Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. English with Shakespeare Studies Full-time

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature	09 27043	40	Full Term

Students should choose one Literature Special Subject module from each of blocks A, B, C and D. Two of these modules must be on topics relevant to Shakespeare Studies. An indicative list of Literature Special Subjects is provided below:

3: BLOCK A

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In	09 37899	20	Semester 2
LH Islamophobia and the Novel	09 30677	20	Semester 1
LH Last Year's Novels	09 26673	20	Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985	09 30635	20	Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies	09 26835	20	Semester 1
LH Studies in Nineteenth-Century Single Author: Oscar Wilde	09 39007	20	Semester 1

4: BLOCK B

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century	09 29639	20	Semester 1
LH Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books	09 37165	20	Semester 2
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin	09 27598	20	Semester 2
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain	09 30727	20	Semester 1
LH Remembering World War One	09 26674	20	Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film	09 37091	20	Semester 2

5: BLOCK C

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Decoding Pop Culture	09 37089	20	Semester 2
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets	09 30616	20	Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From	09 30620	20	Semester 2
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art	09 29643	20	Semester 2
LH Hidden Romanticism	09 36982	20	Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf	09 37163	20	Semester 2

6: BLOCK D

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War	09 30646	20	Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy	09 22837	20	Semester 2
LH Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives	09 37007	20	Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry	09 29542	20	Semester 2
LH The Social Life of Literature	09 34875	20	Semester 2

Students may apply to undertake a placement module in their final year. If successful, they will take this module in place of one of their semester 1 options. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Professional Skills	09 36876	20	Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance	09 37013	20	Semester 1

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy	09 38933	20	Semester 1