Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session

B.A. English Literature with Philosophy with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

The University’s Enhanced Curriculum Framework permits students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who complete less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree.

Students choose 80 credits in Philosophy and/or in English Literature. The lists below are indicative.
Students must choose a 40-credit Dissertation.
Students choose 80-credits of optional modules.

Students must take a minimum of 40-credits in Philosophy and a minimum of 40-credits in English Literature.

Students may take a Professional Skills Module in place of 20-credits of optional modules in semester 1.

It is not permitted to only take a Dissertation in one subject. Students must take 40-credits of optional modules in each semester.

Students must take either:

POLSIS Dissertation:

Students taking 80 credits in English Literature and 40 credits in Philosophy
English Literature: 40 credit English Literature Dissertation, one semester 1 option from either Block A or Block B and one semester 2 option from either Block C or Block D
Philosophy: one semester 1 option and 1 semester 2 option

Students taking 60 credits in English Literature and 60 credits in Philosophy:
EITHER
English Literature: 40 credit English Literature Dissertation and one semester 1 option from either Block A or Block B
Philosophy: one semester 1 option and two semester 2 options
OR
English Literature: 40 credit English Literature Dissertation and one semester 2 option from either Block C or Block D
Philosophy: two semester 1 options and one semester 2 option
OR
English Literature: one semester 1 option from Block A, one semester 1 option from Block B and one semester 2 option from either Block C or Block D
Philosophy: 40 credit Philosophy dissertation and one semester 2 option
OR
English Literature: one semester 1 option from either Block A or Block B, one semester 2 option from Block C and one semester 2 option from Block D
Philosophy: 40 credit Philosophy dissertation and one semester 1 option

Students taking 40 credits in English Literature and 80 credits in Philosophy:
English Literature: one semester 1 option from either Block A or Block B and one semester 2 option from either Block C or Block D
Philosophy: 40 credit Philosophy dissertation, one semester 1 option and one semester 2 option.

English Literature Special Subjects (it is not possible to take more than one English Literature Special Subject from a particular block)

Block A:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature	08 30182	40	Full Term

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel		20	Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects (it is not possible to take more than one English Literature Special Subject from a particular block)

Block A:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Last Year's Novels	09 26673	20	Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985	09 30635	20	Semester 1
LH Paradise Lost: Text and context	09 21681	20	Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies	09 26835	20	Semester 1

Block 2:

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	08 36016	20	Semester 2

Block 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin	08 36018	20	Semester 2

Block 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain	08 37823	20	Semester 2

Block 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Remembering World War One	09 26674	20	Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation	08 36026	20	Semester 1

Block 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film	08 37824	20	Semester 2

Block C:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Decoding Pop Culture	08 37825	20	Semester 2

Block C:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets	08 27327	20	Semester 2

Block C:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From	08 37822	20	Semester 2

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art	08 36029	20	Semester 1

Block C:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Hidden Romanticism	09 36982	20	Semester 1
LH Law and Literature	09 24813	20	Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf	09 37163	20	Semester 2

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		20	Semester 2

Block D:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Modern American Poetry	08 23487	20	Semester 2

Block D:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Muslim Women's Popular Fiction	09 31944	20	Semester 2
LH Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century	09 28666	20	Semester 1

Philosophy:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Bodies and Beauty	09 30158	20	Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and How to Understand them: Topics in Philosophy of Biology	09 30840	20	Semester 1
LH It’s About Time!	09 30950	20	Semester 2
LH Just War	09 29256	20	Semester 1
LH Nietzsche	09 26095	20	Semester 1
LH Philosophy of Mathematics	09 26094	20	Semester 2
LH Reason and Belief	09 31431	20	Semester 2
LH Social Justice	09 30837	20	Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. 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. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

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