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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. English Literature with Digital Media and Communications with Semester Abroad Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

Students must choose one of the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Digital Media and Communications Project 09 38660 40 Full Term
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term

Students may choose one of the following module combinations:

Choice 1: 60 credits in Digital Media and Communications and 60 credits in English Literature
Option A: Digital Media and Communications Project, one Digital Media and Communications module, three English Literature modules
Option B: English Literature Dissertation, one English Literature module, three Digital Media and Communications modules

Choice 2: 80 credits in English Literature and 40 credits in Digital Media and Communications
Option C: English Literature Dissertation, two English Literature modules, two Digital Media and Communications modules

Choice 3: 80 credits in Digital Media and Communications and 40 credits in English Literature Option D: Digital Media and Communications Project, two Digital Media and Communications modules, two English Literature modules

Students must take two modules in each semester

It is only possible to take one English Literature module from any particular block of modules

Students must complete a minimum of 40 credits in both Digital Media and Communications and English Literature

Students may choose one Employability module in place of one of their option modules.

English Literature BLOCK A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2

English Literature BLOCK A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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

English Literature 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 Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 20 Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 09 37091 20 Semester 2

English Literature BLOCK C

English Literature BLOCK C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Decoding Pop Culture 09 37089 20 Semester 2
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets 20 Semester 2
Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From 09 30620 20 Semester 2

English Literature BLOCK C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art 09 36923 20 Semester 1
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 1
LH Law and Literature 09 24813 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 36938 20 Semester 2

English Literature BLOCK D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 09 37094 20 Semester 2

English Literature BLOCK D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Boring Beyond Belief?: Uncreative Writing 09 36924 20 Semester 1

English Literature BLOCK D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 36939 20 Semester 2

English Literature BLOCK D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Modern American Poetry 09 27258 20 Semester 2

English Literature 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

Digital Media and Communications modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 38789 20 Semester 2

Digital Media and Communications modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Discourse and Society 09 19622 20 Semester 2
LH Movements, Media and Society 09 38823 20  

Students may 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.

Students take 40-80 credits from any of the CAHA modules including Research Skills Seminar A and B (10+10). The list of these will be provided by the Department and differs year by year.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 28688 20 Semester 1

Students may 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 - Freelance 09 37804 20 Semester 1