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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. English Literature with Philosophy Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 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:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term
LH Philosophical Project 08 27860 40 Full Term

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 Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
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 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 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

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 1
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 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
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