Programme Requirements for 2023/24 Session


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B.A. English and History of Art Full-time

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

Students taking 40 credits of Art History

No compulsory modules

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Fashioning Flesh and Technology: Modernism and the Body in Germany 1918-1933 09 28455 20 Semester 2
LH Image as Witness 09 37034 20 Semester 2

Students taking 60 or 80 credits of Art History Students must take one of the following dissertation modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation (short) - History of Art 10 18557 20 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 28531 40 Full Term

Students taking 40 credits of Art History

Students choose 40 credits of Level H modules provided annually by the department.

Students taking 60 or 80 credits of Art History

Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department to a combined total of 60 or 80 credits.

Depending on the number of credits students opt to take in Art History, optional module choices may be restricted (please refer to the Art History student handbook and module choice information).

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Contemporary Art and Masculinity 09 29705 20 Semester 1
LH Global Art and Cultural Studies 09 29919 20 Semester 2
LH Inside Out: Interior and Interiority in French Art, Design and Culture 1840-1940 10 28862 20 Semester 1
LH Rodin Reconsidered 09 37032 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

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

English Literature Pathway:
Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) Dissertation in English Literature (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules.
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules.

Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Literature must study Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules.

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) 40 credits of optional modules.
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Extended Essay in English Literature 09 27042 20 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27505 40 Full Term

English Literature Special Subjects

Block A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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

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 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

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 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 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 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