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Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English Literature Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

Students must choose three modules per semester. Core modules: At least one Shakespeare module must be taken. Core modules: At least four English Literature modules, including Shakespeare, must be taken.

At least four English Literature modules, including

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism 09 32447 20 Semester 2
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 2
LI Earliest English 09 37686 20 Semester 1
LI Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature 09 39915 20 Semester 1
LI Gothic 09 39923 20 Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 1
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel 09 37896 20 Semester 1
LI Reading the Renaissance 09 39840 20 Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 2
LI The Social Life of Literature 09 38960 20 Semester 2

Students are able to follow a pathway in one of the following disciplines through stages 2 and 3: • Creative Writing • Film • English Language Optional modules: Students who choose to follow a pathway are required to take two modules in their chosen pathway at stage 2, one module in semester 1 and one module in semester 2. Students who choose to follow a pathway at stage 2 are not required to continue studying their chosen pathway at stage 3. Optional modules: Students who do not follow a pathway at stage 2 will be unable to follow a pathway at stage 3. Optional modules: It is not permissible to change pathway between stages 2 and 3. Optional modules: Students not following a pathway may choose one Employability module.

Creative Writing pathway modules

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial 09 39968 20 Semester 2
LI Drama and Media Writing 09 20339 20 Semester 1
LI Editing: Theory & Practice 09 20338 20 Semester 2
LI Identity and Cultural Narratives 09 39644 20 Semester 2
LI Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture 09 39935 20 Semester 1
LI Our Digital World 09 39969 20 Semester 2

Film pathway modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Film Genre 09 32249 20 Semester 2
LI Film Theory and Criticism 09 32253 20 Semester 1
LI Identity and Cultural Narratives 09 39644 20 Semester 2

English Language pathway modules

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Corpus Linguistics 09 29974 20 Semester 2
LI Discourse Analysis 09 27753 20 Semester 1
LI History of the English Language 09 22445 20 Semester 1
LI Language Acquisition and Literacy 09 26651 20 Semester 1
LI Psycholinguistics 09 27523 20 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan 09 39982 20 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean 09 39983 20 Semester 2
LI Sociolinguistics 09 26680 20 Semester 2

Students not following a pathway may choose one Employability module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Semester Abroad at level I. This must be undertaken in semester 2

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI EDACS Semester Abroad 09 26985 60 Semester 2