Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session

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

Year: 4
2026/27 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
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

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

English Literature 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 Boring Beyond Belief?: Uncreative Writing	09 38978	20	Semester 1
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

Digital Media and Communications modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution	09 32240	20	Semester 2
LH Discourse and Society	09 19622	20	Semester 2
LH Movements, Media and Society	09 39936	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.

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