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Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.A. English Literature and Classical Literature and Civilisation with Year in Sustainability Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

The University Regulations permit 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 undertake less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree.

Students must choose ONE of the following Independent Study modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
CAHA Dissertation 09 26194 40 Full Term
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27512 40 Full Term

Students taking 60 credits in CAHA and 60 credits in English Literature

CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 PLUS the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation
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
OR
CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 PLUS the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation. English Literature: ONE semester 1 option from EITHER Block A OR Block B AND ONE semester 2 option from Block C, ONE semester 2 option from Block D.
OR
CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional option in Semester 2 AND TWO co-requisite 20-credit Special Subject options to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester).
English Literature: ONE semester 1 option from EITHER Block A OR Block B PLUS the 40 credit English Literature Dissertation
OR
CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 AND TWO co-requisite 20-credit Special Subject options to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester). English Literature: ONE semester 2 option from EITHER Block C OR Block D PLUS the 40 credit English Literature Dissertation
OR
40 credit Link Dissertation CAHA: Students choose 40 credits of options (20 in each semester).
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
OR
40 credit Link Dissertation (20 credits in each department) CAHA: Students choose TWO co-requisite Special Subject options to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester).
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

Students taking 80 credits in CAHA and 40 credits in English Literature

CAHA: Students choose 40 credits of options (20 in each semester) PLUS the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation

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

OR

CAHA: Students choose TWO co-requisite Special Subject options to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester) PLUS the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation.
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

Students taking 40 credits in CAHA and 80 credits in English Literature

CAHA: Students choose 40 credits of options (20 in each semester).

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 PLUS the 40 credit English Literature Dissertation
OR
CAHA: Students choose TWO co-requisite Special Subject options to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester).

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 PLUS the 40 credit English Literature Dissertation

CAHA Optional Modules:
This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Age of Empires 09 27256 20 Semester 1
LH Death, Burial and Society 09 24039 20 Semester 2
LH Face to face with Egypt’s Gods 09 32026 20 Semester 1
LH Greek Mythology 09 27276 20 Semester 2
LH Hellenistic Literature 09 29632 20 Semester 1
LH Humans and Environments 09 23536 20 Semester 2
LH Love in Greek Literature 09 28093 20 Semester 1
LH War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Roman World 09 30686 20 Semester 1
Sparta 09 22891 20 Semester 2

CAHA Special Subjects A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject A: Carthage and Rome 09 37472 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World 09 37452 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Democracy and Empire: The World of the Athenian archē 09 37454 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Far-flung corners: being Roman in the late Roman world, c. 200-c.550 09 37460 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Greek Epigram 09 37458 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Greeks and Barbarians 09 37474 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: How to build an Empire: Communication and Conflict (-Resolution) 09 37464 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Performance Culture in the Ancient World 09 37889 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Rethinking the Romans 09 40492 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Ritual and Religion: performance, materiality and belief 09 37462 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: The Roman Republic in Imperial Imagination 09 37467 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: The Spartan kosmos 545-371 BCE 09 37469 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Wonderful things: an introduction to ancient Egyptian art and architecture 09 37456 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Living and dying in wetlands 09 37369 20 Semester 1

CAHA Special Subjects B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject B: Carthage and Rome 09 37473 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World 09 37453 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Democracy and Empire: The World of the Athenian archē 09 37455 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Far-flung corners: being Roman in the late Roman world, c. 200-c.550 09 37461 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Greek Epigram 09 37459 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Greeks and Barbarians 09 37475 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: How to build an Empire: Communication and Conflict (-Resolution) 09 37465 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Living and dying in wetlands 09 37371 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Performance Culture in the Ancient World 09 37808 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Rethinking the Romans 09 40494 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Ritual and Religion: performance, materiality and belief 09 37463 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: The Roman Republic in Imperial Imagination 09 37468 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: The Spartan kosmos 545-371 BCE 09 37470 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Wonderful things: an introduction to ancient Egyptian art and architecture 09 37457 20 Semester 2

English Literature Block A: English Literature Block A: This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

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

English Literature Block B: English Literature Block B: This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

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: This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

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: English Literature Block D: This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

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

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