Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. Drama and English Literature with Year in Civic Leadership Full-time

Year: 2
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Texts in Rehearsal	10 37840	20	Semester 1

Students should choose one of the following pathways:
Pathway 1: 60 credits in Drama and 60 credits in English Literature
Students must choose one semester 1 Drama option, one semester 2 Drama option, one semester 1 English Literature option and two semester 2 English Literature options.

Pathway 2: 60 credits in Drama and 60 credits in English Literature
Students must choose two semester 2 Drama options, two semester 1 English Literature options and one semester 2 English Literature option.

Pathway 3: 40 credits in Drama and 80 credits in English Literature
Students must choose one semester 2 Drama option, two semester 1 English Literature options and two semester 2 English Literature options.

Pathway 4: 80 credits in Drama and 40 credits in English Literature
Pathway 4: LI Performance Lab (37843) must be taken.
Students must choose one semester 1 Drama option, one semester 2 Drama option, one semester 1 English Literature option and one semester 2 English Literature option.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Performance Lab	10 37843	20	Semester 2

Drama Options:

Semester 1:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Approaches to Acting	10 37836	20	Semester 1
LI Immersion & Interactivity in Performance	09 34882	20	Semester 1
LI Performance and Nation	09 30683	20	Semester 1
LI Popular Performance	09 25150	20	Semester 1

Semester 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Approaches to Acting	09 37850	20	Semester 2
LI British Theatre	10 29000	20	Semester 2
LI Politics, Crisis and Performance	10 36198	20	Semester 2

English Literature options:
A maximum of one module from any block can be taken.

Block A:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Gothic	09 39923	20	Semester 1
LI Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture	09 39935	20	Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan	09 39982	20	Semester 1

Block B:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature	09 39915	20	Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present	09 36230	20	Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution	09 36228	20	Semester 1

Block C:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Earliest English	09 37686	20	Semester 1
LI Reading the Renaissance	09 39840	20	Semester 1
LI The Canterbury Tales	09 29579	20	Semester 1

Block D:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial	09 39968	20	Semester 2
LI Literature and Environment: Crisis and Resistance	09 39765	20	Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean	09 39983	20	Semester 2

Block E:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Our Digital World	09 39969	20	Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture	09 39768	20	Semester 2
LI The Social Life of Literature	09 38960	20	Semester 2

Block F:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism	09 32447	20	Semester 2
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies	09 39763	20	Semester 2
LI Victorian Literature	09 27776	20	Semester 2