Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. English Language and Literature Full-time

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

Students should choose 40 credits from the following:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature	09 27043	40	Full Term
LH Extended Essay in English Literature	09 27042	20	Full Term
LH Language Dissertation	09 26703	40	Full Term
LH Language Investigation	09 26704	20	Full Term

Students should choose 40 credits from the English Language Special Subjects list and 40 credits from the English Literature Special Subjects list. Indicative lists are provided below.

English Literature:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War	09 30646	20	Semester 2
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 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 Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy	09 22837	20	Semester 2
LH Flourish for the Players (Shakespeare's Contemporaries)	09 30631	20	Semester 1
LH Hidden Romanticism	09 36982	20	Semester 2
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In	09 37899	20	Semester 2
LH Islamophobia and the Novel	09 30677	20	Semester 1
LH Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives	09 37007	20	Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels	09 26673	20	Semester 1
LH Law and Literature	09 24813	20	Semester 2
LH Literature at Sea: 1851 to present	09 30632	20	Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain	09 30727	20	Semester 1
LH Modern American Poetry	09 29542	20	Semester 2
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985	09 30635	20	Semester 2
LH Neo-Victorianism	09 30678	20	Semester 1
LH Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny	09 32236	20	Semester 2
LH Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions	09 27596	20	Semester 1
LH Postcolonial Poetry and Poetics	09 35381	20	Semester 1
LH Remembering World War One	09 26674	20	Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies	09 26835	20	Semester 1
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf	09 37163	20	Semester 2
LH Studies in Nineteenth-Century Single Author: Oscar Wilde	09 39007	20	Semester 1
LH The Social Life of Literature	09 34875	20	Semester 2
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film	09 37091	20	Semester 2
LM Minds, Bodies and Medicine	09 34840	20	Semester 1

English Language:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH A Common Language? English in the U.K. and the U.S.A. (and beyond)	09 31802	20	Semester 2
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution	09 32240	20	Semester 1
LH Business Discourse and Communication	09 31805	20	Semester 2
LH English Language Teaching	09 19606	20	Semester 1
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity	09 28649	20	Semester 1
LH Language Change	09 29697	20	Semester 2
LH Language and the Mind	09 26649	20	Semester 2
LH Narratives across Media	09 36984	20	Semester 1
LH Phraseology	09 29572	20	Semester 1

Students may apply to undertake a placement in their final year. If successful, they will take this module in place of one of their semester 1 options. 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.

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