Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. English Language and Literature Full-time

Year: 2
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Stylistics	09 39769	20	Semester 2
LI The Structure of English	09 40000	20	Semester 1

Students taking 80 credits in English Language and 40 credits in English Literature:
Students choose one English Language and one English Literature module in each semester

Students taking 60 credits in English Language and 60 credits in English Literature
Either:
Students choose one English Language module in semester 1, one English Literature module in semester 1, two English Literature modules in semester 2
OR
Students choose two English Literature modules in semester 1 , one English Language module in semester 2, one English Literature module in semester 2

Students taking 40 credits in English Language and 80 credits in English Literature Students choose two English Literature in each semester

LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists can only be taken as an option for students taking 80 credits in English Language

English Language modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Data Skills for the Digital World	09 39274	20	Semester 2
LI Discourse Analysis	09 27753	20	Semester 1
LI History of the English Language	09 22445	20	Semester 1
LI Language Education and Literacy	09 39771	20	Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists	09 39999	20	Semester 2
LI Psycholinguistics	09 27523	20	Semester 2
LI Sociolinguistics	09 26680	20	Semester 2

English Literature modules:
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 British Theatre	10 29000	20	Semester 2
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