Programmes & Modules Handbook

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

Year: 2
2022/23 Session

Students choose 40-80 credits from the full range of CAHA LI Research Seminars and options including the appropriate level of language (beginners or intermediate or advanced Latin, Greek, Egyptian or Akkadian). If a Research Seminar A and B is selected in semester one this has to be matched with Research Seminar B in semester two. There will be a narrow choice of recommended modules aimed at ensuring core skills and curriculum coherence is maintained.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Advanced Greek 1A	09 33660	10	Semester 1
LI Advanced Greek B	09 33663	10	Semester 2
LI Advanced Latin A	09 33616	10	Semester 1
LI Advanced Latin B	09 33618	10	Semester 2
LI Research Seminar A: Environmental archaeology in the lab	09 36919	10	Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Euripides	09 37093	10	Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Homer and the world of Odysseus	09 36925	10	Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Meet the Greeks	09 36923	10	Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Rhetoric at Rome	09 36936	10	Semester 1
LI Research Seminar B: Environmental Archaeology in the Lab	09 36920	10	Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Euripides	09 37094	10	Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Homer and the world of Odysseus	09 36926	10	Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Meet the Greeks	09 36924	10	Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Rhetoric at Rome	09 36937	10	Semester 2
LI Matrons and Monsters: Women in Rome and Byzantium	09 36039	20	Semester 2
LI Republican and Imperial Rome	09 36038	20	Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. 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 undertaking 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
LI Professional Skills	09 36839	20	Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance	09 37012	20	Semester 1

English Literature Pathway
All students should choose two modules from the Histories of Literature options available, one per semester irrespective of whether they are taking 40, 60 or 80 credits in English Literature. Any restrictions relating to which Histories of Literature modules must be taken together will be provided to students during the module allocation process. An indicative list of Histories of Literature options is provided below:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Critical Encounters with Late Medieval Literature	09 37893	20	Semester 1
LI Decadents and Moderns	09 36227	20	Semester 1
LI Earliest English	09 37686	20	Semester 2
LI Literature 1950-Present	09 36230	20	Semester 2
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel	09 37896	20	Semester 1
LI Renaissance Poetry	09 36225	20	Semester 2
LI Restoration and Revolution	09 36228	20	Semester 2
LI Romantics and Victorians	09 36226	20	Semester 1

Students taking 80 credits in English Literature will be required to take LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan and LI Shakespeare Jacobean in addition to a "Themes in Literature" option.
Students taking 60 credits in English Literature will be required to take EITHER LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan and LI Shakespeare Jacobean OR a "Themes in Literature" option.
An indicative list of ‘Themes in Literature’ options is provided below (parts A & B must be taken together).

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial A	09 33252	10	Semester 1
LI Colonial/Postcolonial B	09 33254	10	Semester 2
LI Digital Futures A	09 33258	10	Semester 1
LI Digital Futures B	09 33260	10	Semester 2
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies A	09 37157	10	Semester 1
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies B	09 37158	10	Semester 2
LI Public English A	09 33893	10	Semester 1
LI Public English B	09 33894	10	Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture A	09 33266	10	Semester 1
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture B	09 33268	10	Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan	09 33587	10	Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean	09 33588	10	Semester 2
LI The Gothic A	09 33274	10	Semester 1
LI The Gothic B	09 33277	10	Semester 2
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning A	09 33589	10	Semester 1
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning B	09 33590	10	Semester 2
LI Tragedy A	09 33279	10	Semester 1
LI Tragedy B	09 33281	10	Semester 2

English Language Pathway .

For students taking 80 credits in English Language, the following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI English Grammar	09 28743	10	Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists A	09 33889	10	Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists B	09 33891	10	Semester 2
LI English Phonetics and Phonology	09 34881	10	Semester 2

For students taking 60 credits in English Language, the following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI English Grammar	09 28743	10	Semester 1
LI English Phonetics and Phonology	09 34881	10	Semester 2

All students should choose two English Language modules (40 credits) from the list of options available irrespective of whether they are studying 40, 60 or 80 credits in English Language. An indicative list of options is provided below.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Corpus Linguistics	09 29974	20	Semester 2
LI Discourse Analysis	09 27753	20	Semester 1
LI History of the English Language	09 22445	20	Semester 1
LI Language Acquisition and Literacy	09 26651	20	Semester 1
LI Psycholinguistics	09 27523	20	Semester 2
LI Sociolinguistics	09 26680	20	Semester 2