Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2024/25 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term

Students without a Creative Practice pathway should choose one Literature Special Subject module from each of blocks A, B, C and D. Students following a Creative Practice pathway should choose one Literature Special Subject module from either block A or B and one Literature Special Subject module from either block C or D in addition to two modules, one per semester, from their chosen pathway. Students may only take a Creative Practice pathway if they have taken that specific pathway at Level I. A list of the pathway modules available will be provided to students during the module allocation process. Creative Practice pathways are available in Creative Writing, Drama, Film and Language. An indicative list of Literature Special Subjects is provided below:

3: BLOCK A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1

4: BLOCK B

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Literature at Sea: 1851 to present 09 30632 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 09 32236 20 Semester 1
LH Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions 09 27596 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Afterlives 09 24790 20 Semester 1
LH Writing/Painting 09 37839 20 Semester 1

5: BLOCK C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Jane Austen’s Fiction 09 39772 20 Semester 2
LH Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing 09 39959 20 Semester 2
LH The Pre-Raphaelite Circle 09 27755 20 Semester 2

6: BLOCK D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Chaucer: Key Works 09 38956 20 Semester 2
LH Daphne du Maurier: Horror, Romance & Obsession 09 39133 20 Semester 2
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2
LH The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700 09 37352 20 Semester 2

Creative Writing pathway:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adaptation: Theory and Practice 09 37837 20 Semester 1
LH Creative Non Fiction 09 29732 20 Semester 1
LH Poetry Film 09 39922 20 Semester 2
LH Sympathetic Texts 09 30731 20 Semester 2
LH The Hatred of Poetry 09 29730 20 Semester 1

Film pathway modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adaptation: Theory and Practice 09 37837 20 Semester 1
LH Children's Film and Television 09 31701 20 Semester 2
LH Film and Television Authorship 09 29109 20 Semester 1
LH Poetry Film 09 39922 20 Semester 2
LH Screenwriting: Film 09 35175 20 Semester 2

English Language pathway:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 32240 20 Semester 2
LH Authorship Analysis 09 30672 20 Semester 2
LH English Language Teaching 09 19606 20 Semester 1
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1

Drama pathway modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Alexander Technique for Performers 10 38068 20 Semester 2
LH Creative Partnerships: Site-based Performance 10 39933 20 Semester 2
LH Experience Design: Approaches to audience activation, inclusion and participation. 10 39919 20 Semester 1
LH Popular Music as Performance 09 30684 20 Semester 2
LH The Creative and Cultural Industries 10 39932 20 Semester 1
LH Victorian Drama 09 25042 20 Semester 1

Students who are not following a Creative Practice Pathway may apply to undertake a placement module 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 may take Sustainable Development in place of either a Block A or Block B module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1