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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. English Literature with Film Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

Students must choose one of the following independent study modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term
LH Film Production Project 09 30584 40 Full Term
LH Film Studies Dissertation 09 30946 40 Full Term

Students may choose one of the following module combinations Optional modules: Choice 1: 60 credits in Film and 60 credits in English Literature. Option A: Film Studies Dissertation or Film Production Project, one Film module, three English Literature modules Option B: English Literature Dissertation, one English Literature module, three Film modules. Optional modules: Choice 2: 80 credits in English Literature and 40 credits in Film Option C: English Literature Dissertation, two English Literature modules, two Film modules Optional modules: Choice 3: 80 credits in Film and 40 credits in English Literature Option D: Film Studies Dissertation or Film Production Project, two Film modules, two English Literature modules Optional modules: Students must take two modules in each semester It is only possible to take one English Literature module from any particular block of modules. Optional modules: Students must complete a minimum of 40 credits in both Film and English Literature. Optional modules: It is not permitted to complete only 40 credits of independent study in a discipline.

Film Special Subjects:

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 Screen Performance 09 35225 20 Semester 1
LH Screenwriting: Film 09 35175 20 Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects Block A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Paradise Lost: Text and context 09 21681 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1

English Literature Special Subjects Block B

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 20 Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 09 37091 20 Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects Block C

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art 09 29643 20 Semester 1
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 1
LH Law and Literature 09 24813 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects Block D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 09 30646 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
LH Muslim Women's Popular Fiction 09 31944 20 Semester 2
LH Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century 09 28666 20 Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook 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
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1