Programme Requirements for 2023/24 Session


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B.A. English and Film Full-time

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

Students should choose one of the following:

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 should choose 80 credits from those modules available in the English and Film Special Subjects. A maximum of 80 credits may be taken in a single discipline (including independent study). The modules listed below are indicative of what may be available.
A minimum of 20 credits of Special Subjects must be taken in both Film and English.
It is not possible to take more than one English Special Subject from a particular block.
Indicative lists of modules are provided below.

Film

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 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 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 Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1
LH Studies in Nineteenth-Century Single Author: Oscar Wilde 09 39007 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 1
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 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 2
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 2
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 Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives 09 37007 20 Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
LH The Social Life of Literature 09 34875 20 Semester 2

Professional Skills 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.
Students undertaking a Professional Skills module must also take at least one Film Special Subject and at least one English Literature Special Subject.
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 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

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