2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English Language and Literature (Part-time)
| Programme code: | BA-PT/ENGL | UCAS code: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 6 Years | Method of Attendance: | Part Time |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
Students transfer onto the BA programme after successful completion of the Certificate in Higher Education in English Language and Literature.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
Lifelong Learning Centre
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of English
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
English
Programme specification:
This is one of the country's most prestigious degrees in English, in one of the UK's most highly rated English departments. There is a large academic staff (over 40 full time), and an annual intake of over 200 students to the Single Honours Programmes).
The Single Honours English Language and Literature programme is distinguished by the wide range of subject areas to which students are exposed, across the whole spread of English Studies. After a compulsory Level 1, the programme allows students a high degree of choice within a structure which ensures that all students are exposed to a range of periods of and genres within English literature, and a range of topics in English Language study. The programme meets the benchmarking requirements for English and English Language. The School enjoys close links with the excellent Brotherton Library and its Special Collections resources, many of which are directly supportive of the study of English Language and Literature.
Programme Aims:
At the end of the programme students should:
In English Language, be able to demonstrate awareness of the following:
- the internal structure of contemporary English, including knowledge of its phonetics and phonology (sound system), morphology, syntax, semantics, lexis and pragmatics;
- have a basic knowledge of the structure of English, and how to apply concepts relating to the structure and history of English to the analysis of texts;
- some of the main ways of analysing English text and discourse, including for example conversation analysis, aspects of stylistics and discourse analysis (including critical discourse analysis);
- some of the main theories of meaning and how meanings are influenced by context and negotiated by speakers;
- the history of English, including its ongoing development;
- key geographical and social determinants of variation in English, including a number of the main regional varieties of English in the British Isles;
- the role of language within the broader field of communication, including its role in constructing individual and group identities;
- how language produces and reflects cultural change and difference;
- the implications of language choices, for example in constructing particular registers and styles;
- the application of these approaches to a range of text types and language contexts.
In English Literature, be able to demonstrate:
- Overall (i.e. skills which run across both English Language & Literature modules, and produce useful dialogue between them) be able to demonstrate:
- an awareness of the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English studies;
- use basic generic and subject-specific qualities, ie, present a structured and coherent simple argument
- have some knowledge of critical terminology
- have some knowledge of linguistic terminology;
- develop critical skills;
- develop analytical skills;
- demonstrate a critical knowledge of the social, political cultural contexts of the English language as a medium for literature; and of how to discuss the style of a literary work in terms of grammar, lexis, and sound;
- demonstrate a critical knowledge of particular and specific literary and language fields, facilitated either through the choice and pursuit of research-led option modules or via the planning and production of a dissertation.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Students MUST study the following compulsory CORE modules:
| ENGL1000 | Studying and Researching English | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL1021 | Analysing English | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Students must choose ONE of the following CORE modules to be studied in semester 2:
| ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1282 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits of Discovery modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Students MUST study the following compulsory CORE module:
| ENGL1022 | English: Context, Culture and Style | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students must choose ONE of the following CORE modules to be studied in semester 1:
| ENGL1191 | Writing Critically | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL1250 | Prose: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits of Discovery modules:
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
CANDIDATES MUST TAKE 120 CREDITS AT LEVEL 2 OVERALL (NORMALLY YEARS 3 & 4) (including at least 100 credits in English).
Compulsory modules:
| ENGL2024 | Language in Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES
Students are required to choose ONE of the following CORE modules in semester 2.
Students can also opt to study one further CORE module OR choose credits from the list of OPTION modules below.
| ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
1. Students CAN choose ONE 20 CREDIT OPTION module from the list below OR
2. Opt to take an additional CORE module from those listed above OR
3. Take 20 credits from modules (Discovery modules) outside of the School of English. Please remember that a MAXIMUM of 20 credits can be taken in modules outside of the School over Year 3 and 4 COMBINED.
| ENGL2025 | Medieval Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2027 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32110 | Students into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32150 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32164 | Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32165 | Text is a Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3245 | Jacobean Drama | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3286 | Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-1922 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32994 | Shakespeare's Histories | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32996 | Byron and the Shelleys | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules at Level 2 (over years 3 & 4 combined).
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
CANDIDATES MUST TAKE 120 CREDITS AT LEVEL 2 OVERALL (NORMALLY YEARS 3 & 4) (including at least 100 credits in English).
Compulsory modules:
| ENGL2023 | Power of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES
Students are required to choose ONE of the following CORE modules in semester 1.
Students can also opt to study one further CORE module OR choose credits from the list of OPTION modules below.
| ENGL2025 | Medieval Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2027 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
1. Students CAN choose ONE 20 CREDIT OPTION module from the list below OR
2. Opt to take an additional CORE module from those listed above OR
3. Take 20 credits from modules (Discovery modules) outside of the School of English. Please remember that a MAXIMUM of 20 credits can be taken in modules outside of the School over Year 3 and 4 COMBINED.
| ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32110 | Students into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32150 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32164 | Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32165 | Text is a Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3245 | Jacobean Drama | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3286 | Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-1922 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32994 | Shakespeare's Histories | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32996 | Byron and the Shelleys | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules at Level 2 (over years 3 & 4 combined).
Year5 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
CANDIDATES MUST TAKE 120 CREDITS AT LEVEL 3 OVERALL (NORMALLY YEARS 5 & 6) (including at least 100 credits in English).
NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules).
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 3:
1. 40 credits of Final Year Project in English Literature or English Language
2. 20 credits of Literature core modules
3. 20 credits of Language option modules
4. EITHER:
(a) 20 credits which must be in Language modules (if chosen English Literature FYP)
OR
(b) 20 credits which must be in Literature modules (if chosen English Language FYP)
5. 20 credits which may be in Language, Literature or Discovery modules
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least 1 of the following core modules in either Semester 1 or Semester 2.
| ENGL3024 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3025 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3026 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students are required to take ONE of the following modules in Semester 1 or Semester 2.
Some option modules give enrolment priority to Level 2 students and may appear reserved until the priority is removed (see School of English Module Handbook for details of the priority timetable for the relevant session).
| ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students may take up to 20 credits (one module) from the following list or 20 credits' worth of Discovery modules (in line with overall programme requirements at Level 3).
If you wish to choose to undertake the Final Year Project in Literature (i.e. not the English Language Dissertation) in Year 6 you must choose AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE module from this list.
If you wish to choose to undertake the English Language Dissertation (i.e. not the Final Year Project in Literature) in Year 6 you must choose AN ENGLISH LITERATURE module from this list.
| ENGL2025 | Medieval Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2027 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3024 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3025 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3026 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32150 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32164 | Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32165 | Text is a Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3245 | Jacobean Drama | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3286 | Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-1922 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32994 | Shakespeare's Histories | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32996 | Byron and the Shelleys | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3384 | ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Disability, Medicine and Normalcy in Contemporary Literatures | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3395 | T.S. Eliot | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3398 | Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3439 | States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3560 | James Joyce's "Ulysses" | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules at Level 3 (over years 5 & 6 combined).
Year6 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
CANDIDATES MUST TAKE 120 CREDITS AT LEVEL 3 OVERALL (NORMALLY YEARS 5 & 6) (including at least 100 credits in English).
NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules).
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 3:
1. 40 credits of Final Year Project in English Literature or English Language
2. 20 credits of Literature core modules
3. 20 credits of Language option modules
4. EITHER:
(a) 20 credits which must be in Language modules (if chosen English Literature FYP)
OR
(b) 20 credits which must be in Literature modules (if chosen English Language FYP)
5. 20 credits which may be in Language, Literature or Discovery modules
Optional modules:
Students are required to take ONE of the following modules:
| ENGL3022 | English Language Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students may take up to 20 credits (one module) from the following list or 20 credits' worth of Discovery modules (in line with overall programme requirements at Level 3).
If you have chosen to undertake the Final Year Project in Literature (i.e. not the English Language Dissertation) you must choose AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE module from this list.
If you have chosen to undertake the English Language Dissertation (i.e. not the Final Year Project in Literature) you must choose AN ENGLISH LITERATURE module from this list.
| ENGL2025 | Medieval Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2027 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3024 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3025 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3026 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32150 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32164 | Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32165 | Text is a Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3245 | Jacobean Drama | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3286 | Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-1922 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL32994 | Shakespeare's Histories | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32996 | Byron and the Shelleys | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3384 | ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Disability, Medicine and Normalcy in Contemporary Literatures | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3395 | T.S. Eliot | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
| ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3398 | Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3439 | States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3560 | James Joyce's "Ulysses" | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
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