Course Content
First year
Block 1: Approaches to Reading and Writing
Block 2: Introduction to the Novel
Block 3: Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare OR you can select to study one route from the list below:
- Creative Writing route – Writers Salon
- Drama route – Shifting Stages
- Education route – Childhood, Social Justice and Education
- English Language route - Evolving Language
- Film Studies route – Disney, Warner Bros and the Business of the Film Studio
- History route – Global Cities
- Journalism route – Understanding Journalism
- Media route - Media, Culture and Society
Block 4: Poetry and Society
Second year
Block 1: Exploration and Innovation: 14th Century to 18th Century Literature
Block 2: Romantic and Victorian Literature
Block 3: Text Technologies OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
- Creative Writing route – Story Craft
- Drama route – Theatre Revolutions
- Education route – Preparing for Professional Practice and Cultural and Educational Transformations
- English Language route - Sociolinguistics
- Film Studies route – Screen Archives - Preservation, Conservation and Usage
- History route – Humans and the Natural World
- Journalism route – Beyond News: Peace journalism and Opinion Writing
- Media route – Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Block 4: Screen and Literary Adaptations of The Classics
Third year
Year Long: Dissertation
Block 2: Remediating Texts
Block 3: World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
- Creative Writing route – Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
- Drama route – Performance, Identity and Activism
- Education route – Adult Learners and Lifelong Learning OR Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning OR Gender and Education
- English Language route – Language and Identity
- Film Studies route – British Cinema - Creativity, Independents and Interdependence
- History route – The World on Display
- Journalism route – Music, Film and Entertainment Journalism
- Media route – Gender and TV Fictions
Block 4: Modernism and Magazines
