Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Body Politics – 40 credits
- Global Identities – 20 credits
- Popular Culture: Spies, Dragons, Time Machines – 20 credits
- The Short Story: Murder, Madness and Experimentation – 20 credits
- Unpacking Texts: Introducing Critical Theory – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Literary Prizes and Public Acclaim – 20 credits
- Research in Practice – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Bloody Shakespeare: the Politics and Poetics of Violence – 20 credits
- Crime Writing – 20 credits
- Digital Cultures: Exploring the Digital in The Humanities and Social Sciences – 20 credits
- Dystopian and Apocalyptic Environments: Ecocrisis in the Literary Imagination – 20 credits
- Learning from Experience – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature – 20 credits
- Space, Place and Being – 20 credits
- Study Abroad – 60 credits
- Women's Writing in the Americas – 20 credits
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Optional modules
- Dissertation / Major Project – 40 credits
- Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture – 20 credits
- Holocaust Literatures – 20 credits
- Magical Realism – 20 credits
- Neo-Historical Fiction – 20 credits
- Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction – 20 credits
- US Masculinities – 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits
- Major Project – 40 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Dissertation (English Literature) – 40 credits
