Course Content
Year 1
English
- Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
- Approaches to Literature II: Other Worlds
- Key Concepts: An Introduction to Genre, Theory, and Writing
Politics
Your modules in Politics cover topics such as:
Core module
- What is Politics?
Option modules
- Introduction to Democratic Politics
- Introduction to International Politics
- Introduction to Political Theory
Year 2
Core modules
- Research Now
Option modules
You will also study five option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
- The Renaissance
- Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
- Victorians: British Literature, 1832-1901
- Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
You'll also be able to choose subjects included in our World Literature modules. Recent offerings have included:
- An Introduction to Greek and Latin Literatures
- European New Cinema
- French Poetry 1844-1898
- The Literature of Hispanic America
- Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
- Muslim Translations of Britain
- Old Norse Literature
- The World of Beowulf
Politics
- Democracy and Struggles for Social Justice
- Empire, War and Law
- Politics in the United Kingdom
- State, Economy, and Society
- The European Union: Politics and Policies
- The Politics of Development
- The Rising Powers
- The United States and Global Politics After the Cold War
- War and Peace
Year 3
Core modules
- Year-long Dissertation Module
Option modules
You will also study three option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
English
- American Independent Film
- The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture
- Charles Dickens
- Fashion in the 18th Century
- Found in Translation
- From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages & Modern Literature from 1843 - 1940
- Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
- Modernism's Queer Spaces
- Poetry Boot Camp
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Fiction
- Researching the Renaissance
- So Funny it Hurts: Irish Comic Fiction
- Villains of the Romantic Gothic
- The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
Politics
- Knowledge and Democracy
- Political Psychology and Public Opinion
- Border Politics: Contemporary Perspectives on Sovereignty, Mobility and Citizenship
- British Foreign Policy after the Cold War
- Regionalism in World Politics
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Governing the Global Economy
- ‘We the people’: Ideas of Democratic Representation from Rousseau to Occupy
- Karl Marx
- Policy Analysis in Theory and Practice
- Global Sustainability and Energy Policy
- Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict
- Africa and International Politics
- From War to Peace: Statebuilding and Political Transition in South East Asia
