Program structure
Year 1
In your first year, you will take the following compulsory modules.
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Module title
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Credits
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Explorations in Literature
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30 credits
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Approaches to Text
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30 credits
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Introduction to Poetry
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15 credits
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The Short Story
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15 credits
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You will also choose two of the following option modules:
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Module title
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Credits
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Introduction to US Literature and Culture: America and its Discontents
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15 credits
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Introduction to Comparative Literature
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15 credits
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Understanding Language in Use
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15 credits
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Year 2
In your second year, you will study the following compulsory module
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Module title
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Credits
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Literature and Power in the Victorian Period
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30 credits
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You will also choose three modules (totalling 90 credits) from a range characterised by wide literary, historical, and contextual scope, of which at least one must encompass pre-1800 literature.
Modules may vary from year to year, but recent modules have included the following.
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Module title
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Credits
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Drama and Transgression: From Prometheus to Faust
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30 credits
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Inventing the Nation: American Literature in the mid-19th Century
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30 credits
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Literary London, 1800 to 1900
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30 credits
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Literature of the Later Middle Ages: Society and the Individual
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30 credits
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Moderns
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30 credits
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Old English
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30 credits
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Post-Victorian English Literature
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30 credits
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18th-Century Literature
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30 credits
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Sensibility and Romanticism: Revolutions in Writing and Society
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30 credits
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Shakespeare
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30 credits
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Sociolinguistics: Language use, Variation, and Identity
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15 credits
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Contemporary Arab Migrant Writing
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15 credits
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Aspects of the Novel
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15 credits
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Work Placement (English)
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15 credits
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Discourse and Society
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15 credits
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(Re)writing America: from the nineteenth century to the present day
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30 credits
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Language Learning
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15 credits
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Language Teaching
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15 credits
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Year 3
You choose modules to the value of 90 credits.
Modules may vary from year to year, but recent examples have included:
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Module title
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Credits
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Caribbean Women Writers
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30 credits
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Creating the Text
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30 credits
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Decadence
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30 credits
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The Emergence of Modern America: American Literature 1890–1940
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30 credits
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Approaches to Language and the Media
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15 credits
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Modern American Fiction
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30 credits
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Modern Poetry
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30 credits
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Modernism & Drama (1880-1930)
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30 credits
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The Art of the Novel
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30 credits
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Oedipus: Myths, Tragedies and Theories
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30 credits
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Postcolonial Literatures in English
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30 credits
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Studies in Literature and Film
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30 credits
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Renaissance Worlds
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30 credits
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Narratives of the Great War (1923-1933)
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15 credits
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Work Placement (English)
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15 credits
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Professional Communication
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30 credits
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Word Power: How words are born, live, and die
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15 credits
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Language and Gender
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15 credits
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