Your tutors will use a variety of teaching methods including lectures, seminars, group tasks and tutorials. These will be backed up by a well-designed support system that ensures you have a successful learning journey in each academic year. You will not only receive extensive feedback but also ‘feed-forward’ as tutors work with you to explore how you can keep improving on previous work.
Our assessment strategy is designed to support student-centred learning, based on our understanding that everyone has different needs, strengths and enthusiasms. Assessments will develop your communication skills while also inspiring you to analyse evidence, pursue original thought and persuade others of your ideas. Assessment methods are engaging and diverse, including essays, exams, critical reviews, and even blogs as well as a final-year dissertation.
A wide range of option modules are offered on this course. To ensure the quality of the student learning experience, some modules are subject to minimum and maximum student numbers.
Modules
Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.
Year one
- EL4001 -Introduction to Literary Studies (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4003 -Representing the US: From Slavery to Terrorism (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4004 -Reading Poetry (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4006 -Concepts in Criticism and Culture (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4016 -Talking Texts (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4017 -Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Core,20 Credits)
- YC5001 -Academic Language Skills for Humanities and Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Year two
- AD5012 -Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit) (Optional,40 Credits)
- EL5003 -Early Modern Cultures (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5004 -Modernism and Modernity (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5005 -Geneses of English Literature (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL5006 -Poetry: Tradition and Experiment (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL5008 -Tragedy (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL5009 -Literature and Adaptation (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL5026 -Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5029 -Literature in the Museum: Working in the Heritage Sector (Optional,20 Credits)
- ML5001 -Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder (Optional,20 Credits)
- TE5507 -Student Tutoring (Optional,20 Credits)
Year three
- AD5009 -Humanities Work Placement Year (Optional,120 Credits)
- AD5010 -Humanities Study Abroad Year (Optional,120 Credits)
- AT5004 -Year in International Business (This is made up of modules studied in Newcastle (Semester 1) & Amsterdam (Semester 2)(Optional,120 Credits)
- AT5007 -Year in International Multidisciplinary Innovation (4 modules studied in Amsterdam (Semester 1) & Newcastle (Semester 2) (Optional,120 Credits)
Year four
- EL6001 -English Dissertation (Core,40 Credits)
- EL6004 -Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6007 -Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6018 -The Black Atlantic: Literature, Slavery and Race (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6042 -Postwar US Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6047 -Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6049 -From Jane Austen to Austenland: Representing the Regency in Literature and Film (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6050 -Making Books (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6053 -Writing Women: Aphra Behn in Focus (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6055 -Writing and Environment (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6057 -Thieves, Harlots, Pirates, Murderers: Criminal Lives in the Long Eighteenth Century (Optional,20 Credits)
- YC5001 -Academic Language Skills for Humanities and Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
