BA English with Study in North America

at University of Exeter

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Approaches to Criticism

• Beginnings: English Literature before 1800

• The Poem

• Academic English
   

Year 2
 

Year Abroad in North American Institution - 120 credits of compulsory modules
 

You will take the number of modules usually required of students in an academic year at the host university. Two must be in North American literature and/or culture, and at least 75% of your studies must be in English or American literature and culture. The marks for the year's work will count as 120 credits towards the degree result. For each of the two semesters spent abroad, the average of the semester's marks will be treated as a single 60-credit module mark.

Compulsory modules

• North American Study Term 1

• North American Study Term 2
   

Year 3
 

30 credits of compulsory dissertation modules, 30-60 credits of compulsory English modules, 30-60 credits of compulsory American modules and 0-30 optional modules (subject to taking 120 credits overall).
 

•  You must select either EAS3003: Dissertation or EAS3122: Creative writing Dissertation (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).

•  You must select 30-60 credits from this list of English modules.
   

 You must select 30-60 credits from this list of compulsory American modules.

Compulsory modules

• Dissertation

• Creative Writing Dissertation

• Life and Death in Early Modern Literature

• Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation

• Citizens of the World

• American Independent Film

• Something to See: War and Visual Media

• Literature/Anti-Literature

• American Modern

• Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present

• Poison, Filth, Trash: Modernism, Censorship and Resistance