We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2022/23. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
We’ll do our best to provide as much optional choice as we can, but timetabling constraints mean it may not be possible to take some module combinations. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what’s shown below.
Year 1
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Autumn teaching
- Acts of Writing 1
- Critical Approaches 1
- From Sounds to Words
Spring teaching
- Acts of Writing 2
- Critical Approaches 2
- From Words to Interaction
Year 2
You choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.
While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
Year 3
Autumn teaching
- Advanced Topics in Discourse and Interaction
- Advanced Topics in Language Structure, Variation and Change
- Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
- Islam, Literature and the 'West'
- Posthuman/Premodern
- Research Proposal (English Language)
- Special Author: Samuel Beckett
- Special Author: Virginia Woolf
- Special Author: William Blake
- Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
- Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
Spring teaching
- Championing Literacy Placement
- Child Language Acquisition
- Class, Culture and Contemporary Writing
- Crisis, Revolution, Modernity
- Decolonisation, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Global South
- Dissertation (ENGLISH)
- Forensic Linguistics
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- History of English
- Language and Gender
- Novel Theory
- Phonology
- Queer Literatures
- Research Dissertation (English Language)
- School Placement Project
- Semantics
