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BA English Literature, Journalism and Media

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English language and literature
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
PQ53
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)

About this course

BA in English Language and Literature and Journalism, combining literary studies with media and journalism. Core topics include Research Methods and Marketing. The degree is jointly delivered across two schools, with journalism modules covering mass communication, media power, and political communication, and literature modules spanning from medieval to contemporary periods.

Modules

  • History of Mass Communication and Culture
  • Media Scholarship
  • Understanding Journalism Studies
  • Reading Up Close
  • Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
  • Writing at University and Beyond
  • Shakespeare's Worlds
  • Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
  • Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
  • Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
  • Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
  • Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
  • Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
  • Feminisms
  • Literature, Science and Environment
  • Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
  • Race, Empire, Nation
  • A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
  • Media, Power and Society
  • Mediation of Political Violence
  • Yr Ystafell Newyddion 1
  • Public Relations and Political Communication
  • Media Fandom
  • Employability: Knowledge, Skills & Experience
  • Red Penned: Censorship and Resistance in Contemporary Arts Activism
  • Media, Gender and Sexuality
  • Fashion Brand Management
  • Cyflwyniad i'r Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol
  • Regulating the Digital World
  • War, Politics and Propaganda II
  • Doing Media Research: Approaches and Methods
  • Media Law Year 2
  • Literature for All
  • Dissertation
  • Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
  • Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
  • Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
  • Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
  • Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
  • Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
  • The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
  • Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
  • The Making and Shaping of News
  • Spin Unspun: Public Relations and The News Media
  • The Creative and Cultural Industries
  • Sport and the Media
  • Communicating Causes
  • Palu am y Gwir
  • Stori Pwy? Cyfathrebu Cymru
  • Media, Money and Markets
  • Screening Locations
  • (Me) me, Myself and I:The Power and Politics of Digital Remix Culture and Online Inequalities
  • Visual Communication and Design
  • Clothing Matters: Global Fashion Cultures and Politics