BA English and Media & Communications
About this course
BA in English and Media & Communications, an English and Film Studies degree centred on the study of literature alongside media theory and industry practices. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Design & Creative Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students have access to specialist campus facilities including archives, a cinema museum, and a digital laboratory. The first year establishes foundational knowledge through compulsory modules such as Beginnings: English Literature before 1800, Perspectives on Communications, and Communications Research Methods, alongside options covering digital cultures, poetry, and narrative forms. The second year builds practical experience through Communications in the Workplace, which involves undertaking structured work placements with media professionals. Optional modules across the course allow students to specialise in diverse areas such as professional writing, media law, creative writing, renaissance literature, and modernism, with opportunities to engage with live industry projects and cultural contexts.
Modules
- Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
- Perspectives on Communications
- Communications Research Methods
- Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry
- The Novel
- The Poem
- Academic English
- Rethinking Shakespeare
- Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
- Communications in the Workplace
- Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640
- Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England
- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Renaissance and Revolution
- Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750
- Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings
- Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960
- Romanticism
- Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Creative Writing: Building a Story
- Creative Writing: Making a Poem
- British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory
- Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World
- Professional Writing
- Internet Foundations and Frontiers
- Design Thinking
- Communications and the Climate Crisis
- Communications in the 21st Century
- Media and the Law: Regulation, Governance, Ethics
- Media Production
- Politics and the Media