BA English Literature,
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBC IB: 32 points
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature, exploring texts from medieval to modern periods. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme includes modules in creative writing, literary theory, and American literature, alongside discourse analysis and visual culture. Modules span from the Greek romance to modernism, with options in Gothic texts, gender studies, and Shakespeare.
Modules
- Theorising Gothic Texts
- Discovering Literature
- Who Sings America? Literature and Culture of the United States
- Approaches to Gender in English Literature
- Premodern Voices
- Fundamentals of Creative Writing I
- Introduction to Visual Culture
- Debating Texts: Theory in Literature
- Revolution of the Word: Modernism
- Exploring the Bloody Chamber: Medieval to Postmodern
- Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain
- Contentious Shakespeare
- Medieval Encounters
- Child Language and Literacy
- The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun and Sex
- Introduction to Writing Poetry
- Introduction to Writing Fiction
- Race and Ethnicity: American Perspectives
- Techniques of Seeing
- Discourse Analysis
- Roman Love Poetry
- Plato's Republic
- Introduction to Writing Drama
- American Word / American Image
- Writing a Short Film
- The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun and Sex
- Dissertation - English Literature
- Welsh Gothic / Gothic Wales
- Written in Blood: Reading the Vampire
- Graphic Novel
- African American Literature 1910-1940: The Harlem Renaissance
- Chaucer
- Stylistics
- Madness, Malady and Melancholia: Literature and Medicine from Genesis to Genomes
- The Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize Module
- Beyond Shakespeare
- Philosophy and Literature
- Further Fiction Writing
- Further Creative Non Fiction
- Creative Writing Personal Project
- Further Poetry Writing