BA English Literature with a Placement Year
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme spans four years, incorporating a 9–12 month placement in the third year. Optional beginner-level language study and a semester abroad are available. All modules are assessed entirely through coursework.
Modules
- HUM PLACEMENT YEAR
- ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
- READING NOW
- BECOMING A CRITIC
- EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
- WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
- CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
- BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
- THEORISING MEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
- INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
- BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
- EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
- BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
- INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
- WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
- BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
- MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
- LITERATURE STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD (SPRING)
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- MODERNISM: THE ART OF EXPERIMENT
- CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
- VICTORIAN WRITING
- ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
- SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
- EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
- EUROPEAN LITERATURE
- CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
- MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
- THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
- READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
- THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
- LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
- PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II B1 CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- ADAPTATION: CROSS-MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (AUT)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (SPR)
- THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
- SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (AUT)
- WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
- BANNED BOOKS
- MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
- LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (SPR)
- THE ART OF MURDER
- THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
- MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE