📖Program Curriculum
YEAR 1
You will take the following modules (all compulsory)
English: Poetry
English: London Global
English: Literatures in Time: Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages
Film Studies: US Cinema: Key Concepts
Film Studies: Decolonising Approaches to Film Analysis
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 2
In English you will take one 30 credit module from List One or Two, and at least one module from Lists Three or Four:
List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies
Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Studies
Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City
Romantics and Revolutionaries
Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial Studies
The Long Contemporary
Modernism
Postcolonial and Global Literatures
List 4: Special Options (Modules offered on this list changes each year). Modules may include:
American Romanticsm
Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
Global Shakespeare
James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics, 1918-1948
The Thousand and One Nights
In Film, you take the following compulsory module:
What is Cinema? Critical Approaches
You then choose your remaining Film modules from a list that changes each year. Modules may include:
Brazilian Cinema: The Social Tradition
Contemporary World Cinemas
Film Curation
From Page to Screen
Introduction to British Cinema
Research Methods (Film)
Scriptwriting: Adaption and Original Script
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 3
You will take one of the following modules:
English Research Dissertation
Film Research Project
You then choose your final year modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.
Modules may include
British Fictions of the 1960s
Feminism(s)
Film Archaeology
German Narrative Fiction in Text and Film
Gullotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
Mapping Contemporary Cinemas
New Independent Indian Cinema
Reading the Middle East
Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
Slavery, Colonialism and Postcolonialism in African Cinema
Teaching Trans Lives
Time, Narrative, Culture
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Please note that all modules are subject to change.