📖Program Curriculum
The module details given below are indicative they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.
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Year one modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Poetry through practice
Reading Literature
Texts and Contexts
Fiction Through Practice
OPTIONAL MODULES
Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature
Childhood Policy and Education
English for Academic Purposes 4 (EAP 4)
Reading Film and Media
History Media Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture
The British and Global Economy
Education in Britain:past present future
Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry
Literature as History: Writing the Americas
The Early Modern World 1490-1700
Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures
Applied Psychology
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Writing Genre and Mode
Literature and Social Change
Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose
Methods and Approaches to Literature
OPTIONAL MODULES
Romanticisms
The Renaissance: Shakespeare and Beyond
Transatlantic Modernisms
Creative Arts and Humanities in Society
Work Placement for Humanities Students
Alfred Hitchcock's America
Contemporary World Literature
Culture and Barbarism: Literature in the Victorian Age
Year three modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Creative Writing: Portfolio - ISP
OPTIONAL MODULES
Words and Pictures: the Contemporary American Graphic Novel
High Culture: Drink Drugs and the American Dream
Postmodernism: Fiction Film and Theory
Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation
Dissertation in English - ISP
Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students
Postcolonial and World Literature in English
The Alcohol Question
Modernist Manifestos and Magazines
Violence and death in Shakespeare's theatre
Hitchcock's Queer Cinema