📖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
Reading Literature
Texts and Contexts
Reading Film and Media
Film and Culture
OPTIONAL MODULES
Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature
Poetry through practice
Medieval Europe and Its World
Education in Britain:past present future
Fiction Through Practice
Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry
Literature as History: Writing the Americas
Film and Culture
Introduction to Television Studies
Film Animation: History and Theory
The Photographic Message
Modern European Film and Television
Digital Video
Sound for Moving Image
Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Literature and Social Change
Methods and Approaches to Literature
Gender and the Cinematic Gaze
Global Popular Cinemas
OPTIONAL MODULES
Romanticisms
Writing Genre and Mode
The Renaissance: Shakespeare and Beyond
Transatlantic Modernisms
Work Placement for Humanities Students
Alfred Hitchcock's America
Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose
Contemporary World Literature
Culture and Barbarism: Literature in the Victorian Age
Adaptation
Social Media and Society
Science Fiction Cinema: Utopias and Dystopias
Documentary: Theory and Practice
Film and Screen Music
Year three modules
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
Creative Writing: Portfolio - 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
British Social Realism
Youth and Film: Growing Up on Screen
Independent Study Project (ISP) in Film Studies
Work Experience in Media Communications and Culture
Crime in Neoconservative America
Approaches to Screenwriting
Visual Pleasures: From Carnival to Disney
Music Conflict and Social Change