YEAR 1
In English, you will take the following modules (all compulsory):

Poetry (15 credits)
London Global (30 credits)
Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 credits)

In Linguistics, you will take the following two compulsory modules:

Foundations of Language (30 credits)
Sociolinguistics: English in Use (15 credits)

In addition, students choose 15 credits from linguistics modules at level 4.

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 (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 Linguistics, students normally choose 60 Credits optional linguistics modules at level 5 from a wide range of options that changes each year. Modules may include:

Aspects of Meaning
Explaining Grammatical Structure
History of English
Language and Mind
Language in the USA
Research Methods in Linguistics
Semantics of African American English

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 3
You will take one of the following modules:

English Research Dissertation
English/Linguistics Research Project
You then choose your final-year elective modules from a wide range of options that changes each year. In English, your selection will normally include one 30 credit option module.

Elective modules may include:

Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice
British Fictions of the 1960s
Constructing a Language
Creative Writing Prose Fiction
Developmental Disorders of Language and Cognition
Feminism(s)
Gender and Language
Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 to 1600
James Joyce's Ulysses
Language and Health Communication
Meaning in the Real World, Sex
Reading Late Victorian Literature
Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
Teaching Trans Lives
Time, Narrative and Culture
Writing Black and Asian Britain
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it