📖Program Curriculum
In the first, the curriculum is shared across related courses allowing you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline before going on, in the second and third, to specialist modules in your chosen field.
Modules
Language, Literature and Writing Through Time - 20 credits
Key Concepts in English and Languages - 20 credits
Research Methods - 20 credits
Digital Worlds - 20 credits
Space, Place, Regionalisms, Globalisms - 20 credits
Group Project: Make a ‘Zine! - 20 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
In Year two, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your:
Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledgeStudy skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learnerProfessional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your careerGlobal awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen
In Year two, you will develop more advanced knowledge and skills to do with: Shakespeare, gender and sexuality and 21st century literature, amongst others.
Modules
Shakespeare’s Renaissance - 20 credits
Age of Revolutions: from Milton to Romanticism - 20 credits
Philosophies of Gender and Sexuality - 20 credits
Victorians and Empire - 20 credits
Modernisms and Postmodernisms - 20 credits
21st Century Literature - 20 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement2 can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.
If you choose to do a work placement, you will pay a reduced tuition fee3 of £1,250. For more information, please go to the fees and funding section. During this time you will receive guidance from your employer or partner institution, along with your assigned academic mentor who will ensure you have the support you need to complete your placement.
Modules
UK Work Placement– 0 credits
International Study/Work Placement – 0 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.Year three aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from one and two. You could also work on a large final project in an area of your interest, with the support of a mentor and your Academic Personal Tutor.
You will be asked to choose optional modules on top of the compulsory module, ‘Reading #BlackLivesMatter’, to total 120 credits in your final.
Modules
Reading #BlackLivesMatter - 20 credits
The Existentialist Café: Ethics in a Coffee Cup - 20 credits
The Gothic: Literature, Film and Television - 20 credits
Interactive and Video Game Narratives - 20 credits
Enlightenment: Literature, Culture and Modernity - 20 credits
Speculative Fiction - 20 credits
Women Writing the American West - 20 credits
Final Project - 40 credits
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
