B.A. Comparative Literature and English Language and Linguistics (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• The Tale
• Tackling Text: Explaining Style
• Foundations of Language 1: Sounds and Words
• Foundations of Language 2: Structure and Meaning

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Stylistics: Language in Literature
• Shakespeare's Afterlives
• Nordic Literature and Film
• The Text: Approaches to Comparative Literature
• Medieval Literature and Culture
• Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in 19th Century Fiction
• Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
• Postmodernism
• The Shoah in Literature, Film and Culture
• Science Fiction: History and Innovation
• Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
• European Realism
• The Epic: From Homer to Walcott
• Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
• Prize Winners
• Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

The University of Kent has Erasmus agreements with several universities in Europe and the rest of the world.

Possible modules may include:

• Postcolonial Images of Africa and South Asia
• Comparative Literature and English & Linguistics in the Classroom
• Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
• Prize Winners
• Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
• The Epic: From Homer to Walcott

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage