B.A. Philosophy and English and American Literature (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.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

• Romanticism
• Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Metaphysics
• Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
• Introduction to Philosopy: Logic and Reasoning
• Philosophical Reading and Writing (core)
• Early Drama
• Readings in the Twentieth Century
• Writing America

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature
• Early Modern Literature 1500-1700
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature
• Empire, New Nations and Migration
• The Contemporary
• Modernism
• Reading Victorian Literature
• Declaring Independence: 19th Century US Literature
• Justice, Violence and the State
• Continental Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
• Continental Philosophy: Subject, Identity and the Political

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
• Clouds, Waves & Crows: Writing the Natural, 1800 to the Present
• Poetry and Crisis, from the First World War to Occupy Charles Dickens and Victorian England
• Postcolonial Writing
• Language and Place in Colonial and Postcolonial Poetry
• Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945- 1995
• The Unknown: Reading and Writing
• Native American Literature
• Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature
• Unruly Women and Other Insubordinates: the dramatic repertoire of the Q
• Image, Vision and Dream: Medieval Texts and Visual Culture