Education Studies and English Literature BA (Hons)

Year 1

Core modules:

• 1944-88: The Acts
• Educational Reflections*
• Educators
• Principles in Education
• Literacies in Higher Education*
• Critical Reading 1
• Introduction to English Studies
• Critical Reading 2
• Early English Texts and Contexts

* students take one of these modules as designated by the Programme

Optional modules

• Introducing Early Childhood*
• Introducing Special and Inclusive Education*

*with the permission of the Programme Leader, Introducing Early Childhood or Introducing Special and Inclusive Education may be taken instead of 1944-88: The Acts

Year 2

Core modules:

• Education: Social and Political Thought
• Education: Social and Political Thought (2)

Optional modules:

• What is a Child?
• A Thinking about 'Race'
• B Thinking about 'Race'
• Independent Study
• Theorising Early Childhood
• Education: Social and Political Thought
• Impairments, Disability and Inclusion
• Theories of Discipline
• Theorising Progressive Education
• Thinking the Holocaust
• Technology and Education
• Knowing through Observation
• Globalisation and Comparative Education
• Physical Education
• Constructing Identity: Teachers' Lives and Pupils' Stories
• Theorising Special and Inclusive Education
• What was a Teacher? Histories of Teacher Education
• 'Pioneers and Separate Spheres' Gender and History of
• Education 1789-1923
• Social Inclusion and Exclusion
• Sexuality: Education, Policy and Practice
• The Teacher: Power and Pedagogy
• Education and Work
• Education & Nature: learning in the Anthropocene
• Education Beyond Left and Right
• Culture/ Education
• Education and Christianity
• Philosophies of Education
• Play
• Volunteering in Education Studies
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
• The Modern Age
• Chaucer and His World
• Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
• Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
• Victorian Fictions
• Gothic and Romantic Fiction
• Postcolonial Fictions
• The Postmodern Age
• Literary Adaptations for Film and Television
• Sex and Sensibility in 18th Century print
• 18TH Century Performance and Censorship
• Textual Editing in Theory and Practice
• Children's Literature and Young Adult Fiction
• Volunteering for BA English

Year 3

Core modules:

• Dissertation (Education Studies)

Optional modules:

• Construction of Gender Roles in Schools
• Current Issues in Education
• Democracy and Education
• Independent Study
• Loss of Childhood
• A Early Years Education
• B Early Years Education
• Critiquing Higher Education
• Constructing the Other: Race, Ethnicity and Religion
• Educating the Teenage Consumer
• The Inclusive Educator: Values, Virtues and Practice
• Discipline and the Soul
• Holocaust Education
• Marxisms and Schooling
• Exclusion in and from Schooling: Critical Reflections on Teaching, Policy and Theory
• Life, Death and Education
• Utopia and Education
• Education and the Arab-Islamic World
• Film as Education
• Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education (RECE)
• Contemporary Theory and Practice in Early Childhood
• Early Childhood in a Changing World
• Philosophy, Education and the Learning Person
• Deconstructing Philosophies of Education
• Education and Jewish Thought
• Education, Ecologies & Ethics
• Critiquing Inclusive Educational Practice
• Critiquing the Museum Experience
• The Language of Inclusion in Education
• Education, Inclusion and Refugees
• Evaluating Educational Research
• Liberal Education
• The Shakespeare Phenomenon
• Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Twentieth Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
• Consumer Culture
• Jewish Identities
• Keywords
• Literature, Sexuality and Morality
• The City in American Literature 1868-1925
• Renaissance Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth I
• Romantic Celebrity Culture
• Globalization and Contemporary Fiction
• Literature and Psychoanalysis
• The Figure of the Law
• Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture
• Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
• The Victorian Art of Murder

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.