English with American Literature BA (Hons)

Core modules:

• Critical Reading 1
• Critical Reading 2
• Introduction to English Studies
• Early English Texts and Contexts

Two American Studies modules from a choice of:

• America and Americanisation
• American Genres
• Digital America
• The Black Atlantic

Two optional modules from a choice of:

• Introduction to Poetry
• Fictional Writing
• Scriptwriting
• Creative Non-Fiction
• Poetry and Poetic Expression
• Approaches to Language Study
• Understanding Language 1: Syntax and Morphology
• Understanding Language 2: Semantics, Phonetics and Phonology
• Understanding Language 3: Semantics and Pragmatics
• History of the English Language

Two optional modules from a choice of:

• American Gothic
• American Science Fiction
• Writing America
• Literature and Film
• Work and Money in American Literature

Students may choose from a range of additional optional modules:

• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
• Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
• The Modern Age
• Chaucer and His World
• Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
• Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
• Victorian Fictions
• British Literature in the Age of Reason 1688-1743
• Literature in the Shadow of Revolution 1745-1775-1789
• Gothic and Romantic Fiction
• Postcolonial Fictions
• The Postmodern Age
• Individual Project
• Contemporary Children's Literature
• Volunteering
• Middle English Texts in Context
• Old English 1

Students may also choose one Creative Writing module and one English Language module.

Core modules:

• Dissertation
• Creative and Critical Extended Study

Two optional modules from a choice of:

• African American Literatures and Cultures
• The Contemporary American Novel
• American Crime Fiction
• "Sex and the City "and Beyond
• Chick Lit/Womens Writing before "Sex and the City"

Students may choose from a range of additional optional modules:

• The Shakespeare Phenomenon
• Crime and Englishness
• Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Biography and the Body
• William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
• 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
• Globalisation and Contemporary Fiction
• Literature and Psychoanalysis
• Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
• The Figure of the Law in Literature
• Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture
• Old English 2

Students may also choose one Creative Writing module and one English Language module.

For further information about modules, please view the course leaflet (see right hand side).

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.