Arts and Humanities (BA): 3-year, full-time

Course structure

In Year 1, you take 2 compulsory modules and choose 2 School of Arts option modules at Level 4.

In Year 2, you take 1 compulsory module, and choose 2 option modules at Level 5 and 1 option module at Level 6.

In Year 3, you choose 3 option modules at Level 6. You also write an extended piece of supervised research on a topic of your choice (6000-8000 words).

To find out more, read our programme handbook.

Compulsory modules

• Connecting the Arts
• Introduction to Methods in Cultural Study
• Key Concepts in Cultural Analysis: The Production of the Human

Humanities options

• Aliveness and the Arts
• Literature and Cultural Identity
• Literature and Empire
• Modernism and the City
• Narratives of the Body
• Sexuality and Modernity: Reading Across Cultures
• The Photographic

Sample of English Literature/Creative Writing options

• Critical Foundations
• Fiction Workshop: The Contemporary Novel
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• The American Century and Beyond US Literature and Culture since 1900
• The Novel
• Writing Fiction
• Writing London

Sample of Theatre Studies options

• Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance
• Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I)
• Theatre Languages
• Theories of Theatricality and Performance

Sample of Media and Cultural Studies options

• Cultural Identity and the Media
• Film, Narrative and Genre
• Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
• Introduction to Cinema
• Media, Technology and Culture
• Memory and Media
• The Politics of Culture

Sample of Languages and Cultures options

• French 1
• Japanese 1
• Reading Transnational Cultures
• Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality
• Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
• The Latin American Novel
• Understanding Culture: Theories and Texts

Sample of History of Art options

• Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century
• Art and Society in the Twentieth Century
• Art History: A Survey
• Debates in Art History
• Post-War Art and the Politics of Memory, From the 1960s to the Present
• The Immigrant Experience in Modern British Art