B.A. English and American Literature and Film (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Canterbury
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Bachelor's degree
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Canterbury
English and American Literature and Film (Hons) from the University o Kent is challenging, flexible, and wide-ranging. It covers both traditional areas (such as Shakespeare and Dickens) and newer fields such as American literature, creative writing, postcolonial literature and recent developments in literary theory. We also offer you the opportunity to study abroad in the third year of a four year programme.
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Subjects
- American Literature
- Cinema
- Writing
- English
- University
Course programme
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 1Possible modules may include:
- Romanticism
- Film Form
- Introduction to Film Theory
- Early Drama
- Readings in the Twentieth Century
- Writing America
You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage
Stage 2Possible modules may include:
- Independent Project
- Topics in American Cinema II
- Introduction to Screen Writing
- Film and Television Adaptation
- Animated Worlds
- New York and the Movies
- The Gothic in Film
- Documentary Film
- Sound and Cinema
- Digital Domains
- Storytelling and the Cinema
- Film Authorship
- Film Genre (Horror)
- National and Transnational Cinema
- Postwar European Cinema: Waves and Realisms
- British Cinema
You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage
Stage 3Possible modules may include:
- Clouds, Waves & Crows: Writing the Natural, 1800 to the Present
- Poetry and Crisis, from the First World War to Occupy
- Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
- Charles Dickens and Victorian England
- 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
- Places and Journeys
B.A. English and American Literature and Film (Hons)