BA (Hons) English with Foundation Year

Module: 3GK012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.

Module: 3GK013

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.

Module: 3HU006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to the twin notions of Utopias and Dystopias and uses a range of extracted primary texts (provided in class and on the VLE) to explore how writers, film makers, and others utilise the imagined space of a utopia or dystopia to make comment upon our world.

Module: 3GK014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.

Module: 4EN007

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will examine the shorter fiction and literature of well-known and canonical authors as a means of introducing a range of authors in a digestible fashion whilst also considering the short story as a distinct literary form. We will discuss a range of short literary material to show the contribution that such literature can make to the canon. We will investigate the formal characteristics of the short story – plot (or its frequent absence), narrative technique, arrangement of scenes, tone, and how the structure determines the treatment of a range of contemporary ideas: time and consciousness, subjectivity, alienation, sexuality, body and gender, fantasy, imperialism and immigration.

Module: 4EN010

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This course introduces a number of key texts in medieval and Old English literature through the lens of the medieval animal. You will encounter a range of fantastic beasts in English and European textual and visual cultures from the tenth to sixteenth centuries, and learn the critical skills to analyse them. In doing so, you will examine the importance of animals in forming human and civic identities – including in our own city’s Anglo-Saxon name.

Module: 4EN004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will examine literature as both a source of, and challenge to, different forms of individual, social and national identities. It will seek to address questions concerning the processes of readers' subjectivity and identification, the constructedness of identity and the relationship between literary expression and national identities. In addition, whose identity is under scrutiny when we read literary texts? The author or the reader? Who is the ‘I’ in literary meaning and should we move from the interpretation of texts to the interpretation of interpretations?

Module: 4EN008

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to the principles of drama in performance. Aided by theatre professionals the module takes you through the practicalities and theory of putting on a play: interpretation, staging, directing, producing and acting. Using the Arena Theatre's stage and resources, you'll take key scenes from the page to the stage.

Module: 4HU002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to introduce students to key theoretical and methodological issues through an exploration of popular culture. The module explores the relationship between popular cultural forms and identity, and how culture can be perceived as both an expression of and resistance to dominant norms

Module: 4EN009

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will explore a broad selection of poetry from different periods of literary history with an emphasis on learning techniques for formal analysis (close reading), creative expression (writing poetry), and performance. We will consider aspects of reading, writing, and performing poetry, including form, rhythm and meter, diction, figurative language and sound. We will also consider the development of particular genres (e.g. the ballad, the sonnet) and forms (e.g. blank verse, free verse) over time, from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the horizon of reader expectations that accrue around poetic forms and genres.

Module: 5EN007

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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This module offers a critical and creative engagement with literature written for children, designed for Creative Writing and English students. In studying the historical trajectory of children’s literature, students will be encouraged to analyse texts in relation to their cultural, social and gendered contexts, and mindful of the changing politics of childhood as an identity category

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