BA (Hons) Media and English

Module: 4EN007

Credits: 20

Period: 1

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: 1

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: 4MZ009

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the major concepts in the study of media, communication and culture. The module explores how concepts can be applied to enable and enhance understanding of media, communications and culture in a global, digital age.

Module: 4EN008

Credits: 20

Period: 1

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: 4MZ001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the ways in which media, culture and society interact. The module will investigate the context of media production and consumption, as well as identifying the ways in which media texts construct meaning.

Module: 4HU002

Credits: 20

Period: 1

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: 5MZ014

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aim of this module is to enable students to understand and to apply a variety of analytical methodologies in a theoretically and empirically informed manner.

Module: 5EN001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to provide both a thorough introduction to the main areas of contemporary literary criticism and theory, and to equip students with a set of theoretical terms and concepts that will enable them to understand what is at stake in current debates in critical and cultural theory.

Module: 5MZ004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to introduce students to the role ethical considerations play in the context of the professional media or public relations environments. Using a case study approach, the module will seek to examine the nature of ethical dilemmas encountered in a professional environment, and will explore the problems that arise in attempting to resolve such dilemmas. Students will be introduced to a range of ethical positions and will be encouraged, through the use of case studies and also through the use of the e-forum, to consider the resources such theories might make available to them when seeking to deal with ethical issues in a professional environment.

Module: 5FI003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module addresses the revolutionary drive in filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s in a variety of national cinemas, including the French Nouvelle Vague, the British New Wave and some non-Western cinemas. These films challenged the social status quo by drawing attention to the reality of life for working class people. The style of these films was innovative, based on location shooting with a documentary feel. This module will put the films into their historical context, while at the same time commenting on the originality of their themes and the pioneering techniques used in making them.

Module: 5HU002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module examines literary and cultural responses to political debates and to key moments in social history. Particular reference will be made to the impacts of socio-cultural change and political movements on popular literature and culture, and how such productions have been used to advance or resist various ideological interests. Issues addressed will include the relationships between various types of representation and their claims to truth and authenticity, the impact of social, commercial, political and moral issues on cultural production; the significance of the audience; the role(s) of culture within social formations, with particular reference to practices of collaboration, recuperation, and resistance.

Module: 5EN011

Credits: 20 ...