English and Visual Culture BA

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The English and Visual Culture degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year.

Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons.

Year 1

The first year gives you a foundational knowledge of English and visual culture theories and concepts. You will also gain important analytical techniques that will be useful across a range of subjects and research tasks.

In your first stage of study, you will take 60 credits in English, and 60 credits in Visual Culture (a pattern repeated throughout the programme). Modules at this stage will offer a solid grounding in both subject areas, providing critical tools and knowledge which will be built on in the following years.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits EAS1035Beginnings: English Literature Before 1800 30 AHV1001Introducing Visual Culture 30 AHV1006Visual Media 15 Optional modules

Select 15 credits of Art History and Visual Culture Level 1 optional modules.

Select 30 credits of English Level 1 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits AHV1005Inside the Museum 15 ARC1003ADiscovering Historic Archaeology 15 ARC1050Objects: Contexts and Displays15 CLA1354Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus15 EAS1034Film Studies: An Introduction15 MLF1121French Visual History15 English EAS1031Introduction to Creative Writing15 EAS1034Film Studies: An Introduction15 EAS1037The Novel15 EAS1038The Poem15 EAS1041Rethinking Shakespeare15 Year 2

In the second year you will advance your grasp of English and visual culture knowledge and methods through a set of compulsory modules. Optional modules enable you to develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits AHV2005Art History and Visual Culture Field Study 30 AHV2007Contemporary Visual Practices15 Optional modules

Select 15 credits of Art History and Visual Culture Level 2 optional modules.

Select 60 credits of English Level 2 optional modules. 30 credits must be chosen from modules concerned with literature pre-1800 (currently EAS2026, EAS2071, EAS2080, EAS2105, EAS2102, EAS2106).

Note: You may select HUM2000, ‘Humanities in the Workplace’ in place of any other non-compulsory Stage 2, term 1 module. 

CodeModuleCredits Art History and Visual Culture AHV2002Debates and Contestations in Art History15 AHV2004Theories and Histories of Photography15 AHV2208Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy15 ARC2118Lords to Lepers: Medieval Social Worlds15 ARC2119Art of the Metal Smith: Cultural Archaeologies of Technical Achievement15 ARC2601Perspectives in Archaeology15 CLA2354Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus15 MLF2066Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment15 MLM2011Encounters and Entanglements: Chinese Art in Global Perspective15 Plus optional modules as relevant from across HUMS disciplines. English Pre-1800 Literature EAS2071Chaucer and His Contemporaries30 EAS2080Renaissance and Revolution30 EAS2102Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750 30 EAS2105Theatrical Cultures: Renaissance to Restoration 30 EAS2106Romanticism30 English EAF2502Shots in the Dark30 EAF2510Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture30 EAS2029Revolutions and Evolutions: Nineteenth Century Writings 30 EAS2074Introduction to American Literature 30 EAS2087Creative Writing: Finding a Voice 30 EAS2103Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960 30 EAS2104Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations 30 EAS2106Romanticism30 College-wide Humanities HUM2000Humanities in the Workplace 30 Year 3

The centre-point of the final year is the dissertation. This provides you with the opportunity to explore an area of interest and to demonstrate what you have learned over the previous years of your degree. You will also take up to three other specialist modules to create a programme of work fully reflecting your interests.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits Select one of the following: AHV3000Visual Culture Dissertation 30 EAS3003English Dissertation30 EAS3122Creative Writing Dissertation30 Optional modules

If you have chosen to take AHV3000, select 30 credits of Visual Culture Level 3 optional modules and 60 credits of English options.

If you have chosen to take EAS3003 or EAS3122, select 30 credits of English Level 3 optional modules and 30 credits of Visual Culture options.

CodeModuleCredits Visual Culture Plus optional modules as relevant from across HUMS disciplines. English EAF3501American Independent Film30 EAF3504Cityscapes30 EAF3508Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Western Cinema30 EAF3509Diasporic Cinemas30 EAF3513British Screens30 EAS3100Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity30 EAS3116Short Fiction30 EAS3128Writing the Short Film30 EAS3131Advanced Critical Theory30 EAS3134Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop30 EAS3136Myths of the Nation: Postcolonial Studies30 EAS3139Classics of Children's Literature30 EAS3141Imperial Encounters: the Victorians and their World30 EAS3143Romanticism30 EAS3145Acts of Writing: Literature and Film, 1953 to present30 EAS3165Charles Dickens and the Condition of England30 EAS3167James Joyce's Ulysses30 EAS3168The American Novel Since 200030 EAS3176Performing Digital Humanities: New Media Art and the 21st Century Museum30 EAS3177India Uncovered - Representations in Film and Fiction30 EAS3178Life-Writing: History, Form, Practice30 EAS3179Life and Death in Early Modern Literature30 EAS3180Literature/Anti-Literature30 EAS3217Crime and Punishment: Detective Fiction from the Rue Morgue to the Millenium30 EAS3219Virginia Woolf: Fiction, Feeling, Form30 EAS3225‘Reader, I Married Him’: The Evolution of Romance Fiction, from 1740 to the present30 EAS3226Modern Irish Literature30 EAS3227Greek Fire30 EAS3228Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare30 EAS3229Gothic Evolutions: Literature and Visual Culture30 EAS3230Prostitutes, Pornographers, and Inverts: Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century30 EAS3231Spectacular Bodies: Shakespeare and Counter-cultural Performance30 EAS3232Jane Austen and the Novel30 Full module descriptions

For full module descriptions please visit the English website and Art History and Visual Culture website.