English Literature BA (Hons)

What will you study on this course? Year 1 The compulsory module provides a link between your previous studies and the study of literature at university, introducing you to new critical techniques and ideas about literary texts, covering a range of works from all historical periods. You can take further modules from the list below and, if you wish, from options including Film Studies, Creative Writing. Compulsory module: Studying Literature: this module will advance your skills of textual analysis and introduce you to a range of theoretical approaches to literary study, including genre, gender and ideology. Choose from: Memory, Identity and Imagination Travellers’ Tales The Literature of Laughter Heroes and Villains: Introduction to Medieval Literature (a range of Old English texts in translation and Middle English texts in the original) Reading the Renaissance Exploring America: An Introduction to US Literature The Gothic in Literature and Film Landmarks in Literature Year 2 For single honours you choose 6 modules from a range of literary periods and topics including Shakespeare and creative writing. For joint degrees you choose 3 modules and for 'with' degrees you choose 4. Options: Contemporary Literatures Literature and Modernity Victorian Literature Romanticism Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists Literature 1580 1750 Late Medieval and Tudor Literature Early Medieval Literature Words and Music Literature in the Community Year 3 For single honours you work on a dissertation on a literary topic of your choice, individually supervised by a member of staff. You also take 4 specialist modules e.g.: modules on individual authors (e.g. Dickens, Chaucer, Milton) and on genres and themes (e.g. Detective Fiction, Anglo American Travel Writing in Italy, Experimental Writing, World Literature, Early Modern Drama and Gender Politics, Shakespeare’s Afterlives, Welsh Writing in English, Arthurian Literature, The Open Road).