English with Film Studies

Year 1

A sample of the current modules offered is shown below. We review our modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer you an innovative and exciting programme.

This is three-year course combining both required and optional modules to achieve a total of 120 credits for each year. You also have the option to study abroad in your second year.

English

First year students are required to take the following module:

• Reading Poetry (15 credit)

And five of the following 15 credit modules:

• Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature (15 credit)
• Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credit)
• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credit)
• Language in Time (15 credit)
• Medieval Literary Culture (15 credit)
• Writing London (15 credit)

Film Studies:

• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms (15 credit)
• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts (15 credit)

Year 2

In Year 2 you will choose six English modules plus two options in Film Studies. The English department operates a banding system in the second year, to ensure a balanced programme of study.

English

In order to promote a balanced structure of study, the English Department organises all second year modules into a banding system:

• Band 1: Literature up to 1800 and English Language
• Band 2: Literature 1800 - present

You are required to take a minimum of four Band 1 modules during your second year. At least one of these must be a Band 1 Medieval option.

You will take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from a range of optional modules within these bands which may typically include:

Band One:

• A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean England (15 credits)
• Renaissance Wordplay (15 credits)
• Comedy and Revolution (15 credits)
• Cultural Encounters: literature and language in the Anglo-Saxon period (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing (15 credits)
• The Film of The Play (15 credits)
• History, Politics & Elizabethan Imagination (15 credits)
• Language on the Edge (15 credits)
• London Literature 1380-1450 (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Old English Poems & Modern British Poetry (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Performance in Medieval Culture (Medieval) (15 credits)
• The Poetry of Revolution (15 credits)
• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature (Medieval) (15 credits)
• The Rise of the Novel (15 credits)
• Family, Authorship and Romanticism (15

  credits)

• Medieval Science Fiction (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Unlocking Early Modern Letters (15 credits)
• Early American Literature (15 credits)

Band Two:

• Prose Fiction (15 credits)
• Literature and Psychoanalysis (15 credits)
• Modern Theatre (15 credits)
• Victorians and Social Change (15 credits)
• Shocks of the New (15 credits)
• Writing the New Nation: Nineteenth Century American Literature (15 credits)
• US slavery and the literary imagination (15 credits)
• Modern Theatre (15 credits)
• Theatre Capital (15 credits)
• Fin de Siecle (15 credits)
• First World War Literature (15 credits)
• The Colonial Novel and British India (15 credits)
• Moments on Culture (15 credits)
• Mapping Modernism (15 credits)
• 20th Century American Fiction (15 credits)
• Experimental Theatre (15 credits)
• Creative Writing Drama (15 credits)

You are required to take two 15-credit optional Film Studies modules from a range that may typically include:

• Asian Popular Cinemas (15 credits)
• Cinema and Spectatorship (15 credits)
• Film Authorship (15 credits)
• Film Forms (e.g. Documentary Film, Avant-garde Cinema) (15 credits)
• French New Wave (15 credits)
• Italian Neo-Realism (15 credits)
• Contemporary Spanish Cinema (15 credits)
• Contemporary European Cinema (15 credits)
• Topics in World Cinema (15 credits)

Second year students also have the opportunity to study abroad in the second semester of the second year. Partner universities currently include:

• National University of Singapore
• University of California
• University of North Carolina
• University of Pennsylvania
• Hong Kong University
• University of Sydney
• University of British Columbia
• University of Michigan

Year 3 Required Modules

There are no required modules for this course in Year 3.

English Students are required to select 90 credits from a wide range of optional 15 credit modules, which may typically include:

• The Art of Samuel Beckett (15 credits)
• Autobiography and Modern Self-Representation (15 credits)
• Beowulf (15 credits)
• Creative Writing: Drama (15 credits)
• Critically Queer: Literature, Culture and Queer Theory (15 credits)
• Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps (15 credits)
• Late Shakespeare (15 credits)
• Intellectuals of the Black Atlantic World (15 credits)
• Modernist Short Story (15 credits)
• Imagined Worlds (15 credits)
• Victorians Abroad (15 credits)
• Reading Paradise Lost (15 credits)
• Students may also choose to take a 30 credit dissertation in place of two 15 credit optional modules.

Film Studies

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of modules that may typically include the following 15 credit modules:

• American Underground Cinema (15 credits)
• Film and Transnationalism (15 credits)
• Film Genre, Style and Ideology (15 credits)
• Film Noir (15 credits)
• Stardom and Performance (15 credits)
• Third Cinema and Beyond (15 credits)
• Critically Queer (15 credits)
• Literature and Media (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.