English with Study Abroad BA (Exeter)

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 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.

The third year is spent abroad.

Year 1

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

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits EAS1032Approaches to Criticism 30 EAS1035Beginnings: English Literature Before 1800 30 EAS1038The Poem 15 EAS1040Academic English 15 Optional modules

Select 30 credits of English Level 1 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits EAS1031Introduction to Creative Writing 15 EAS1034Film Studies: An Introduction 15 EAS1037The Novel 15 EAS1041Rethinking Shakespeare 15 Year 2

At the second stage of the programme, we expect that you will have identified some areas of English that particularly interest you and that you want to know more about. Expert tutors lead each module and you will have the opportunity to work through your selected subject areas in their historical and critical contexts. You will select four modules, two from before 1800 and two from after 1800, from a list of options that currently includes medieval, renaissance, eighteenth-century, Victorian, twentieth century and contemporary literature subjects, as well as options in creative writing and film.

Optional modules

All modules are optional. Select 120 credits of English level 2 optional modules - two modules concerned with literature pre-1800; and two other modules.

Please note, you may select HUM2000, ‘Humanities in the Workplace’ in place of any other level 2, term 1 module.

CodeModuleCredits EAF2502Shots in the Dark30 EAF2510Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture30 EAS2026Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640 30 EAS2029Revolutions and Evolutions: Nineteenth Century Writings 30 EAS2071Chaucer and His Contemporaries 30 EAS2074Introduction to American Literature 30 EAS2080Renaissance and Revolution 30 EAS2087Creative Writing: Finding a Voice 30 EAS2102Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750 30 EAS2103Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960 30 EAS2104Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations 30 EAS2105Theatrical Cultures: Renaissance to Restoration 30 EAS2106Romanticism30 College-wide Humanities HUM2000Humanities in the Workplace 30 Year 3

Students will spend the third year of their studies in a partner university on an Erasmus/Socrates exchange or other approved programme of study. The year abroad comprises 120 credits and assessment is based on the credits gained at the partner institution.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits HUM3999Year Abroad 120 Year 4

In your final year, you will study one lecture-led module on a key period of English (one of Acts of Writing, Life and Death in Early Modern Literature or Romanticism), and two modules from an extensive list of options. Each optional module reflects the specific expertise and current research interests of the active researchers who deliver it. For this reason, the range of optional modules available changes each year. Finally, you will become an independent researcher yourself, as you write a dissertation on a topic of your choice under supervision.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits Choose either EAS3003 or EAS3122 EAS3003Dissertation30 EAS3122Creative Writing Dissertation30 Choose either EAS3143 or EAS3145 or EAS3179 EAS3143Romanticism30 EAS3145Acts of Writing: Literature and Film, 1953-present30 EAS3179Life and Death in Early Modern Literature30 Optional modules

Select 60 credits of English Level 3 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits 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.