English with Study in North America 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 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 second year is spent studying at a partner institution in North America.

Please note that modules offered are subject to change, depending on staff availability, timetabling, and demand.

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

This year is spent in a North American Institution. Students will take the number of modules usually required of students in an academic year at the host university. One of these modules must cover a substantial amount of pre-1800 material, two must be in North American literature and/or culture, and at least 75% of a student’s studies must be in English or American literature and culture. The marks for the year's work will count as 120 credits towards the degree result. For each of the two semesters spent abroad, the average of the semester's marks will be treated as a single 60-credit module mark.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits EAS2110North American Study Term 160 EAS2111North American Study Term 260 Year 3 Compulsory modules

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.

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.