English Literature second year modules
Students choose 120 credits of optional modules. At least four English Literature modules must be taken, including at least one Shakespeare module.
Optional modules (may include)
Shakespeare Options (students choose at least 1)
- Shakespeare: Elizabethan
- Shakespeare: Jacobean
English Literature Options (students choose at least 3)
- Gothic
- Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture
- Literature 1950-Present
- Restoration and Revolution
- Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature
- Popular Fiction Before the Novel
- Reading the Renaissance
- Earliest English
- Literature and the Environment
- Colonial/Postcolonial
- The Social Life of Literature
- Our Digital World
- Rags and Riches
- Aspects of Modernism
- Gender and Sexuality
- Victorian Literature
Creative Practice (if taking, students choose 1 pathway)
Creative Writing Pathway modules
- Drama and Media Writing
- Editing: Theory and Practice
English Language Pathway Options (students choose 2)
- Discourse Analysis
- History of the English Language
- Language Education and Literacy
- Psycholinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Stylistics
Film Pathway modules
- Film Genre
- Film Theory and Criticism