English Literature second year modules

Optional modules (may include) 

Shakespeare Options (students choose at least 1)  

  • Shakespeare: Elizabethan
  • Shakespeare: Jacobean 

English Literature Options (students choose at least 4)  

  • Creative Practice (see below for options) 
  • Decadents and Moderns
  • Earliest English 
  • Literature 1950-Present 
  • Popular Fiction Before the Novel 
  • Renaissance Poetry
  • Restoration and Revolution
  • Romantics and Victorians

Creative Practice (if taking, students choose 1 pathway) 

Creative Writing Pathway Options (students choose 2)  

  • Drama and Media Writing
  • Editing: Theory and Practice 
  • Poetry Writing
  • Prose Writing 
  • Identity and Cultural Narratives

English Language Pathway Options (students choose 2)  

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • History of the English Language
  • Language Acquisition and Literacy
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sociolinguistics

Film Pathway Options (students choose 2)  

  • Aesthetics of Television
  • American and World Cinema
  • Film Genre
  • Film Theory and Criticism