Modules

**First year**
Block 1: Introduction to the Novel
Block 2: Journeys and Places
Block 3: Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare OR you can select to study one route from the list below:
Drama route – Revolutions: Staging Plays
Film Studies route – Disney, Warner Bros and the Business of the Film Studio
History route – Global Cities
Journalism route – Understanding Journalism
Media route - Media, Culture and Society
Block 4: Poetry and Society

**Second year**
Block 1: Exploration and Innovation: Medieval to Early Modern Literature
Block 2: Exploring Work and Society
Block 3: Screen and Literary Adaptations OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Drama route – Theatre Revolutions
Film Studies route – Screen Archives - Preservation, Conservation and Usage
History route – Humans and the Natural World
Journalism route – Beyond News: Peace journalism and Opinion Writing
Media route – Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Block 4: Romantic and Victorian Literature

**Third year**
Block 1: Dissertation
Block 2: Print and Digital Revolutions
Block 3: World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Drama route – Performance, Identity and Activism
Film Studies route – British Cinema - Creativity, Independents and Interdependence
History route – The World on Display
Journalism route – Music, Film and Entertainment Journalism
Media route – Gender and TV Fictions
Block 4: Modernism and Magazines

Assessment methods

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, group tutorials and student-led seminars. Teaching sessions might be structured around discussion, a film screening or based in a computer lab. You will complete reading and research in advance and join in conversation with your tutor and your peers.

The first year expands your knowledge of the major literary genres (poetry, drama, fiction) and develops foundational skills in research, writing and critical analysis. The second year broadens your understanding of the development of English literature through time. The third year allows you to extend your knowledge by pursuing your own interests within the taught modules and your dissertation, which is a substantial independent written project on a literary topic of your choice.

Individual tutorials with module tutors are available in weekly ‘office hours’, at which you can discuss any aspect of your course or get help with assignments. All students are supported by a personal tutor and have access to specialist guidance in writing and study skills.

You will experience varied forms of assessment, including essays, presentations, learning journals, class tests, practical work (such as the production of a sonnet using a replica of a sixteenth-century printing press or website production), peer evaluation, creative work, self-evaluation, blogs and dissertation. This range of assessment methods will enable you to develop a broad spectrum of communication and technological skills, alongside an ability to think critically, independently, flexibly and imaginatively.

**Contact hours**
You will normally attend 8-10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures, seminars and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake around 30 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Tuition fees

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