Modules for course 8H25 | BA/ENGL
BA English Literature
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2020–21 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2021–22; 2022–23.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Optional Modules
100 credits from:
- QXP-1001: Creative Writing: Prose (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-1112: Language, Literature & Culture (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may choose one (approved) 20-credit module from outside the School.
Year 2 Modules
Optional Modules
120 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2013: Renaissance and Reformation (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) or
QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2064: Film Theory (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 2)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Semester 2
Optional Modules
80 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3114: Dystopian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)