Modules for course 8H25 | BA/ENGL
BA English Literature
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2021–22 academic year.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Optional Modules
60 to 80 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 1)
- Students must take at least 80 credits from their main discipline
20 to 40 credits from:
- QXP-1001: Creative Writing: Prose (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXP-1003: Creative Writing: Poetry (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXP-1016: Children's Fiction (Creative) (20) (Semester 2) or
QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-1062: Film Language (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-1062: Iaith y Ffilm (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-1063: Film History (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1066: Visual Cultures (20) (Semester 2) or
UXB-1066: Diwylliant Gweledol (20) (Semester 2) - LXE-1600: Transnational Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1700: Creating National Histories (20) (Semester 1)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
80 to 120 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- 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 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
0 to 40 credits from:
- QXP-2001: C/Writing: Poetry & Short Fict (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2004: Creative Writing: The Novel (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2005: Transformative Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2009: Creative Non-Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2050: Race & Gender (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-2222: History of English (20) (Semester 1)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Semester 2
40 to 80 credits from:
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
0 to 40 credits from:
- QXP-3008: Cross-Cultural Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- LXI-3011: Adaptations in European Cinema (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXP-3012: Writing and Environments (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3025: Fantastic Fictions (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3025: Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3093: Experimental Writing (20) (Semester 2)