Modules for course 065C | BA/ELJ
BA English Literature with Journalism
These were the modules for this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- UXS-1001: Intro to Practical Journalism (20) Core or
UXC-1001: Cyfl. i Newyddiaduraeth Ymarf. (20) Core - QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20)
Semester 2
Optional Modules
60 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 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-1112: Language, Literature & Culture (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may take up to 20 credits in another School
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
40 credits from:
- UXS-2038: Journalism and Risk (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2076: Global News Agenda (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2401: Practical Journalism: ELD (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-2401: Newyddiaduraeth Ymarferol: MCD (20) (Semester 1)
Optional Modules
80 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 2)
- QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2027: Literature and Modernity (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
- Students must take (at least) 1 module dealing with Literature before 1800, and one from post-1800 modules.
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
40 credits from:
- UXS-3038: Journalism & Risk Society (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3076: Global News Agenda (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3401: Practical Journalism: ELD (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-3401: Newyddiaduraeth Ymarferol: MCD (20) (Semester 1)
Optional Modules
80 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3028: Literature in the Community (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3086: Shakespeare's Afterlives (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3088: Bob Dylan (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3102: The 1820s: Print Explosion (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-3103: Wales: A European Contact Zone (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may NOT take a Dissertation in both English Literature and the other WITH discipline.