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teaching and assessment
Our methods aim to be both lively and innovative. Consequently, English has received the highest ratings for Teaching Quality Assessment. We employ a wide range of methods, from lectures and film screenings to small group teaching. Most modules are assessed by tailored combinations of coursework and formal examinations, but students encounter a great variety of assessment approaches.
Coursework can consist of essays, oral presentations, weekly journals, or a number of other possibilities. The formal examinations are two or three hours long.
Several of our courses make no use of a formal exam; no course is assessed by formal examination alone. The weightings given to examinations and coursework vary from course to course.
We also encourage intellectual and presentational skills which will be of real use in later life. It has been said that English aims to help students ‘develop the insight of an artist, the analytical precision of a scientist and the persuasiveness of a lawyer.’ We agree.
programme content • typical degree programme example Please refer to the MA degree structure and overview on page 135.
MA Honours degree Advanced entry MA Honours degree
English Level 1
A total of 6 modules, including:
> Introduction to Literary Study
> Early Modern to Early Romantic Literature 1564-1789
Level 2
A total of 6 modules, including:
> Romantic to Victorian Literature 1789-1901
> Modernist to Contemporary Literature, 1901 to Present
Level 3
A total of 4 modules (2 modules for joint Honours), chosen from: > American Literature > Contemporary Literature
> Introduction to Creative Writing Practice
> Medieval Literature > Modernism & Modernity
> Other Americas: Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Fiction
> Post-Colonial Texts
> Romantic & Gothic Literature 1760-1830
> Shakespeare > Victorian Literature
> Vision in Film, Literature and Culture
> Writing as Making: Poetics & Creativity
Film studies modules Level 1
> Reading the Screen: An Introduction to Film Studies
> Perspectives and Movements in Cinema
Level 4
A total of 4 modules (2 modules for joint Honours), chosen from: > American Modernist Poetry
> Contemporary British Writers of Comics and Graphic Novels
> Crime and Detection in American Fiction
> Dissertation
> H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Film
> History of the Book > Image, Text and Performance > Making Writing Matter > Medievalism at the Movies > Novels of Virginia Woolf > Old English Literature
> Re-imagining Britain: Literature after the End of the Empire
> The Literature of Terror: British & American Gothic Writing
Level 2
> Classical Hollywood: An Excessively Obvious Cinema
> Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Street
Level 3 > European Cinema since 1960 > Film Art
> Vision in Film, Literature and Culture
Level 4
> Epics, Exile and Nostalgia: The Films of Kurosawa, Powell and Tarkovsky
> H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Film
> Medievalism at the Movies > Image, Text, Performance
Please visit our programme webpage for information on the English and Creative Writing joint Honours programme.
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