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Course modules BA English Literature


First year The Enlightenment Introduction to Literature Close Reading Skills/Writing Skills


One option


Second year Early Modern Literature Versions of Modernity Approaches to Text One option or year abroad in Europe (ERASMUS programme)


Third year Four literature options*


BA English and United States Literature


First year The Enlightenment Introduction to Literature Introduction to US Literature Close Reading Skills One half-option


Second year


United States Literature since 1850 Approaches to Text Early Modern Literature or Versions of Modernity


One option


Third year Four literature options* (at least one in US literature)


BA Creative Writing


First year The Enlightenment Introduction to Literature Creative Writing Skills Introduction to Rhetoric One option


Second year Creative Writing Approaches to Text One literature option One option


Third year Four literature options (at least two in creative writing)


BA Literature and Myth


First year The Enlightenment Introduction to Literature Close Reading Skills One option One half-option


Second year Literature and Myth Two from:


Early Modern Literature Versions of Modernity US Literature Since 1850 Approaches to Text One option Or year abroad in Europe (ERASMUS programme)


Third year Four literature options* (at least two in myth)


BA Literature and Sociology


First year The Enlightenment Introduction to Literature Sociological Analysis I One option


Second year Sociological Analysis II One sociology option Two literature options


Third year Sociological Analysis III One sociology option Two literature options


BA Literature and/with Modern Languages


First year Introduction to Literature Close Reading Skills/Writing Skills


One language option One language option or humanities or social science option


Second year Two literature options One language option One language option or one literature option


Third year Year abroad


Fourth year Two literature options One language option One language option or one literature option


* One option can be replaced by independent study


For other courses involving literature, see Film Studies, Drama, Modern Languages, History, Philosophy, and Politics entries.


This information is a guide to course content and is subject to review on an annual basis.


allow you to study areas of literature that are of interest to you. In your final year, you can opt to replace one of your taught modules with an independent study, which will allow you to develop your own academic interests in depth.


BA English and United States Literature offers a varied and flexible curriculum focused on the study of English and United States literatures, encompassing several genres and periods. In your first year, a core module on United States literature will allow you to study


classic texts regarded as establishing US literature as a specific literature from English. This study will help you answer questions like: what is American literature? What makes writing in the US different from other writing in the English language? Modules in your second and third year will allow you to study major texts, problems and issues in twentieth-century United States literature, while optional modules mean you can choose topics of interest to you, like film, myth, postcolonial literature or science fiction.


BA Literature and Myth sets out to investigate the uniqueness of myth. It examines the relationship between myth and literature, and provides the theoretical grounding for a contemporary understanding of classic forms of myth through the study of a number of key literary and mythological texts drawn from a range of cultures. In your first year, alongside core your modules, you can choose options that look at literature in the eighteenth, nineteenth or twentieth century, European literature, United States literature or film.


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