English Literature (Foundation Entry)

This module provides you with a foundation in study skills by guiding you through the skills required to produce high quality academic work. Topics covered in the module include academic writing, referencing and critical analysis.

This interesting module will introduce you to critical thinking and discussion, and essential skills for success at university. A range of world issues and current affairs within broadly defined areas such as, political systems, environmentalism, law and justice, and culture and society, will be explored.

This module aims to develop your digital literacies. You'll have opportunities to focus on a topic within your intended honours degree (target award) Course. You will learn appropriate digital research skills, learn which digital tools and methods are suitable for your target award, and develop independent learning skills.

In this module you will explore group working, negotiating and task-based learning while building a reflective learning portfolio. You will choose a project to research, present your findings and exhibit your work as well as reflecting on your learning.

This module introduces you to English Language & Linguistics diversity and terminology across contexts, while also exploring key literary forms like poetry, fiction, and drama. It involves creative writing workshops and research, encompassing contemporary formats like short stories and scripts.

This module focuses on enhancing language learning processes, fostering reflective skills, and building research and presentation abilities. Additionally, it introduces Area Studies, promoting intercultural awareness and analysis.

This module provides insights into Education Studies and includes an introduction to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). It aims to equip you with foundational knowledge for higher-level study by covering key debates, concepts, and policies.

This module offers an introduction to university-level humanities. It covers history, philosophy, politics, international relations, and religion. It addresses essential skills in working with evidence, forming arguments, and communication, mainly through applied ethics questions.

This module will develop your global writing analysis skills, with the option of creating original creative work. You'll explore modern approaches to portraying landscapes across various genres. Theoretical aspects cover literature's connections to place, environmental concerns, and globalisation. You'll hone English language skills for academic writing and research, and gain insights into the publishing industry and opportunities.

The module introduces you to a range of American literary, and cultural texts and practices such as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, film, television, and music. Focusing on the areas of identity and representation, you'll explore America’s national ideologies as they are constructed and contested in US popular culture, from early Native American creation myths to the tempestuous writings and music of the contemporary multicultural USA.

The concepts and ideas within literature and text will be introduced in this module. You'll develop close reading skills and focus on the importance of interpretations sensitive to the role of context in all its forms. You will examine texts using a range of strategies to provide a useful introduction to the field of literacy theory.

This module will allow you to explore some of the key features of the period including the engagement with classic literature and myth. You will be encouraged to evaluate and analyse a range of Renaissance literature encompassing drama, poetry and non-fictional writing.

You will build on work undertaken in EN1215 Reading Texts, Literary Theory. You'll get the opportunity to develop the critical skills necessary for advanced undergraduate work. You'll become aware of a variety of critical approaches to the study of English Literature and the existence of a debate between and amongst these approaches.

Enable you to practice a variety of techniques for writing fiction and drama and reflect critically on your writing process Develop a critical and theoretical understanding of the ‘principles of story’ in historical and contemporary context Develop your ability to read, interpret and evaluate contemporary fiction and drama in light of the way it conforms to or challenges these principles Enable you to recognise the connections between fiction and drama as well as the unique challenges and possibilities of writing for page or performance.

This module aims to aid personal and professional development, while honing writing skills. You will consider the differences between academic writing and creative/marketing/plain text forms. You will learn about punctuation for professional purposes, as well as conventions for essay writing and referencing.

The module will introduce you to World Literature in translation and will consider the most important critical concepts for the practice of reading texts of this kind. The module will explore the role of languages, cultures and history in a global context as they inform the artistic productions of culturally diverse nations. It will involve detailed study of some highly distinctive cultural products and practices and will aim to challenge some ingrained cultural assumptions and presumptions about our ‘Others’ – those subjects most often represented ‘for’ us by writers from a similar background to our own. Ethical and political issues in the translation of certain languages into a hegemonic ‘world language’ such as English will be discussed with reference to critical concepts such as World literature and globalisation. Assessment is two essays.

This module will help you learn research skills alone and in groups, preparing you for careers and dissertation work. It will enhance your subject-specific knowledge and general skills while showcasing employability skills like planning, teamwork, and problem-solving.

This module will examine a selection of poems and novels from the late-eighteenth century through to the First World War. This will enhance your skills in assessing useful resources in print and digital formats.

To engage with and critique the theory and practice of writing short fiction. To practice the techniques of writing short fiction and writing about this form/genre. To develop a critical and theoretical understanding of the short story as a distinct form in historical and contemporary contexts and markets. To encourage critical reading, selectivity and focused consideration of short fiction writers and their potential influence on contemporary writing practice.

You'll begin by examining audience and the different bands within children’s literature. Explore a range of techniques including voice, character, setting and structure, as well as how to write and critique specific sub-genres. Gain an understanding of the current trends, the relationship between words and images and issues such as appropriate language and subject matter, censorship and the gatekeepers who inform and shape what children read. 

This module will provide you with an exciting experience to revisit your favourite childhood tales. The major European collections of tales, such as those of Perrault, Grimm and Andersen, will provide the main focus of study, but non-European collections will also be considered.

On this module you'll be introduced to the 'graphic novel'. Emphasis will be placed on the close reading of these texts and the different aesthetic strategies used by these writers to develop a broad understanding of the genre. You'll also look at the criticisms of this genre, generating a critical framework for addressing the different aspects of its storytelling.

This first part of this module takes in canonical texts from the modernist period, to ensure that you have an understanding of the work of major figures in early twentieth century literature. You will examine the cultural and historical contexts in which the texts are produced, focussing on formal innovation across different kinds of literature.

The English Literature Dissertation module allows you to pursue an independent area of scholarly research within the field of ‘Literature.’ The dissertation takes the form of an extended piece of written work (7500-10,000 words) on a topic chosen by you with approval of the dissertation tutor.

You'll begin by examining audience and the different bands within children’s literature. Explore a range of techniques including voice, character, setting and structure, as well as how to write and critique specific sub-genres. Gain an understanding of the current trends, the relationship between words and images and issues such as appropriate language and subject matter, censorship and the gatekeepers who inform and shape what children read. 

On this module you'll develop your knowledge and skills of writing for science fiction and fantasy. You'll gain a theoretical and historical understanding of the genres and how to critically approach texts. You will be expected to familiarise yourself with a range of critical material and different fantasy and science fiction short stories, and to show evidence of your understanding in class discussions and your written work.

This module is a study of writings, films, visual art and material objects of the African diaspora from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. It will concentrate on Black British, Caribbean, African American and African texts. The module will view the texts by Africans in the diaspora as products of shared cultural heritages and as responses to slavery, colonialism and racism. It will be split into two parts - the first will use Gilroy’s concept to explore the conceptual framework of the Black Atlantic and the second will consider how the legacy of the Black Atlantic has been rewritten. Key texts might include Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Jackie Kay’s Trumpet, Slave Narratives and images of slavery from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries as well as artworks providing visual accounts of the Middle Passage. Assessment is a presentation and a research essay.  

This module aims to help you to evaluate the relationship between fictional and filmic texts. You will investigate the extent to which such texts are the product of social, political, cultural and generic contexts. This module will help with more opportunities to analysis different written assessments.

In this module, you'll study various Shakespearean dramas to improve your close reading and performance analysis skills. You'll explore historical contexts, modern adaptations in different media, and delve into critical and theoretical interpretations of Shakespeare's works.

This module will introduce you to Gothic literature with diverse examples, improving analytical skills across media and deepening historical understanding. It refines research and writing by engaging with non-Eurocentric Gothic, postcolonial themes, and the Neo-Gothic's relevance.