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LIT1037 – Identity under Construction: Late Twentieth-Century Literature
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Claire Allen
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Identity Under Construction: Late Twentieth-Century Literature, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Identity Under Construction: Late Twentieth-Century Literature (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module offers an introduction to British Literature post-1945 to the present day. It considers key developments in poetry, drama and the novel in the context of literary movements and social change.It examines a range of writers portraying the mainstream and margins of British culture. It is designed to develop students' skills in reading a variety of contemporary genres, and to encourage them to begin to apply theoretical and critical considerations to liteature.
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LIT1038 – Contemporary Shakespeares
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Richard Chamberlain
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Contemporary Shakespeares, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Contemporary Shakespeares (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the study of Shakespeare?s plays at University level (along with essential historical backgrounds and scholarly methodolgies) and to explore the range of meanings illuminated in the plays by contemporary cultural concerns, recent critical perspectives, and forms of adaptation into other artforms and media, including film and stage performance. Students will be encouraged to play an active role in debating these meanings and advancing persuasive arguments in defence of their own interpretations, thus enhancing key analytical and evaluative skills for degree-level study of English.Note: For the Essay with Annotated Bibliography assignment, students will be expected to write about themes and interpretations of the plays, using a range of contemporary perspectives. The focus of the Presentation will be upon contemporary cultural uses and appropriations of Shakespeare.
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LIT1045 – Digital Culture and Print Media
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Rod Rosenquist
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Digital Culture And Print Media, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Digital Culture And Print Media, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the relationship between literature and evolving media culture and technologies, with emphasis on the modern age. Understanding print and digital formats within mediated cultural frameworks allow for exploration of contemporary understandings of new skills and capabilities for reading now.
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LIT1046 – Decolonising the Bookshelf
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Sonya Andermahr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Decolonising The Bookshelf, Coursework: 100% STD - Decolonising The Bookshelf, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module takes up the challenge of the Black Lives Matter movement to ask the question: what does it mean to decolonise the literary canon? It explores literary representations of global ethnic majorities within a range of texts written in English and drawn from different historical periods.
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LIT1047 – Writing the Wild
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Phillippa Bennett
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Writing The Wild, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Writing The Wild, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module explores literary representations of the natural world and the diverse ways in which writers have responded to the wild and the non-human. The module emphasises the significance of literary texts in contributing to contemporary debates regarding our relationship with the environment and other animals.
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LIT1048 – American Dreams, American Nightmares: Race, Class and Gender
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: David Simmons
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - American Dreams, American Nightmares: Race, Class And Gender, Coursework: 100% STD - American Dreams, American Nightmares: Race, Class And Gender, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English; BA English (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students with a survey of key American texts and writers from the Colonial period to the Middle of the Twentieth Century to explore how literature offers perspectives on the key thematic and formal concerns of US fiction.
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LIT1049 – Reading and Writing Our World
Field: ENGLISH
Co-ordinator: Rod Rosenquist
Credit Value: 20
Level: 4
Timetable Slot: Semester 1 or 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Reading And Writing Our World (4 Year Programme) Semester 1, Coursework: 100% STD - Reading And Writing Our World (Semester 1), Coursework: 100% STD2 - Reading And Writing Our World (Semester 2), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA English;
Description: The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the dual roles involved in the construction of textual meaning: writing and reading. In exploring imaginative and critical reading and writing practices in a range of genres, students will engage in identifying the relevance of textual creativity to real-world applications.