Module descriptions

Below you will find an entire break-down of the English BA at the University of Leicester.

First and second year modules are all core.
In your third year you will have four core modules and the choice of a Special Subject in each semester. Please note that Special Subject modules vary from year to year.

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First year modules
Reading English
A Literary Genre: The Novel
The History Of The English Language
Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Second year modules
Chaucer
Renaissance Literature
The Study Of Language
Medieval Literature
From Satire to Sensibility: Literature 1660-1789
Critical Theory
Third year modules
Compulsory Dissertation
Romantics and Victorians: Literature 1789-1870
Victorian to Modern: Literature 1870-1945
Post War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-Present Day
Special Subjects (Year 3, Semester 1)
Evolution and Entropy: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Coming of Age In America
Containment and Resistance in 1950s and 1960s American Culture
Forms Of Modern Poetry (creative writing)
Love and Death: The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Russia And France
Words and the World
Gothic: From Otranto to Wuthering Heights
Women in Literature, Culture and Society 1850-1900
Before Homosexuality? Representing Same-Sex Desire
Crime and Literature 1600-1750
Sex and Sexuality in Old English Literature
Women, Writing, Revolution
Postcolonial Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the War on Terror (creative writing)
Literature and Culture of the 1890s
Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
Libertine Literature 1660-1690
Writing Prose Fiction (creative writing)
B-Films and Serials*
British Cinema and Society in the 1980s and 1990s*
Special Subjects (Year 3, Semester 2)
Contemporary Women's Writing: 1960-Present Day
Autobiography and American Literature (creative writing)
Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Slang and the www
Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Context
Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
Representing the Holocaust
Classical and Post-Classical Latin
American Masculinities
Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
Literature, Art and the Sublime
Jane Austen: the Novels, their Contexts and Adaptations
Modern European Fiction
Harem and Hijab: Writing about Women in Islam 1716-Present (creative writing)
Telling Lives 1798-2011
English Place Names
Understanding Screenplays (creative writing)
Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
Women in Cinema

* These modules are only available to students who took Film Studies as their first-year Option Subject

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