English Level 6 (Year F) Overview

OVERVIEW (ENGLISH LEVEL 6)

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• In Year F:
• Single-Honours students take ESH6000 English Research Dissertation, plus an additional 90 credits of elective modules: one 30-credit module and one 15-credit module in each semester (read full programme requirements)
• Joint Honours English and Drama students must take 60 credits in each discipline, including at least one 30-credit research project (DRA329 Written Research Project,  DRA344 Practice-based Research Project, ESH6000 English Research Dissertation) (read full programme requirements)
• Creative Writing students take one 30-credit research project (either ESH6000 English Research Dissertation, or ESH6199 Creative Writing Dissertation), elective modules in Creative Writing to the value of 30 credits, plus an additional 60 credits of elective modules in English (including at least one 30-credit module)
• All other Joint-Honours students take 60 credits of modules in English (including at least one 30-credit module), and should find out the requirements for their other discipline from the School in question (read full programme requirements)

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN

30-credit modules

• Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 to 1600 (ESH6063)
  
• Shakespeare: the Play, the Word, and the Book (ESH366)
  

15-credit modules

• Medieval Dreams and Fantasies (ESH6050)
  
• Grief and Consolation: Writing Death in the Middle Ages (ESH6078)
  
• Reading Early Modern Recipes (ESH6090)
  

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, ROMANTICISM, AND NINETEENTH CENTURY

30-credit modules

• Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: The Revolutionary 1790s (ESH6079)
• Reading Late Victorian Literature (ESH6083)
• Romantic Women Writers (ESH6065)
• Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century (ESH6067)
  

15-credit modules

• Cultures of Inequality: Narrating Class 1815-1914 (ESH6034)
• Gender and Imagination in Victorian Poetry (ESH385)
• Jane Austen: Regency Novelist (ESH6046)
• Victorian Sensation Fiction (ESH380)

MODERN, CONTEMPORARY AND POSTCOLONIAL

30-credit modules

• Enchantment and Enquiry in Modern(ish) Writing 1900-60 (ESH6096)
• Modern Literature and Democracy (ESH6064)
• Reading Global Graphic Narratives (ESH6085)
• Reading the Contemporary Middle East (ESH6074)
• Time, Narrative, and Culture (ESH6066)
• Writing Black and Asian Britain (ESH6086)

15-credit modules

• Contemporary Poetry (ESH6072)
• Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture (ESH6025)
  
• Writing South Africa: Race, Nation and Text (ESH379)

GENRE STUDIES AND CRITICAL THEORY

30-credit modules

• American Ecologies (ESH6093)
• Criticism and Code (ESH6087)
• Feminism(s) (ESH393)
• Reading Psychoanalysis Reading Literature (ESH370)

15-credit modules

• Ancient Myth / Modern Theory (ESH348)
• Creative Writing Prose Fiction (ESH6043)
• The Great American Novel (ESH6098)
  
• Magical Narratives: Transformations of Romance (ESH6056)
  
• Poetry and Media (ESH6051)
  
• Reading Childhood / Writing Children (ESH382)

RESEARCH MODULE

• English Research Dissertation (ESH6000)

PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Livelihoods in English (ESH6044)

ENGLISH WITH CREATIVE WRITING ONLY

• Creative Writing Advanced Fiction: Serious Play - Ludic Strategies for Writing Fiction (ESH6109)
• Creative Writing Advanced Poetry: The Poetics of Translation (ESH6107)
• Creative Writing and Performance (ESH6112)
  
• Creative Writing Dissertation (ESH6199)
  
• Narrative Theory for Creative Writers (ESH6102)
  
• The Past Persists: Hauntings & Memory in Creative Writing (ESH6114)