SED Undergraduate Module Directory

• In Year 2:
• Single-Honours students take one 30-credit module from each of three period-specific lists (Lists 1, 2, and 3), plus an additional 30 credits of elective modules
• Joint-Honours students take one 30-credit module from Lists 1-2, and at least 15 credits of elective modules from Lists 3-4
• Creative Writing students take ESH5101 Creative Writing Prose: the Short Story (15 credits) and ESH5102 Creative Writing Poetry (15 credits), plus an additional 90 credits of elective modules (which must include 30 credits from Lists 1 and 2, and 30 credits from Lists 3 and 4)
• All students take at least 15 credits of QMUL Model modules (which may be in English, or in another discipline of study)
• Read the programme requirements for Year 2 English Students

LIST 1: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY-MODERN STUDIES

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones (ESH283)
• Renaissance Literary Culture (ESH267)

LIST 2: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, ROMANTICISM, NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City (ESH288)
• Romantics and Revolutionaries (ESH286)
• Victorian Fictions (ESH279)

LIST 3: MODERN, CONTEMPORARY, AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

• The Long Contemporary (ESH293)
• Modernism (ESH213)
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures (ESH285)

LIST 4: SPECIAL OPTIONS

• American Romanticism (ESH255)
• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London (ESH249)
• The Court of Henry VIII: Then and Now (ESH272)
• Dickens and the City (ESH208)
• Early Modern Drama (ESH292)
• Introduction to Old English (ESH253)
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights (ESH271)
• The Long Eighteenth Century in Ten Objects (ESH297)
• Queering Utopia (ESH275)
• Satire, Scandal and Society 1700-1740 (ESH223)
• Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century (ESH264)
• Text, Art and Performance in London (ESH227)
• The Thousand and One Nights (ESH296)
• Women and their Writing in the Romantic Period (ESH294)
• Writing Now (ESH274)

ENGLISH WITH CREATIVE WRITING ONLY

• Creative Writing Poetry (ESH5102)
• Creative Writing Prose: the Short Story (ESH5101)

PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Livelihoods in English (ESH6044)