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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2018

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

The following is the recommended programme structure for the first year of study. However, it is possible to be flexible; please contact your Programme Director to finalise your particular programme of study.

Compulsory courses

Research Skills and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics

Must be taken during Semester 1

Research Methods and Problems in English Literature

Must be taken during Semester 2

Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond

Must be taken during Semester 2

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

The following is the recommended programme structure for the second year of study. However, it is possible to be flexible; please contact your Programme Director to finalise your particular programme of study.

* Two 20 credit optional courses must be taken in total, one in semester 1, the other in semester 2.

* The optional courses listed are recommendations although students are welcome to take 20 credits of other level 11 courses. These enrolments should be discussed with your Personal Tutor or Programme Director.

* Please note that all optional courses are subject to availability and that some courses may have limited spaces.

Compulsory courses

MSc Literature and Modernity 1900-to the present Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

These elective courses are Postgraduate ONLY

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Contemporary American Fiction

Ideology and Literature

OR

These elective courses are JOINTLY TAUGHT with Undergraduate honours level

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry

The Long Summer: Edwardian Texts and Contexts, 1900-1910

Neo-imperialisms

Contemporary Postcolonial Writing (PG Version)

Decolonization and the Novel (PG Version)

Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (PG Version)

Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940 (PG Version)

Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version)

Fiction and Espionage

Global LGBT Fiction

AND

These elective courses are Postgraduate ONLY

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Modernism before the War

Tragedy and Modernity

Black American Fiction

New Beginnings to the End of Days: Writing the American Republic from Reconstruction to 9/11

Green Thoughts: Landscape, Environment and Literature (PG Version)

Exploring the Novel

Literature, Reading, Mental Health (PG Version)

OR

These elective courses are JOINTLY TAUGHT with Undergraduate honours level

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Postcolonial Writing

Black Atlantic

Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature

Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing

The American Novel, 1920-1960

Modernism: Text, Image, Object (Level 11)

Censorship (PG Version)

Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiments in Waywardness (PG Version)

The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version)

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