English requirements
| Overall | Reading | Writing | Listening | Speaking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IELTS | 6.5 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 |
Course structure
In Year 1, you take a core and a compulsory module at Level 4.
In Year 2, you take two School of Arts or School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy option modules, both at Level 4.
In Year 3, you take a core module and choose one School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module, both at Level 5
In Year 4, you choose one option module from the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing and one School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module, both at Level 5.
In Year 5, you choose one option module from the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing and one School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module, both at Level 6.
In Year 6, you choose one Level 6 School of Arts, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy or School of Law option module. You also write a dissertation on a topic of your choice (7000 words).
Module groups
Year 1 core and compulsory modules
- Production of the Human: Decolonising the Canon
- Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques
Year 3 core module
Indicative English, theatre and creative writing option modules
- Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance
- America Rewired: US Literature and Culture since the 1960s
- American Centuries: Literatures of Slavery and Freedom
- Biography and Autobiography
- Blake
- Critically Queer
- Ecopoetics
- Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Drama
- Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Poetry
- European Drama and Theatre: Gods, Ideas and Adaptations
- Fin-De-Siecle
- Finding a Leg to Stand On: Clinical, Critical and Creative Approaches to the Human Body
- Flight Paths: Migration, Diaspora and Identity
- Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
- Literature and Cultural Identity: Intersectionalities of Race, Class and Gender
- Literature and the Politics of Feelings
- Literature and Visual Culture
- Literature, Empire and Race
- Making the Medieval Human
- Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
- Medieval and Renaissance Literatures
- Medieval Realms
- Modernism and its Others
- Narratives of the Body
- Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I)
- Poetry and Power: Text, Voice, Song
- Poetry Workshop 1
- Poetry Workshop 2: The Open Page
- Reading 21st Century Fictions
- Reading Literature
- Responding to Animals: Adam to the Zoo
- Romance
- Romanticism: Reason, Revolution, Imagination
- Science Fiction
- Shakespeare
- The Creative Critical Seam
- The Cultural Production of Space
- The Global Eighteenth Century
- The Novel: Writing the Modern World
- The Victorians and their World
- Theatre Languages
- Theories of Theatricality and Performance
- Tragedy
- Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
- Writing London
Indicative history of art option modules
- Art and Society Between 1900 and the Present
- Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century
- Art History: A Survey
- Debates in Art History
- Impressionist Paris: Modernity and Difference
- Post-War Art and the Politics of Memory, From the 1960s to the Present
- The Immigrant Experience in Modern British Art
Indicative languages and cultures option modules
- French 1
- Japanese 1
- Reading Transnational Cultures
- Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality
- Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
- The Latin American Novel
- Understanding Culture: Language and Texts
Indicative media and cultural studies option modules
- Cultural Identity and the Media
- Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
- Introduction to Cinema
- Introduction to Digital Culture
- Media, Technology and Culture
- Memory and Media
Indicative politics option modules
- British and comparative foreign policy analysis
- Capitalism and the Politics of Markets
- Challenges in Contemporary Politics
- Comparative Studies of Islamist Movements
- Contemporary British Politics
- Europe After Brexit: Cooperation and Crises
- Food, Politics and Society
- Governing by Numbers
- International Migration and Transnationalism
- Introduction to Global Politics
- Introduction to International Political Economy
- Politics and the Middle East
- Politics, Power and Human Nature
- Social and Political Theory
- Surveying Political Research
- Transformations in Modern Politics: Democracy, Conflict and Globalisation
- War and Modern Society
Indicative geography option modules
- Anthropology of Space, Architecture and the Landscape (Level 6)
- Critical Race Studies: Understanding Asian and Black Experiences in Britain
- Culture and Development
- European Society, Economy and Geography
- Geographies of Revolt: Movements, Uprisings, and Social Transformation (Level 5)
- Globalization in the Contemporary World
- Material Culture, Consumption and the Construction of Self (Level 5)
- Social Inequalities and Diversities
- The Politics of Race and Diaspora
Indicative history, classics and archaeology option modules
- Archaeology of the Everyday
- Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
- Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453 (level 5)
- Britannia's Embrace: The British Empire and the World
- Contested Nation: Germany, 1871-1918 (level 5)
- Crime, Poverty and Protest in England and Beyond, 1500-1800
- Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today
- Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
- From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries
- Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context
- Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918
- Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture
- Late Medieval and Early
Visit the official programme website for more information.