BA Film and English Studies (QW36)

Course Code UNU1QW36301
Duration 3 Years
Attendance Full Time
Award Degree of Bachelor of Arts

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This programme brings together approaches from Film studies and English studies, drawing on a range of critical tools vital for the analysis of texts, histories, and institutions relevant to both disciplines, and placing them within broader social and cultural contexts. There is a strong emphasis on history in the film studies component, from silent cinema to contemporary Hollywood and global cinema, as well as modules focusing on particular film genres. Television studies modules are also available to you. The English studies component offers lots of choice, drawing on expertise in literature, creative writing and drama. You can also choose to engage in some practical work as part of your studies, with modules including 16mm film, video and television studio production in the second year, and individual projects in the final year.

While there are certain fixed points during the course, and certain minimum requirements, there is also a great deal of flexibility allowing students to create their own pathways, in consultation with their academic adviser. It is therefore possible to build up your Film Studies work or your English Studies work to nearly two thirds of your course.

You may also choose to specialise in particular aspects of either subject. Thus, if you have a special interest in television or popular culture you may want to do more modules in these areas. Or you may prefer to build into your course an emphasis on Shakespearean studies, or on women's studies, or on theories of representation in literature and film. Other students may have a particular interest in early cinema, or British or American cinema, or the nineteenth or twentieth century novel, or poetry, and may decide to weight their programme accordingly. This list by no means exhausts the possibilities! While there is a generous range of options in film and television history, theory and criticism, and in practical film and video production, there is an even wider range of options in English Studies.

Our Film Studies programmes make full use of the University’s projection facilities, with a screening programme that gives students the opportunity to see rare and high-quality archival film prints. The presence in Norwich of the East Anglian Film Archive is another important asset. UEA also has well-respected student media, providing opportunities to develop your skills outside the formal programme.

Some recent and upcoming film and television modules include: Television Documentary; Television Sitcom; Film Noir; Action Cinema; Screenwriters and Adaptation; English Heritage, English Cinema; British Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s; Contemporary British Cinema; Hitchcock; John Ford and the Western; Spielberg, Lucas and Contemporary Hollywood; Gender, Genre and Contemporary Cinema.

In the first year the core modules include Key Issues in Film Studies, a lecture/seminar module introducing a range of topics central to the study of film, Film History: Cinema to 1930, a seminar on cinema in the 'silent' period, a lecture/seminar module entitled Film History: Classical Cinema 1930 – 1960, Cinema and TV in Contemporary Britain and Introduction to Cultural Studies, which introduces a range of topics central to the study of English cultural studies, focusing on a particular historical period (usually mid-19th Century), and one further module in English Literature and/or History.

In Years 2 and 3, the Film Studies component includes a compulsory lecture/seminar module on film history since 1960 and three further modules chosen from director-based modules, genre-based modules, issue-based modules and practical modules. In your final year you may choose to undertake a dissertation on a film or television topic which is independently researched and written under appropriate supervision.

The English Studies component consists of two compulsory modules in Cultural Theory and Analysis and Critiques of Culture and three others to be selected from a wide range of modules in English Literature, History and Culture.

Additionally, you have three free choice modules at your disposal (two in Year 2 and one in Year 3) which you can use to take further modules in Film or English or to explore unfamiliar subjects. You might turn to other, related Humanities subjects (art history, drama, philosophy, creative writing). But, equally, you may turn in a completely different direction. Free choice modules give you access to modules offered right across the University.

Assessment

Key skills, issues and ideas are introduced in lectures given by all members of faculty. More specialist study is undertaken in small group seminars. These are chosen from a range offered within the School and across the University. You will also spend time studying and researching in the library or carrying out practical work or projects. In most subject areas, you are assessed at the end of each year on the basis of coursework and, in some cases, project and examination results. In your final year, you will write a dissertation on a topic of your choice and with the advice of tutors. There is no final examination. Your final degree result is determined by the marks you receive in years two and four

All students joining degrees in the School of Film and Television Studies would find it helpful to read Timothy Corrigan's A Short Guide to Writing about Film, (2010, 7th Edition, New York: Longman) over the summer prior to joining the University of East Anglia.

Course Organiser

Dr Rayna Denison

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Why Choose Us?

UEA was one of the first British universities to develop the study of cinema and television.

The Student Experience Survey ranks UEA third in the country - two places higher than last year's result and overtaking both Oxford and Cambridge... Read More >

We have 12 dedicated members of academic staff, with several more colleagues contributing on a part-time basis. More than 40 graduates of the MA and PhD programmes hold teaching posts at universities in the UK and elsewhere. In the most recent quality assessments by the High Education Funding Council, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level was adjudged excellent (with a score of 23 out of a possible 24) and our research was placed in the top three of UK institutions.

Each year, some 60 undergraduates are registered for one of the Film and Television Studies degrees (BA Media Studies, BA Film and English Studies, BA Film and American Studies and BA Film and Television Studies). Teaching deals mainly with the history and current shape of British and American cinema and television and with film theory and criticism. We also run modules on other world cinemas and on television, video and film production. The BA degrees in Film and English Studies and Film and American Studies are interdisciplinary, with Film or Television Studies taking up between a half and two thirds of the course. The BA in Film and American Studies is a four year course with the third year spent studying at a university in the USA or Australia.

We have hosted a number of very successful events in recent years, including major conferences on British cinema (1988), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002), Post-Feminism and popular culture (2004), Going Cheap: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres (2008), and the Anglia TV and the History of ITV conference (2008).

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Entry Requirements

A Level AAB-ABB including B in English Literature or English Language and Literature
International Baccalaureate 33-32 including 5 in Higher Level English
Scottish Advanced Highers AAB-ABB
Irish Leaving Certificate AAAABB-AABBBB
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European Baccalaureate 80-75%

Students for whom English is a foreign language

If English is not your first language you must have a recognised English Language qualification: Minimum IELTS 6.5 with a 6 in each sub-section and 6.5 in writing, or TOEFL 585 (238 CBT / 93 IBT).

Minimum Grade C in UCLES Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)

Interviews

The majority of candidates will not be called for an interview. However, for some students an interview will be requested. These are normally quite informal and generally cover topics such as your current studies, reasons for choosing the course and your personal interests and extra-curricular activities.

Students will have the opportunity to meet with an academic individually on a Visit Day in order to gain a deeper insight into the course(s) you have applied for.

Gap Year

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year.

Deferred Entry - We welcome applications for deferred entry, believing that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry and may wish to contact the appropriate Admissions Office directly to discuss this further.

Special Entry Requirements

We are unable to accept A level General Studies as part of our entry requirements for the School of Film and Television.

As part of the A level entry requirements, you should have at least a grade B in A level English Literature or English Literature and Language.

GCSE Offer

Students are required have Mathematics and English at Grade C or above at GCSE Level.

Assessment

For the majority of candidates the most important factors in assessing the application will be past and future achievement in examinations, academic interest in the subject being applied for, personal interest and extra-curricular activities and the confidential reference.

We consider applicants as individuals and accept students from a very wide range of educational backgrounds and spend time considering your application in order to reach an informed decision relating to your application. Typical offers are indicated above. Please note, there may be additional subject entry requirements specific to individual degree courses.

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3

Year 1

Compulsory Study (120 credits)

Students will select 120 credits from the following module(s).

Name	Code	Credits	Period
Analysing Film and Television The module is designed to provide students with core study skills and techniques and methods of textual analysis. The module will cover the analysis of a range of formal features and frameworks such as narrative, mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and sound used in the analysis of film and television. The study skills covered will include use of the library and internet for research, as well as note taking, essay planning and the conventions of academic writing. In the process the module will cover issues such as referencing and plagiarism. It will be taught by lecture, seminar and screening. more...	FTVF1F09	20	Semester 1
Literature in History 1 This is the main introductory module to the study of literature. It aims to help new students to read historically, by offering a range of models of the relationship between literature and history, explored through the study of selected historical and literary moments. The module is taught by a weekly lecture, with an accompanying seminar. more...	LDCE1F01	20	Semester 1
Literature in History II This module follows on from Literature in History I, taking in more recent history, and including discussion of how writers of the present make use of the past. The module is taught by lectures, with an accompanying seminar. Attendance at both lectures and seminars is compulsory. more...	LDCE1F10	20	Semester 2
Studies in Film History This module provides an introduction to the narrative history of film from the mid 20th century to the present, as it is commonly understood within Film Studies. The purpose here is not to convince students of the rightness of this history but rather to familiarise them with the key points of reference in the field. The module is also designed to familiarise students with a range of objects and methods within the practice of film history and to use these to encourage students to start asking questions about the construction of the established and accepted narrative of film history. more...	FTVF1F06	20	Semester 2
What Is Film History? This module provides an introduction to the narrative history of film in the late 19th century and early 20th century, as it is commonly understood within Film Studies. The purpose here is not to convince students of the rightness of this history but rather to familiarise them with the key points of reference in the field. The module is also designed to familiarise students with a range of objects and methods within the practice of film history and to use these to encourage students to start asking questions about the construction of the established and accepted narrative of film history. more...	FTVF1F11	20	Semester 1
Writing Texts This module explores the culture and anthropology of writing, and addresses issues such as the differences between writing and speaking, between literary and non-literary texts, and the writer's relationship with readers. In weekly lectures and seminar groups, we will look at the writing process itself - drafting, revising, editing, translating - and will explore how and why texts come into being, and how they work to position the reader or to generate readerly interaction. The module is taught by a lecture, with an accompanying seminar. more...	LDCE1F14	20	Semester 2

Year 2

Compulsory Study (40 credits)

Students will select 40 credits from the following module(s).

Name	Code	Credits	Period
Film Theory This module explores aspects of film theory as it has developed over the last hundred years or so. It encompasses topics including responses to cinema by filmmaker theorists such as Sergei Eisenstein; influential formulations of and debates about realism and film aesthetics associated with writers and critics such as Andr?? Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Rudolf Arnheim and Bela B??l??zs; the impact of structuralism, theories of genre, narrative and models of film language; theories of authorship; feminist film theory and its emphasis on psychoanalysis; intertextuality; theories of race and representation; reception models. The module is taught by lecture, screening and seminar. Students will work with primary texts - both films and theoretical writings - and have the opportunity to explore in their written work the ways in which film theories can be applied to film texts. more...	FTVF2F43	20	Semester 1
Research Training The module is designed to provide students with the key concepts and methods necessary to devise and execute an independent research project whether using traditional academic methods or practice based research. As a result, it will cover the key processes involved in devising and focusing a research project, reflexively undertaking the research itself and writing up one's results. In the process, students will be shown how to position their work in relation to an intellectual context; devise the research questions that are practical and realistic; and developing research methods through which to address these questions. The module will be taught by lecture and seminar. more...	FTVF2F34	20	Semester 2

Option A Study (20 credits)

Students will select 20 credits from the following module(s).

Name	Code	Credits	Period
Animation Animation is one of the most popular and least scrutinised areas of popular media culture. This module seeks to introduce students to animation as a mode of production through examinations of different aesthetics and types of animation from stop motion through to cel and CGI-based examples. It then goes on to discuss some of the debates around animation in relation to case study texts. Example debates include: who animation is for (children?), the limits of the term 'animation' in relation to CGI, the industrial frameworks for animation production (art vs commerce) and character vs star debates around animation icons. A range of approaches and methods will therefore be adopted within the module, including political economics, cultural industries, star studies and animation studies itself. The module is taught by seminar and screening. more...	FTVF2F33	20	Semester 1
British Cinema and the Past Literary adaptations, historical epics, war films, spoofs, bio-pics and romantic comedies: British films feature a range of filmmaking styles that deal with and represent 'the past'. This module examines the prominent position that period films have occupied within British film culture of the last century. Their enduring popularity among both filmmakers and audiences raises a range of aesthetic, ideological and practical issues. What techniques and conventions do they use to depict the past? What visions of the British past do they offer? What pleasures do they provide for their audiences? How important are foreign audiences and investment? Do films about the past provide escapist entertainment, or do they enable filmmakers (and audiences) to address contemporary concerns? Investigating films such as 'Zulu', 'A Room with a View', 'Elizabeth', the 'Carry On' series and 'The Queen', the module examines the depiction of the past in British cinema from the 1930s to the present. The module is taught by seminar and screening. more...	FTVF2F18	20	Semester 2
British Cinema Since 1990 The period since 1990 has been one of rapid change in the British film industry and this module explores this changing landscape. It will explore key areas including institution (the role of screen agencies, the BFI and key film making institutions such as Aardman, Working Title and Warp films) and policy as well as looking at areas such as genres, stars and directors. We will consider the interplay between the British film industry and the wider global film industry and will draw on a range of both familiar and less well known texts in order to analyse some of the key developments in British cinema during this time and to consider how recent developments such as the closure of the Film Council might impact upon British cinema culture. more...	FTVF2F51	20	Semester 1
Film and Authorship This module will introduce students to the theory and analysis of authorship within film. In the process, it will introduce students to the key theoretical debates over film authorship before moving on to examine a range of case studies. The module is taught by seminar and is supported by a separate programme of screenings. more...	FTVF2F36	20	Semester 2
Film Genres Film Genres introduces students to the range of theories and methods used to account for the prevalence of genres within filmmaking. The module investigates historical changes in how film genres have been approached in order to consider how genres have been made use of by industry, critics and film audiences. Genre theories are explored through a range of case studies drawn from one or more of a range of popular American film genres that may include the Western, melodrama, romantic comedy, the road movie, the buddy movie, film noir, the gangster film, the war film and action/adventure film. In exploring concepts and case studies relating to film genres the module aims to demonstrate the impact of genres within contemporary culture. more...	FTVF2F71	20	Semester 1
Introduction to Video Production This module will enable students to acquire the essential skills to undertake video production and create coherent video programmes. Practical instruction and familiarisation is supported by workshop sessions focusing upon elements of the relationship between technique and the inscription of mise-en-scene within film. Whilst specific craft skills are recognised there is greater emphasis upon the overall requirements of the production process, including elements of production management, and an understanding of how these components integrate to maximise the communication potential of a production. Learning is structured around the production of an individual portfolio of practical tasks supported by associated research tasks investigating the application of technique to the interpretation and reception of audio-visual texts, and a project executed within small production groups. An individual evaluation of learning during the module is also required. more...	FTVF2P81	20	Semester 1
Introduction to Video Production This module will enable students to acquire the essential skills to undertake video production and create coherent video programmes. Practical instruction and familiarisation is supported by workshop sessions focusing upon elements of the relationship between technique and the inscription of mise-en-scene within film. Whilst specific craft skills are recognised there is greater emphasis upon the overall requirements of the production process, including elements of production management, and an understanding of how these components integrate to maximise the communication potential of a production. Learning is structured around the production of an individual portfolio of practical tasks supported by associated research tasks investigating the application of technique to the interpretation and reception of audio-visual texts, and a project executed within small production groups. An individual evaluation of learning during the module is also required. more...	FTVF2P82	20	Semester 2
Media Internship AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1W610301 and U1P300302. This module is intended to provide students with an opportunity to experience working within a media organisation. The organisation will provide a clear sense of their structure and activities and students will work to a precise job description. The internship will therefore offer students the opportunity to work as individuals within a team and develop skills and experience vital to future career in the media. more...	FTVF2F41	20	Semester 1
Media Internship AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1W610301 and U1P300302. This module is intended to provide students with an opportunity to experience working within a media organisation. The organisation will provide a clear sense of their structure and activities and students will work to a precise job description. The internship will therefore offer students the opportunity to work as individuals within a team and develop skills and experience vital to future career in the media. more...	FTVF2F42	20	Semester 2
Popular Music This module encourages students to explore the ways in which popular music has been understood by scholars in the field of media and cultural studies. The module will examine the debates over popular music industries, texts and audiences, and incorporate an exploration of a range of popular musical forms, including folk music, rock, pop, rap and/or hip-hop, and dance music cultures. It will also examine the relations of popular music to other media, such as television and the internet. more...	FTVF2F52	20	Semester 2
Reception and Audience Studies in Film and Television This module seeks to understand the ways in which audiences engage with film and television. It will introduce students to some of the key research on, and theoretical debates about, audiences and the processes of reception, from work on encoding and decoding, through studies of the social activities of television consumption, to research on marketing, critical reception and exhibition. It will also introduce some of the methodological issues involved in the actual practice of doing audience studies. In this way, the module will not only encourage students to learn about the study of film and television audiences, but also equip them with the tools necessary to undertake their own studies. The module is taught by seminar. more...	FTVF2F29	20	Semester 1
Script Analysis and Story Structure This module investigates the theory and practice of script analysis for film and television. Students will have an opportunity to learn professional approaches to reading and evaluating scripts and source material for production. The module will explore basic dramaturgy and learn a variety of paradigms to describe story structure and character development. Students will learn several approaches to evaluating material, and will have the opportunity to create industry standard story reports. Each week, students will read and analyze scripts and/or books, and then screen films based on the material. Seminars will introduce key concepts and explore the narrative elements in the scripts and final films. In addition, the unit will look at story development as a facet of media practice. The module will draw on a variety of texts. Original scripts will form the backbone of the module, but the reading will also include novels and other forms of source material. This will also include a brief survey of dramaturgy, from the `Poetics' to modern manuals for script analysis. Other readings will examine the area as media practice. Formative work will play an important role in the module. Students will produce written reports virtually every week, which they will peer-correct in small support groups. This provides an opportunity to work in a variety of formats or with different types of material. In addition, it provides much-needed practice, as it takes many repetitions to learn the proper style and produce effective, professional-style work. The instructor will monitor formative work submitted through the Portal/Blackboard. more...	FTVF2F64	20	Semester 2
Television Genre Work on television genre continues to draw on theories developed in relation to film, despite the fact that these theories have been heavily criticised. Not only can this ignore the differences between film and television genres, it can also work to privilege film over television, so that television is often seen as an inferior copy of genres developed elsewhere. The module will therefore explore the theory of genre in relation to television, the historical development of television genres, and the operation of genre in the production, mediation and consumption of television and its programmes. The module will also examine these debates in relation to concrete case studies. The module is taught by seminar and screening. more...	FTVF2F54	20	Semester 2
Television Studio Production AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1G450302, U1QW36301, U1TW76301, U1TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301, U1P300302. This module introduces students to television studio production, using the resources of the campus television studio. Once students have learned the basic skills of both live and recorded studio production (including directing, vision and sound mixing, camera-work, lighting, floor management and editing), they work towards the production of a short television programme. They are also required to write a report analysing and evaluating the production process and the finished product. more...	FTVF2P32	20	Semester 2
Television Studio Production AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1G450302, U1QW36301, U1TW76301, U1TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301, U1P300302. This module introduces students to television studio production, using the resources of the campus television studio. Once students have learned the basic skills of both live and recorded studio production (including directing, vision and sound mixing, camera-work, lighting, floor management and editing), they work towards the production of a short television programme. They are also required to write a report analysing and evaluating the production process and the finished product. more...	FTVF2P33	20	Semester 1
The Business of Film and Television The module provides an intensive introduction to the business of film and television; including the development, financing, production, distribution and exploitation of films and television programmes. It is based around a detailed understanding of the film and television value chain, showing how different businesses and creative people work together to create and exploit programmes. It will also cover the process by which scripts or TV programme ideas are written and developed. Emphasis will be placed on UK, European and American Independent film models, as well as the US studio model. It includes a wide range of recent case studies and real-life examples, with companies from Pixar to Working Title, and film-makers from Ken Loach to Terry Gilliam. Issues raised will include the impact of new technologies; changing business models; the conflict between commerce and art; entrepreneurship and managing creative people; and the complex and difficult relationships between writers, directors, producers, executives, financiers, and distributors. It is a practical forward-looking course about current and future business practise, which will be a valuable foundation for anyone interested in working in the media, film or television sectors. It will also be valuable to anyone studying film and television programmes and culture, so that they can fully understand the financial and business context in which programmes are created. By the end of the module you will know how films and TV programmes get dreamt up, how they get developed, and how they get financed and distributed. You will learn how the industry actually works. more...	FTVF2F35	20	Semester 1
The Practice of Screenwriting: Issues in Adaptation This module is a practical screenwriting class. Students will explore basic issues in screenwriting and will focus on the problems of creating new screenplays adapted from novels, short stories, articles and other sources. Classroom sessions will compare film adaptations to the original material, introduce concepts of screenwriting and screenplay form, and apply key tools of script analysis. The final project will offer the opportunity to write a short screenplay or the first act of a feature-length script. The module offers essential skills for anyone contemplating a screenwriting career. The module is taught by seminar and screening. more...	FTVF2P20	20	Semester 2
The Practice of Screenwriting: Issues in Adaptation This module is a practical screenwriting class. Students will explore basic issues in screenwriting and will focus on the problems of creating new screenplays adapted from novels, short stories, articles and other sources. Classroom sessions will compare film adaptations to the original material, introduce concepts of screenwriting and screenplay form, and apply key tools of script analysis. The final project will offer the opportunity to write a short screenplay or the first act of a feature-length script. The module offers essential skills for anyone contemplating a screenwriting career. The module is taught by seminar and screening more...	FTVF2P23	20	Semester 1

Option B Study (20 credits)

Students will select 20 credits from the following module(s).

You may pick any of the modules that begin with:

HISH2

Reformation to Revolution This module examines three centuries of European history connecting two unprecedented revolutionary epochs: the Reformation of the sixteenth century and the American and French revolutions at the end of the early modern era. We will look at key themes and movements in these centuries, including the politics of the Reformation; the Mediterranean work of the Ottomans and Habsburg Spain; the Dutch Golden Age; the great political and religious struggles of the seventeenth century, including wars in the British Isles, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Baltic; the Russia of the Romanov czars and Peter the Great; the growth of centralised states and absolutism in France, Prussia and Austria; the Enlightenment; the rise of the Atlantic economies; and the challenge to the Old Regime from revolutionary politics. more...	HISH2H01	20	Semester 1
From Agincourt to Bosworth: England in the Wars of the Roses This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B18 FROM AGINCOURT TO BOSWORTH: ENGLAND IN THE WARS OF THE ROSES and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B18C	20	Semester 2
War and Peace Since 1945 This module analyses the use and non-use of force in inter-state relations. It first asks why wars occur between states and examines the political, legal and ethical constraints on military action. We then consider peaceful alternatives and civil society. The themes include: the causes of wars; the history of warfare; the Cold War; nuclear strategy and arms control; the laws of war; peace theories; UN peacekeeping; disarmament, and non-violent resistance more...	HISH2G02	20	Semester 2
War and Peace Since 1945 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2G02C WAR AND PEACE SINCE 1945 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2G02C	20	Semester 2
The British Empire, 1857-1956 This module surveys the history of the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the Suez Crisis, seeking to explain the Empire's growth and the early stages of its contraction. It examines the nature and impact of British colonial rule, at the political, economic and social/cultural levels, addressing the development of the 'settler' colonies/Dominions, the special significance of India and the implications of the 'New Imperialism'. Problems to be considered include theories of 'development' and 'collaboration', the growth of resistance and nationalism, and Britain's responses to these, and the impacts of the two World Wars and the Cold War on Britain's Imperial system. more...	HISH2B74	20	Semester 2
The British Empire, 1857-1956 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B74 THE BRITISH EMPIRE and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B74C	20	Semester 2
Norman and Plantagenet England, 1066-1307 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B12 NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND, 1066-1307 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B12C	20	Semester 2
Early Medieval Europe This module focuses on the geographical area covered by the Carolingian Empire - that is, the modern territorial units of France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries. It begins in the late sixth century with the Merovingian dynasty and ends with the reform of the Papacy and the first crusade at the end of the 11th century. more...	HISH2B13	20	Semester 1
Modern Italy, 1860-1945 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2E08 MODERN ITALY, 1860-1945 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2E08C	20	Semester 2
Modern Italy, 1860-1945 This module studies the social, political and economic history of Italy from its unification in 1860 until the end of the Second World War. It will begin by looking at the process of unification, the difficulties encountered in governing the new nation-state and the problems of uneven social and economic modernisation. The module then focuses on the First World War and the rise of Fascism after 1918, before assessing the nature of Mussolini's regime and the reasons for its downfall. more...	HISH2E08	20	Semester 2
Medicine and Society in Modern Britain This module considers the practice of medicine in Britain from the eighteenth century to the establishment of the NHS. Themes include the impact of science and professions, the organisation and control aspects of medical and hospital services and healthcare as seen by sufferers and patients. These are seen in the context of broader topics in modern British social history. more...	HISH2B96	20	Semester 2
Medicine and Gender This module offers a broad historical treatment of gender issues in medicine, examining women as providers and recipients of healthcare from Ancient Greece to the NHS. Topics for study include the female body, obstetrics and gynaecology, the female healer and the medical profession, women, witchcraft and popular healing, scientific medicine and professionalisation, nurses, nursing and reform, and women's health. more...	HISH2B97	20	Semester 1
Medicine and Society in Modern Britain (Cw) This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B96 MEDICINE AND SOCIETY IN MODERN BRITAIN and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B96C	20	Semester 2
Landscape I: Structures of Landscape This module will examine the development of the English landscape from early prehistoric times to the late Saxon period. We will examine the field archaeology of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, discuss in some detail the landscapes of Roman Britain, and assess the nature of the Roman/Saxon transition. We will then investigate the development of territorial organisation, field systems and settlement patterns during the Saxon and Medieval periods. The module provides an introduction to archaeological theory and methods, as well as giving a broad overview of the development of society, economy and environment in the period up to c.1300. more...	HISH2A51	20	Semester 1
Medicine and Gender (Cw) This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B97 MEDICINE AND GENDER and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B97C	20	Semester 1
Victorian Britain This module will examine the leading themes in British history during Victoria's reign (1837-1901). It will include political, social, economic, religious, urban, gender and intellectual topics. more...	HISH2B73	20	Semester 1
Landscape I: Structures of Landscape This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2A51 LANDSCAPE I and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2A51C	20	Semester 1
Early Medieval Europe (Cw) This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B13 EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B13C	20	Semester 1
Napoleon to Stalin: the Struggle for Mastery in Europe This module deals with the rivalries of the Great Powers from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the onset of the Cold War. We shall be examining topics such as the Vienna system; the Crimean War; Italian and German unification, the origins of the First and Second World Wars and the start of the Cold War. more...	HISH2D02	20	Semester 2
Imperial Russian and Soviet History 1861, - 1941 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2D89 IMPERIAL RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2D89C	20	Semester 1
Later Medieval Europe This module examines the political, cultural and social history of later medieval Europe (circa 1100-1500) with a particular focus on France and Italy. The topics addressed include the formation of cities, the position of the papacy, lay piety, and the role of women. more...	HISH2A94	20	Semester 2
The Rise and Fall of British Power This module examines Britain's expansion and decline as a great power, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1950s. It considers the foundations of British power, the emergence of rivals, Britain's relationship with the European powers and the USA, and the impact of two World Wars and Cold War. It investigates the reasons for Britain's changing fortunes, as it moved from guarding the balance of power to losing its empire. more...	HISH2B57	20	Semester 1
The Rise and Fall of British Power This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B57 THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH POWER and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B57C	20	Semester 1
Reformation to Revolution This module is a coursework only version of HISH2H01 REFORMATION TO REVOLUTION and is available only to NON-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2H01C	20	Semester 1
Landscape II : Built and Semi-Natural Environments This module will examine the development of the English countryside from late Saxon times into the eighteenth century. Topics covered will include woods and wood-pastures, enclosure, walls and hedges, the archaeology of churches and vernacular houses. There will be a substantial practical component to the module, involving the analysis of buildings, hedges and woods and other semi-natural environments. more...	HISH2A52	20	Semester 2
From Agincourt to Bosworth: England in the Wars of the Roses Through a close examination of the lives and reigns of four very different monarchs this unit investigates the workings of kingship and high politics in one of the most turbulent periods of English History (1415-1485). New interpretations of the Wars of the Roses, as well as original source material, will be studied. more...	HISH2B18	20	Semester 2
Norman and Plantagenet England, 1066-1307 This module follows the history of England from the Norman Conquest of 1066 down to the death of Edward 1 in 1307. The aim of this module is to look at the political, ecclesiastical, social and intellectual history of England in this period and to place English history in the wider context of European history in the Middle Ages. more...	HISH2B12	20	Semester 2
Anglo-Saxon England, C. 500-1066 This module surveys the history of the English from their arrival of the English in Britain in the fifth century until the end of the eleventh century and the conquest by the Normans. We shall cover topics such as the conversion of the English in the seventh century; the domination of England by Mercia in the eighth century; the Viking invasions and the reign of Alfred the Great; the emergence of Wessex as the dominant force in England in the tenth century; the conquest of England by the Danes in the eleventh century; and the Norman Conquest of England. more...	HISH2A93	20	Semester 1
The Duchess of Devonshire to Nancy Astor: Women, Power and Politics This module explores female involvement in politics, from the Duchess of Devonshire's infamous activities in the 1784 Westminster election until 1919, when Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. It will examine topics including the early feminists, aristocratic female politicians, radical politics and the suffragettes. It will investigate the changes and continuities with female engagement with the political process from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth century. more...	HISH2H12	20	Semester 2
Medicine and Society Before the 17th Century This module examines the theory and practice of medicine at all levels of English society during the medieval and early modern periods, and assesses the impact of medical ideas upon religious, literary and political thought. Topics include: the emergence of a healing profession and its attempts to secure a monopoly of practice; the role of women as both patients and practitioners; theories about the spread of disease and necessary measures for public health; medicine and the Church;and attitudes to mortality. Edited versions of original documents are used. more...	HISH2B95	20	Semester 1
Queens, Courtesans and Commoners: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cw) This module is a coursework only version of HISH2F25 WOMEN AND GENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE and is available only to NON-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2F25C	20	Semester 1
Victorian Britain This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B73 VICTORIAN BRITAIN and is only available to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B73C	20	Semester 1
Modern Germany, 1914-1990 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2D53 MODERN GERMANY, 1866-1945 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2D53C	20	Semester 1
Modern Germany, 1914-1990 The history of few countries is as dramatic as that of modern Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. This module will focus on themes such as: the making and re-making of the German nation; the political consequences of Germany's transformation into an industrial superpower; Germany's role in the origins of the war in 1914; the problems confronting Weimar democracy; the relationship of the German people to Hitler's regime; the rise and decline of the Nazi empire in Europe; and the impact of Nazism on the German nation since 1945. more...	HISH2D53	20	Semester 1
Tudor and Stuart England This module seeks to identify patterns of continuity and change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a view to defining the early modern period in practice. Through an examination of both political and constitutional history from the top down, and social and cultural history from the bottom up, it seeks to understand the period dynamically, in terms of new and often troubled relationships which were formed between governors and governed. Topics include: Tudor monarchy, the Protestant Reformation, the social order, popular religion and literacy, riot and rebellion, the Stuart state, the civil wars, crime and the law, women and gender. more...	HISH2B35	20	Semester 1
Queens, Courtesans and Commoners: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe This module examines the issue of gender in European history, between 1500 and 1750. Using a variety of written and visual sources, and including a comparative element, it focuses on the following themes: definitions of femininity and masculinity; life-cycles; family, kinship, and marriage; social exclusion, charity and the welfare state; law, crime, and order; witchcraft and magic; honour, sex, and sexual identities; work; learning and the arts; material culture; the impact of European expansions. more...	HISH2F25	20	Semester 1
Landscape II (Cw) This module is a coursework only version of HISH2A52 LANDSCAPE II and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2A52C	20	Semester 2
The Papacy, Christianity and the State, 1050-1300 This unit is a coursework-only version of HISH2A10 THE PAPACY, CHRISTIANITY AND THE STATE, 1050-1300 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2A10C	20	Semester 2
Conspiracy and Crisis in Early Modern England Assassination. Foreign invasion. Revolt and rebellion. Political and religious plots loomed large and posed a constant threat in Early Modern England. Conspiracy was not simply an imagined threat nor did it exist in theory; it was a social and political reality that elicited fear, shaped policies and gave rise to self-fulfilling prophecies. Did the greatest threat of subversion come from popular uprisings, foreign invasion or from the heart of the British government? From Mary, Queen of Scots and the Gunpowder Plot to the hidden agenda of Charles I, this module will survey a series of popular, elite and royalist conspiracies. Moving behind official narratives, it will draw on a host of resources to investigate alternative explanations for crisis over power, authority and legitimacy during this period. Each conspiracy will provide and point of entry into broader changes in early modern society as the crown and commons reimagined and realigned political, religious and social boundaries. more...	HISH2H08	20	Semester 2
The Power of the Past How do communities collectively remember the past? Through public memorials? Through historical fiction? Through published memoirs? Through ritual? How have various governments used the past to validate their policies? The module looks at the relationship between history and memory ' both academic and non-academic. It is assessed on the basis of a 2,000 word essay and a4,000 word project, which you design with help and advice from the module organiser. The lectures cover a wide range of topics ' but because this is a coursework based module, you are not expected to become an expert on every subject! The idea of lectures is to raise ideas and concepts, as well as to deliver historical information about the ways in which the past has been used, abused, hidden and explored by a variety of differing societies, cultures and states. The lectures are based around case-studies, each of which explores a wider theme (e.g., state repression of memory, gender and memory; memory and ward; etc). These include; history and the state in modern Europe; working class memory, war and memory in the 20th Century, memory, forgetting and the Spanish civil war; post-war Britain and wartime memories; racism, national identity and memory in modern Australia; the internet and history, popular memory in early modern Europe; the uses of the past in Nazi Germany; peasant memory in Latin America. Particular use is made of Web resources and in the first few weeks we will be looking at contemporary uses of the past in the print and electronic media. After that, the focus will be on thinking through your own project through group work and individual advice. more...	HISH2E02	20	Semester 2
Medicine & Society Before the 17th Century This module is a coursework only version of HISH2B95: MEDICINE AND SOCIETY BEFORE THE 17TH CENTURY and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2B95C	20	Semester 1
Latin for Historians This module provides an introduction to the linguistic skills in medieval Latin which enable students to read administrative documents such as charters, accounts, court rolls, etc. It is particularly suited for those who intend proceeding to postgraduate study in aspects of the past, such as medieval history, which require a reading knowledge of Latin. more...	HISH2A62	20	Semester 2
The English Civil Wars This module looks at the causes, course and significance at what, in terms of relative population loss was probably the single most devastating conflict in English history; the civil wars of 1642-6, 1648 and 1651. In those years, families, villages and towns were divided by political allegiances and military mobilisation. Hundreds of thousands died, not just from warfare, but also from the spread of infectious disease, siege and the disruption of food supplies. In the rest of the British Isles, suffering was even more profound. The execution of the King in 1649, intended to bring an end to the wars, divided the country ever more deeply. By the late 1640s, radical social groups had emerged who questioned the very basis of authority in Early Modern Society, and made arguments for democracy and for the redistribution of land and power. Karl Marx thought that English revolution marked the beginnings of capitalism. Was he right? Focussing on ordinary men and women as well as upon important generals, politicians and monarchs, this module examines the following issues: the causes of the civil war; the reign of Charles I; the start of the warfare in Ireland and Scotland; the outbreak of the English Civil war; the course of the war; popular allegiances ' why did ordinary people fight?; the Levellers, Diggers and Ranters; the crisis of 1647-9; the trial and execution of Charles I; gender, women and revolution; the experience of warfare; print and popular political gossip; the failure of the English Republic and the Restoration of Charles II. Particular use will be made of the primary source extracts and web resources. more...	HISH2H10	20	Semester 2
The Papacy, Christianity and the State, 1050-1300 In these centuries the pope became the most influential figure in Europe. He could depose emperors, mobilise vast armies to fight on crusade, and intervene in disputes in far-away realms. This module explores the origins of papal power and its impact on emerging nations in the west. more...	HISH2A10	20	Semester 2
Heritage and Public History Public history is history in the public sphere, whether in museums and galleries, heritage sites and historic houses, radio and television broadcasting, film, popular history books, or public policy within government. In the UK, it is a new and burgeoning area of academic interest and debate. The central challenge and task of public history is making history relevant and accessible to its audience of people outside academia, whilst adhering to an academically credible historical method. This module explores the theory and practice of public history in heritage, broadcasting and publication. The first half of the module considers the principles of visitor interpretation, museology and curatorship, asking questions such as, how is the past used? What is authenticity? What decisions are made in the presentation and interpretation of museums and historic houses? Must public ' or popular ' history mean `dumbing down', or can we satisfy the public's curiosity about the past in a way that also satisfies us as historians? The second half of the module seriously engages with the challenge of how to represent history in television documentaries, radio broadcasts, mainstream cinema, in the making of public policy, and as popular history or historical fiction. Outside speakers ' chosen from curators, interpreters, producers, and popular historians and broadcasters ' will lecture as part of this course. The course will also involve a field trip to Hampton Court Palace. more...	HISH2H05	20	Semester 1
Imperial Russian and Soviet History, 1861-1945 This module examines some of the main themes in Russian history between the Emancipation of the Serfs and the outbreak of the Second World War. We will look at the nature of industrialisation and the peasant economy, the autocracy and its fall in 1917, the revolutionary movement and the nationalities question. We will then examine how the Revolution of 1917 changed the state and the ways in which the Communists attempted to change society before 1929. We conclude by examining the country during the era of the five year plans and the impact of the Stalinist system on the Soviet Union before the outbreak of world war. more...	HISH2D89	20	Semester 1
Tudor and Stuart England This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B35 TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND and is available only to non-HIS and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B35C	20	Semester 1
Semester Study Aboard (Spring Semster) X04 This module offers HIS students on the V100 programme the opportunity to spend the Spring semester of their second year studying abroad, either in a European university, as part of the ERASMUS scheme, or in a selected North American or Australian university approved by the School's Director of Teaching. more...	HISH2X04	60	Semester 2
Semester Study Aboard (Autumn Semster) X05 This module offers HIS students on the V100 programme the opportunity to spend the Autumn semester of their second year studying abroad, either in a European university, as part of the ERASMUS scheme, or in a selected North American or Australian university approved by the School's Director of Teaching. more...	HISH2X05	60	Semester 1
Twentieth-Century Britain, 1914 to the Present (Cw) This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2G01 TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2G01C	20	Semester 1
"Anglo-Saxon England, C. 500-1066 (Cw)" This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2A93C ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, c. 500-1066 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2A93C	20	Semester 1
Twentieth-Century Britain, 1914 to the Present This module offers an in-depth history of Britain from the Great War to the present day, both through the study of political life and also by assessing the impact of economic, social and cultural change. There are opportunities to re-evaluate issues such as the impact of war on society, `landmark' General Elections such as those of 1945 and 1979, the rise of consumer society, post-colonialism, the sexual revolution, the politics of immigration, unrest in Northern Ireland, as well as Britain's changing role in the world. more...	HISH2G01	20	Semester 1

LDCC2

Creative Writing: Introduction (Spr) An introductory module open only to second year students. It is not available to students on the Creative Writing Minor and is offered as an alternative to other Level 2 Creative Writing modules. The teaching uses structured exercises based on objects, handouts, discussion and visualisation to stimulate the production of prose fiction and poetry. In the first half of the seminar students will write about 'what they know', drawing on notebooks, memories and family stories. In the second half the focus will shift to the work of established authors, using sample texts as a stimulus to students' own writing. more...	LDCC2W08	20	Semester 2
Creative Writing: Poetry (Aut) This module enables students to test the range of their abilities as writers of poetry. The first half of the course will be exploratory and practical, using structured exercises and handouts to consider such issues as voice, persona, sound, imagery, metaphor, structure and form. In the second half the emphasis will shift to constructive group discussion of students' own work. Aims: The aim of this module is to develop students' expressive and technical skills in writing poetry and to improve students' abilities as editors and critics of their own and other people's work. more...	LDCC2W07	20	Semester 1
Creative Writing : Introduction (Aut) An introductory module open only to second year students. It is not available to students on the Creative Writing Minor and is offered as an alternative to other Level 2 Creative Writing modules. The teaching uses structured exercises based on objects, handouts, discussion and visualisation to stimulate the production of prose fiction and poetry. In the first half of the seminar students will write about 'what they know', drawing on notebooks, memories and family stories. In the second half the focus will shift to the work of established authors, using sample texts as a stimulus to students' own writing. more...	LDCC2W11	20	Semester 1
Creative Writing: Prose Fiction (Aut) This module enables students to test their abilities and potential as writers of prose fiction. It is not intended for beginners, or those with no experience of a formal creative writing environment. The first half of the course will be exploratory and practical, using structured exercises and handouts to consider such issues as character, genre voice, dialogue and point of view. In the second half the emphasis will shift to constructive group discussion of students' own work. Aim: The aim of this module is to develop students' expressive and technical skills in writing prose fiction and to improve students' abilities as editors and critics of their own and other people's work. THIS MODULE IS EXCLUSIVE TO CREATIVE WRITING MINORS, VISITING STUDENTS FROM EQUIVALENT COURSES AND LIT STUDENTS WITH SOME PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF CREATIVE WRITING. ALL OTHER STUDENTS SHOULD ENROL ON LDCC2W08/11 CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION. more...	LDCC2W01	20	Semester 1
Creative Writing: Poetry (Spr) This module enables students to test the range of their abilities as writers of poetry. The first half of the seminar will be exploratory and practical, using structured exercises and handouts to consider such issues as voice, persona, sound, imagery, metaphor, structure and form. In the second half the emphasis will shift to constructive group discussion of students' own work. Aims: The aim of this module is to develop students' expressive and technical skills in writing poetry and to improve students' abilities as editors and critics of their own and other people's work. more...	LDCC2W20	20	Semester 2
Creative Writing: Scriptwriting (Aut) WW84 STUDENTS TAKE THIS MODULE AND THE SPRING MODULE (LDCC2W24) AS COMPULSORY MODULES. STUDENTS ON OTHER PROGRAMMES MAY TAKE EITHER THE AUTUMN MODULE OR THE SPRING MODULE, BUT NOT BOTH. This module develops students' abilities to invent and understand dramatic texts. Methods include structured exercises in writing drama and the exploration and analysis of a range of plays. Students may specialise in writing for stage/radio or film/television. more...	LDCC2W05	20	Semester 1
The Writing of Journalism (Aut) The Writing of Journalism is concerned with journalism as a practice, and a genre. By examining different types of writing involved in a range of journalism, including short news stories, running stories, online journalism, reviews, and feature writing (including interviewing), we will identify and develop the skills needed to produce these. In addition to writing journalism themselves, students will examine journalistic writing and critical work about issues in the writing of journalism to probe and challenge their own ideas and assumptions about the practice and production of journalism. Rather than see the practice of journalism and the critical study of journalism as distinct activities, this course aims to engage students as critical readers and writers whose work is informed by both contexts. In so doing, students will gain a greater understanding of the demands and conventions of journalistic writing, develop and sharpen their own work, and gain the discursive flexibility to navigate the writing of journalism today. The module demands a high level of participation, as it is based on discussion, peer-workshops, and practical experience of reading and writing news and feature articles. Regular writing and participation in workshops count towards assessment. Due to the nature of this module, students who work in English as a second or foreign language should meet LDC's EFL score of 6.5. All prospective students are advised that the module involves weekly work to develop effective - and professional - journalism practices. more...	LDCC2W27	20	Semester 1
Creative Writing: Scriptwriting (Spr) WW84 STUDENTS TAKE THIS MODULE AND THE AUTUMN MODULE (LDCC2W05) AS COMPULSORY MODULES. STUDENTS ON OTHER PROGRAMMES MAY TAKE EITHER THE AUTUMN MODULE OR THE SPRING MODULE, BUT NOT BOTH. This module develops students' abilities to invent and understand dramatic texts. Methods include structured exercises in writing drama and the exploration and analysis of a range of plays. Students may specialise in writing for stage/radio or film/TV. more...	LDCC2W24	20	Semester 2
The Writing of Journalism (Spr) The Writing of Journalism is concerned with journalism as a practice, and a genre. By examining different types of writing involved in a range of journalism, including short news stories, running stories, online journalism, reviews, and feature writing (including interviewing), we will identify and develop the skills needed to produce these. In addition to writing journalism themselves, students will examine journalistic writing and critical work about issues in the writing of journalism to probe and challenge their own ideas and assumptions about the practice and production of journalism. Rather than see the practice of journalism and the critical study of journalism as distinct activities, this course aims to engage students as critical readers and writers whose work is informed by both contexts. In so doing, students will gain a greater understanding of the demands and conventions of journalistic writing, develop and sharpen their own work, and gain the discursive flexibility to navigate the writing of journalism today. The module demands a high level of participation, as it is based on discussion, peer-workshops, and practical experience of reading and writing news and feature articles. Regular writing and participation in workshops count towards assessment. Due to the nature of this module, students who work in English as a second or foreign language should meet LDC's EFL score of 6.5. All prospective students are advised that the module involves weekly work to develop effective - and professional - journalism practices. more...	LDCC2W28	20	Semester 2
Creative Writing: Prose Fiction (Spr) This module enables students to test their abilities and potential as writers of prose fiction. The first half of the seminar will be exploratory and practical, using structured exercises and handouts to consider such issues as character, genre, voice, dialogue and point of view. In the second half the emphasis will shift to constructive group discussion of students' own work. The aim of this module is to develop students' expressive and technical skills in writing prose fiction and to improve students' abilities as editors and critics of their own and other people's work. THIS MODULE IS EXCLUSIVE TO CREATIVE WRITING MINORS, VISITING STUDENTS FROM EQUIVALENT COURSES AND LIT STUDENTS WITH SOME PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF CREATIVE WRITING. ALL OTHER STUDENTS SHOULD ENROL ON LDCC2W08/11 CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION. more...	LDCC2W14	20	Semester 2

LDCE2

Three Women Writers The writings of Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf intersect with discourses of 'new women' and gender as well as feminism, and social and cultural history. This second level seminar develops historicist and generic understanding as well as exploring women's identity through these authors' writings, which move between realism and modernism. Special attention to just one writer is possible in the final essay. Particular attention will be given to some of Virginia Woolf's lesser known writing. more...	LDCE2Z38	20	Semester 2
Goodbye to Berlin? Literature & Visual Culture in Weimar Germany This module aims to explore some of the exciting developments in verbal and visual culture of the Weimar Republic between the First and Second World Wars, e.g. experimental theatre, Weimar cinema, cabaret, visual arts, the Bauhaus, etc. Texts considered will include writings by Brecht et al. Thomas and Heinrich Mann, and less familiar authors as well as key films by e.g. Pabst (Threepenny Opera), Lang (Metropolis), von Sternberg (Blue Angel) and others. A particular focus is likely to be representations of gender on page, stage and screen. Active seminar participation is expected. NB: A knowledge of German, while useful, is not a prerequisite; translations are available. more...	LDCE2Z40	20	Semester 2
World Literature: Reading Globally The term 'world literature', coined by Goethe as a means for promoting universal understanding, and then taken up by Marx and Engels as a symbol of modernity, has today become not only a booming area of academic research, but also a publishing phenomenon. This module introduces literature from around the globe, specifically texts that have had and continue to have an impact on an international readership and that frequently demand a self-consciously different mode of reading, one that recognises otherness while simultaneously finding points of commonality. Primary texts will include the ancient Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, the classical Japanese Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, The 1001 Nights, the King James Version of the Bible, as well as more contemporary works by authors such as Bei Dao, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Tayeb Salih and Yoko Tawada. To contextualise our diverse readings, a range of critical and theoretical explorations of what it means to read (or to write) beyond the borders of a national literature will also be studied. The vital role of translation, understood in both the linguistic and cultural sense, in creating the world literature text will further ground much of the discussion. more...	LDCE2X29	20	Semester 1
17th-Century Writing: Renaissance, Revolution, Restoration This module explores 17th-Century writing in diverse forms, familiar and unfamiliar: the masque, poetry, prose fiction, political prose and the antecedents of what we now call 'journalism'. We will consider the place of these works in society and in their intellectual and cultural contexts, and examine the traffic between literary writing and broader (popular?) print culture. more...	LDCE2Y13	20	Semester 1
Publishing (Aut) The module will be theoretical as well as practical including discussions around the design and editing of a text and what constitutes an editorial policy. Students will be taught how to set up, run and market their own publications (a magazine/book/fanzine) as well as to justify their editorial, marketing and business strategies. This course will be assessed by a portfolio and a piece of coursework. Training on Desktop publishing packages PageMaker and Photoshop will be provided as part of the course. more...	LDCE2X05	20	Semester 1
Contemporary Writing This module aims to take an open snapshot of different modes of writing in the recent British scene, not a post-war history of the novel. Together with the question of exactly what it means to be contemporary, we shall concentrate on a small number of thematic and/or formal features, looking in particular at more adventurous examples of recent literature. more...	LDCE2Z34	20	Semester 2
Medieval Writing This module is designed to provide an introduction to the study of medieval English language and literature. In a series of lectures and seminars students will work through a small but representative selection of medieval texts, including lyrics, romance, and poetry, in order to develop a working knowledge of the language - Middle English - and an appreciation of different forms and genres found in medieval writing. Medieval texts and contexts will be used as a means of familiarising students with medieval language, and form the basis for further modules in medieval writing that may be taken within the School. more...	LDCE2Y15	20	Semester 1
Shakespeare The aim of this lecture-seminar module is to help you become a better reader of Shakespearean drama. He was writing between about 1590 and about 1610; obviously his plays speak to us over a great cultural distance, and we can find fresh ways of reading them by exploring the theatrical, generic and historical frameworks in which they were written and staged. The lectures, then, will introduce a range of contexts, and the seminars will seek to turn them to account in the reading of the dramatic texts themselves. more...	LDCE2Y04	20	Semester 2
Romanticism 1780-1840 Romantic Literature is often thought of as poetry, primarily work by Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Bryon. But the signs and forms of Romantic sensibility can also be found in a much broader constituency of writing practice: the novel, letter writing, the essay, political and aesthetic theory, and writing of all kinds taken as social commentary. This module is taught through a combination of lectures and seminars. more...	LDCE2X26	20	Semester 2
From Pushkin to Chekhov: Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction This module offers students the opportunity to study some of the great works of nineteenth-century Russian fiction by authors such as Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Russian writers were convinced that their country's literature had been too dependent on European models and they set out consciously to create a distinctly 'Russian' tradition. What did this involve and why subsequently were the works of the authors like Dostoevsky and Chekhov received so rapturously when they became available in English translations at the beginning of the twentieth century? We will also examine this writing in its social, historical and political context, which raises questions regarding the significance of gender, censorship and empire. more...	LDCE2Z33	20	Semester 1
Literature Studies Semester Abroad: Australia (Spring) A semester spent at an Australian university taking an approved course of study. Restricted to students on Q300U1, QT37U1, Q3W8U1, QV31U1, W400U1, WQ43U1. WW84U1. more...	LDCE2A04	60	Semester 2
Austen and the Brontes: Reading the Romance This module will consider three texts by Austen and the Brontes. A wide variety of literary and historical contexts will be discussed: feminisms, colonialism, impact of war, the social status of the woman writer, representations of governesses, madness and mad women, rakes, foreigners and strangers, minds and bodies, heroes and heroines. We investigate the ways that the lives of the authors of these novels have been told and read as romances. Opportunities will be available to work on film versions. Work on any text by these authors is welcomed in class, coursework and in the examination. more...	LDCE2X28	20	Semester 2
Publishing (Spr) The module will be theoretical as well as practical including discussions around the design and editing of a text and what constitutes an editorial policy. Students will be taught how to set up, run and market their own publications (a magazine/book/fanzine) as well as to justify their editorial, marketing and business strategies. This course will be assessed by a portfolio and a piece of coursework. Training on Desktop publishing packages PageMaker and Photoshop will be provided as part of the course. more...	LDCE2X06	20	Semester 2
Critical Theory and Practice Through a combination of lectures and seminars, this module will explore changing responses to the central questions of poetics, from Plato and Aristotle in the classical period to contemporary theory. What kinds of truth, if any, do poetry and fictional writing tell? What is the nature of the imagination or the role of invention? How does fictional writing relate to philosophy, religion, rhetoric or science? This module will approach these questions through a combination of historical, theoretical and practical approaches. This module enables students to identify, assess and employ a range of critical methods in their study of literature. more...	LDCE2X15	20	Semester 1
Modernism The purpose of this module is to study the literature of the early decades of the twentieth century - very roughly 1900-1930 - in particular the work of those authors who attempted to break with received norms of literary style and content. The module is organised as a series of thematic explorations - poetic experiment, memory and desire, myth and innovation, and so on - and thus does not follow a chronological structure. The sequence of guiding lectures focuses its deliberations on a set of specific texts, with their contexts, and these are taken up for discussion in the accompanying seminars. 'Modernism' is this constructed gradually over the semester as a mosaic of closely related issues, each one reflecting on the others. As well as providing an overview of defining textual features, in prose and poetry, the module is concerned also with the interrelation of text and context, offering a range of ways of conceiving of modernist literature as both of, and self-consciously ahead of, its historical moment. more...	LDCE2Z15	20	Semester 1
Erasmus Exchange: Autumn Semester LDC students going abroad under the ERASMUS exchange scheme for the Autumn semester must enrol for this module. Students going abroad under the ERASMUS exchange scheme to Dublin will need in addition to enrol for module LDCE2A02. Further details of the ERASMUS scheme are available from the Study Abroad Office. more...	LDCE2A01	60	Semester 1
Erasmus Exchange: Spring Semester LDC students going abroad under the ERASMUS exchange scheme for the Spring semester must enrol for this module. Students going abroad under the ERASMUS exchange scheme to Dublin will need in addition to enrol for module LDCE2A01. Further details on the ERASMUS scheme are available from the Study Abroad Office. more...	LDCE2A02	60	Semester 2
Eighteenth-Century Writing This module reads major British fiction and some poetry of the eighteenth century in terms of its relation to the development of society which is recognisably modern. We will examine such writers as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne, and exploring the `rise of the novel', the coming dominance of prose representation in journalism and fiction, the rise of the middle class, the move to an urban cash-nexus society governed by reason and contractual economic exchange, and the construction of new kinds of subjectivities for men and women according to the needs of middle-class patriarchy. In many ways, this module studies the development of the `modern mind'. more...	LDCE2Y11	20	Semester 1
European Literature: Encounters With 'Otherness' This module explores critical and aesthetic issues raised by general and comparative literature, issues of 'influence', reception, intertextuality, translation, formal and generic comparabilities, national identity and cultural borrowing. Theoretical questions will be examined through specific examples and case studies, ranging across different periods and geographies; however the focus is likely to be on the twentieth-century. Works studies may include texts by e.g. Kafka, Camus, Sartre, Sebald, Calvino, Celan. more...	LDCE2X24	20	Semester 2
Theatres of Revolt: Nineteenth-Century European Drama Beginning with Ibsen and Strindberg, this module examines the development of modern forms of drama during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, addressing modern concerns - self and society, gender, sexuality, social and class conflicts, creation and destruction, the unconscious - and deploying experimental types of theatre by Chekhov, Maeterlinck, Wilde, Hauptmann, Buchner and Wedekind, as well as the two seminal Scandinavians. We will be looking at versions of Naturalism, Symbolism and Expressionism as modernist modes in drama and suggesting ways in which these shape and anticipate later developments. There will be opportunities to view some of the plays on film. Assessment is by means of seminar participation, one piece of textual analysis and one longer essay. Drama students may include a performance element as part of the assessment. more...	LDCE2X07	20	Semester 1
Literature and Visual Culture Ii: At the Fin De Siecle This interdisciplinary module investigates the interweaving of literature, painting and photography in Europe in the latter part of the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on France. It looks at the characteristic thematic preoccupations, styles and perceptual psychologies which drive Naturalism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Aestheticism and Decadence as modernist modes. We will be examining developments in the handling of narrative and poetry as well as experiments in theatre against the background of photography's emulation of painting, and painting's struggle to free itself from the academic. Writers to be studied include Baudelaire, Zola, Moore, Maupassant, Wilde, Yeats, Maeterlinck and Mirbeau alongside a selection of poets, painters and photographers of the period. Assessment is by means of a written image analysis and a longer individually designed project, both of which are supported by individual tutorials. more...	LDCE2Z24	20	Semester 2
Nineteenth-Century Writing This module introduces students to classics of nineteenth-century fiction, primarily British but also including two famous French novels to provide comparative foil. The lectures will direct attention to such formal and ideological matters as the free indirect style, literary realism, authorial omniscience and moral didacticism, the representation of history, comic and gothic elements, and the shift towards aestheticism and impressionism in the second half of the century. These features will be related to larger patterns of social change, notably changing relations between social classes, the role of the novel in bourgeois ideology, moral urgency and complacency, the repression of women, the retreat from progressive models of history and the development of a commodifying cultural sphere. more...	LDCE2Z30	20	Semester 2
Cultural Theory and Analysis This seminar module introduces a range of critical approaches to ideas of culture and encourages their assessment and application, paying particular attention to the role of literature and visual culture (art, film, advertising). Organised broadly historically and focussing on the twentieth century, it considers different appraoches to 'culture', including key debates around the concept of 'high' and 'low' culture and power, the impact of mass culture, culture industries, gender and culture, modernism and postmodernism. Theorists to be studied include Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Dick Hebdige, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler and Fredric Jameson. Assessment is by means of joint or individual seminar presentation which is then written up and a longer essay. more...	LDCE2X17	20	Semester 1
War Lives: Writing Britain in World War II World War II brought the horror of war home to the British. War invaded the country in new ways: it reshaped Britain's landscapes, radically altered the social practices of everyday life, and shattered people's very sense of what it meant to live. As one writer remarked, the war "worked at a thinning of the membrane between the 'this' and the 'that'. War life, for many, was hallucinatory, and the struggle to write the war, and its peculiar relation to Britain's home-front, invades the writing of the 1940s in strange and unpredictable ways. This module examines both fiction (short stories and novels) and non-fiction (essays and letters) by writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, A. L. Barker, Angus Wilson, Henry Green and Patrick Hamilton, as well as critical work on the literature of the period, to examine how writing in and about Britain during the Second World War struggled to account for the uncertainties and instabilities of war lives. more...	LDCE2X34	20	Semester 2

LDCD2

From Tragic to Epic Performance Through readings of classical and neo-classical generic criticism, as well as through an investigation of performance and staging demands, the module examines classical, post-classical and early modern forms of tragedy, and contrasts them with the complex emergent forms of tragicomedy and (later) epic, which, in different ways, re-model or resist the central experience of tragic reception. The course will look at plays selected from different genres, countries and periods, e.g. classical Greek (Sophocles) and Roman (Seneca) French Neoclassical (Racine), Spanish golden age (Lope de Vega Calderon), English Jacobean (Middleton and Rowley, Ford), Japanese Kabuki, post-revolutionary German (from Schiller to Brecht). By positing strategies for reading and performing such plays, it will thus develop a deeper knowledge of stage history and of complex theatrical styles. It will also engage with critical discourse, especially in aesthetics and genre criticism (Zeami, Aristotle, Castelvetro, Dryden, Lessing, Brecht). more...	LDCD2X47	20	Semester 1
Drama Outreach Project Reserved for students on courses: W400U1, WQ43U1, WW84U1. Group practical theatre work which entails public performance to target audiences in the community or on campus. more...	LDCD2X30	20	Semester 2
Political Theatre This module examines the use of theatre and performance - by the State, by oppositional groups, by political activists and by theatre and performance practitioners - to solidify or challenge structures of power. The course looks at specific examples of how theatre and public spectacles have been used in the twentieth century to control or contest the political stage. Examining American, South America, African, Russian, and Eastern European performance in the twentieth century, this class will document and explore through specific performances, videos, dramatic texts and theoretical essays, how performance in theory and practice can be used to explore issues to race, ethnicity, gender, political upheaval and social change within a society. more...	LDCD2X02	20	Semester 2
Performance Skills: the Actor and the Text This module is reserved for Drama majors (W400), Drama/Literature Joints (WQ43), Scriptwriting and Performance (WW84), and Theatre Directing Masters students. Drama Minors wishing to apply must first seek approval for inclusion from Mr T. Gash. The main methods of study are through: (1) individual performance of poems and speeches, (2) scene classes, (3) character study of roles in classic plays. more...	LDCD2X27	20	Semester 1
Adaptation: Shakespeare On Stage and Screen This module explores the rich dramatic and cinematic traditions of Shakespearean adaptation. It considers a range of adaptations, from the seventeenth-century restoration versions of Macbeth, King Lear and The Tempest to more recent film versions of Shakespeare's plays, examining the light that adaptive transformations may cast on both the original plays and on the different social and cultural circumstances of the new productions. Through exploration of specific adaptations of Macbeth, King Lear and Henry V, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, the module explores the place of Shakespeare's plays on the Caribbean stage, in Japanese film, in Germany and Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, and in more contemporary twentieth and twenty-first-century culture. more...	LDCD2X45	20	Semester 1
Creative Industries Research Project (Aut) Either an extended piece of research and writing on a drama-related topic selected by the individual with the approval of the module organiser, or an approved and supervised solo performance piece. As with LDCD2X20, this module is available to students on the three Drama programmes (W400, WQ43 and WW84) in LDC and elsewhere, on prior approval of a viable proposal by the Drama faculty. more...	LDCD2X35	20	Semester 1
Creative Industries Research Internship (Spr) Supervised placements and internships in one or other of the performance orientated creative industries in Britain or elsewhere. As with LDCD2X36, this module is available to students on the three Drama programmes (W400, WQ43 and WW84) in LDC and elsewhere, on prior approval of a viable proposal by the Drama faculty. more...	LDCD2X20	40	Semester 2
Creative Industries Research Project (Spr) Either an extended piece of research and writing on a drama-related topic selected by the individual with the approval of the module organiser, or an approved and supervised solo performance piece. As with LDCD2X20, this module is available to students on the three Drama programmes (W400, WQ43 and WW84) in LDC and elsewhere, on prior approval of a viable proposal by the Drama faculty. more...	LDCD2X36	20	Semester 2
World Performance	LDCD2X16	20	Semester 2
Creative Industries Research Internship (Aut) Supervised placements and internships in one or other of the performance orientated creative industries in Britain or elsewhere. As with LDCD2X35, this module is available to students on the three Drama programmes (W400, WQ43 and WW84) in LDC and elsewhere, on prior approval of a viable proposal by the Drama faculty. more...	LDCD2X19	40	Semester 1

Free Choice Study (40 credits)

Students can select modules worth 40 credits from the course catalogue with the approval of their School.

Year 3

Compulsory Study (30 credits)

Students will select 30 credits from the following module(s).

Name	Code	Credits	Period
Film and Television Studies Dissertation (Spring) AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1QW36301, U1TW76301, TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301 AND U1P300302. This module provides the opportunity to work on an independently researched dissertation on some aspect of Film and/or Television Studies. You are able to choose whether you do the dissertation module in the Autumn or the Spring Semester of your final year, whichever fits in better with your schedule of modules. (See also FTVF3F75 - note that you cannot take both modules.) Topics are individually negotiated. They need not relate directly to material taught in previous modules, although it is expected that dissertations will draw on and reflect upon perspectives and methodologies introduced earlier in the degree course. more...	FTVF3F76	30	Semester 2
Film and Television Studies: Dissertation (Aut) AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1QW36301, U1TW76301, U1TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301, U1P300302 This module provides the opportunity to work on an independently researched dissertation on some aspect of Film and/or Television studies. You are able to choose whether you do the dissertation module in the Autumn or the Spring Semester of your final year, whichever fits in better with your schedule of modules. (See also FTVF3F76 - note that you cannot take both modules.) Topics are individually negotiated. They need not relate directly to material taught in previous modules, although it is expected that dissertations will draw on and reflect upon perspectives and methodologies introduced earlier in the degree course. more...	FTVF3F75	30	Semester 1
Practice-Based Dissertation (Aut) You must have taken one of more of the following modules in order to progress onto the Practice-Based Dissertation: FTVF2P20, FTVF2F23,FTVF2P32, FTVF2P33, FTVF2P81, FTVF2P82, FTVF3P80, FTVF3P81, FTVF3P82. In taking this module, you cannot take any of the other FTV Dissertation modules. This module provides the opportunity to work on a practice-based dissertation investigating some aspect of Media, Film and/or Television studies. Students are expected to use audio-visual means to explore an academic question, engaging with a critical concept in both the practical and written elements of the Dissertation. Topics and amounts of practical work are individually negotiated. Students are also expected to build upon an area of practice previously learned through experience on practice-based modules in the areas of either audio-visual work or screenwriting, dependent on which type of practice module was previously studied. Students are also expected to produce practical dissertation work that refers to, and makes use of, relevant theoretical debates and issues. All practice-based dissertations will contain practical work, a developmental portfolio and an element of critical evaluation. Team-centred projects will be considered, but each team member must be able to demonstrate the validity of their individual dissertation project. ONLY AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH FTV. more...	FTVF3P83	30	Semester 1
Practice-Based Dissertation (Spr) You must have taken one of more of the following modules in order to progress onto the Practice-Based Dissertation: FTVF2P20, FTVF2F23,FTVF2P32, FTVF2P33, FTVF2P81, FTVF2P82, FTVF3P80, FTVF3P81, FTVF3P82. In taking this module, you cannot take any of the other FTV Dissertation modules. This module provides the opportunity to work on a practice-based dissertation investigating some aspect of Media, Film and/or Television studies. Students are expected to use audio-visual means to explore an academic question, engaging with a critical concept in both the practical and written elements of the Dissertation. Topics and amounts of practical work are individually negotiated. Students are also expected to build upon an area of practice previously learned through experience on practice-based modules in the areas of either audio-visual work or screenwriting, dependent on which type of practice module was previously studied. Students are also expected to produce practical dissertation work that refers to, and makes use of, relevant theoretical debates and issues. All practice-based dissertations will contain practical work, a developmental portfolio and an element of critical evaluation. Team-centred projects will be considered, but each team member must be able to demonstrate the validity of their individual dissertation project. ONLY AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH FTV. more...	FTVF3P84	30	Semester 2

Option A Study (30 credits)

Students will select 30 credits from the following module(s).

Name	Code	Credits	Period
Analysing Media Discourses The module will explore some of the main approaches to the analysis of media texts including structuralism, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis. These approaches will be discussed in relation to films like James Bond, advertising campaigns like the ones by the United Colors of Benetton, and newspaper articles on current affairs. The aim of the module is to bring together theory and hands-on analysis and research in media products. more...	PSI-3A41	30	Semester 1
Asian Cinema 'Asian Cinema' is a category of films increasingly in evidence in diverse places ranging from cinemas to high street shops. Recent years have seen a variety of Asian cinema incursions into global film culture, from Bollywood in UK multiplexes to Hong Kong action styles used in the Hollywood blockbuster. Inherent within the label are debates of resistance, industry, art, technology and aesthetics that have held sway since the dawn of cinema worldwide. In this module we break down these discourses and address the significant cultural, economic and political influences that Asian cinemas have had, and indeed still have, within world culture. more...	FTVF3F68	30	Semester 2
Celebrity The module will explore the phenomenon of celebrity and fame from its origins to the present day, moving across a range of different media, including film, television, print media and the internet. In the process, it will examine key approaches to the study of celebrity, paying particular attention to the cultural formation of celebrity and how it is bound up with structures of power (e.g gender, class, ethnicity). It will feature a range of case studies that will include Classical Hollywood cinema, the coming of television, the supposed 'tabloidization' of print media, the birth of Reality TV, the growth of the celebrity scandal and the relationship between celebrity and the internet. more...	FTVF3F64	30	Semester 2
Creative Work in the Media Industries This module offers students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the industries that many of them may well wish to work in. The media industries are those that produce culture, and so they naturally include television, film, music, publishing (books, newspapers and magazines) and so on. People often want to work in the media since this kind of work offers opportunities to be `creative', to think independently and engage in activities which interest them already. But what does `creativity' mean in different kinds of media work and what kind of conditions do those working in the media typically face? To explore such questions, we reflect on changes in the nature of work itself in modern societies. That is, when so much modern work is either temporary and precarious, with many in advanced industrial countries working longer hours than ever before, is there a danger that work is detracting from the quality of our lives rather than enhancing it? The module explores the potential to find pleasure, fulfilment (and a steady income), as well as pressure, frustration and precariousness in media work. It also looks at the extent to which it is feasible to do `good work' in the media industries, as they become seemingly ever more commercial and competitive. How possible is it to produce challenging, innovative, groundbreaking, thoughtful or just genuinely entertaining media products? This means engaging with academic research and other writing, both historical and contemporary in nature. The above issues cannot be addressed through simple description. They raise important theoretical and historical issues about the place of artistic and professional creativity in modern societies. more...	FTVF3F57	30	Semester 1
Crime Television This module explores crime and investigation in recent US television, encompassing formal developments such as the use of group formats, specialist teams and genre hybrids. It considers theoretical/critical issues that may include the value and limits of approaching television via genre, representations of urban US life, the (lack of) engagement with questions of race, gender and the female investigator, gender and sex crimes, the statement and transgression of social/cultural taboos to do with sex, violence and identity and the increasing significance - post 9/11 - of paranoid narration, the investigation of terrorism as crime and the policing of US civil society. This module is taught by seminar and screening. more...	FTVF3F92	30	Semester 2
Gender and Genre in Contemporary Cinema This module offers an overview of critical and theoretical approaches to gender and genre in contemporary cinema, focusing particularly on North American cinema. Topics explored may include: new women and new men - the articulation of gender in popular and 'independent' American cinema since 2000; feminism and authorship; the response of mainstream and independent cinema to the political and cultural contexts of postfeminism; race and the limits of feminist representation; masculinity, homosociality and Hollywood genre. The module is taught by seminar, tutorial and screening. more...	FTVF3F10	30	Semester 2
Political Communication This module looks behind the headlines about politics and analyses the processes by which those headlines are created. It encourages students to think about the way in which we engage with politics. Are we being persuaded about our politics or are we being subject to propaganda? Is war only what we see on our TV screens or read about in the newspaper? Do politicians have to be telegenic to be elected? Does it matter if our only source of news is via the internet? Can new media really been seen as the cause of revolution? These are just some of the questions which we might discuss. This module also links together processes of politics and communication to ask some of the `big' political questions of the day: what is being communicated politically to us, by whom, and why? What methods do elites use to communicate to us? And how do we as citizens communicate politically to elites? And what impact does that communication have on our politics? Centred around issues of ideology and power, and combining theory and empirics, this module asks questions about the nature of politics and communication through a range of topics which may include: election campaigns; spin; war and foreign policy; the political economy of news production; common sense; politics beyond the nation state; and revolution. more...	PSI-3A10	30	Semester 2
Professional Video Production This module gives students the opportunity to produce digital video projects to specifications set down by the university and a range of external bodies. The briefs might include events such as conferences, study days and exhibitions or might involve students working with community groups to produce video based material. Students will benefit from a holistic experience, working in groups to take projects from brief to realisation and will gain a professional experience in producing viable yet creative production solutions to the specifications of their `clients'. This module will provide experience of working in a `real life' style production scenario and as such will be a valuable addition to the CV of any student wishing to pursue a career within the demanding and competitive production company environment. more...	FTVF3P81	30	Semester 1
Professional Video Production This module gives students the opportunity to produce digital video projects to specifications set down by the university and a range of external bodies. The briefs might include events such as conferences, study days and exhibitions or might involve students working with community groups to produce video based material. Students will benefit from a holistic experience, working in groups to take projects from brief to realisation and will gain a professional experience in producing viable yet creative production solutions to the specifications of their `clients'. This module will provide experience of working in a `real life' style production scenario and as such will be a valuable addition to the CV of any student wishing to pursue a career within the demanding and competitive production company environment. more...	FTVF3P82	30	Semester 2
Science Fiction Cinema Science Fiction is currently a key genre in popular cinema, providing a significant focus for addressing social, cultural and political issues. This module follows the historical development of the genre and looks at changes in the way both mainstream and alternative films have addressed such issues. Films we look at range from silent classics such as 'Le Voyage dans la Lune' and 'Metropolis' to the more recent 'Independence Day', 'The Fifth Element', and 'The Matrix'. Other screenings might include 'Things to Come', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'Demon Seed', 'Alien', 'The Brother from Another Planet', 'Robocop' and 'Akira'. Separate screenings. more...	FTVF3F07	30	Semester 1
Selling Spectacle Spectacle is the cornerstone of the modern film industry, in Hollywood and in other national cinemas around the world. Blockbusters and other films are produced, marketed and exhibited using epic language, hyperbolic visuals and overblown promotional materials. Yet despite these excessive claims, the world of selling spectacle and epic marketing techniques are often overlooked in academic or critical discussions. This module will explore the history of spectacle within the global film industries, the cinematic technologies that have been created to enhance that spectacle, and the advertising and promotional techniques that were utilised to emphasise and display it. Following the work of theorists such as Tom Gunning, Geoff King, Janet Staiger and Barbara Klinger, the module will demonstrate the historical development of spectacle and selling that lies behind the modern system of film production, distribution and exhibition. Understanding the theory and methodologically distinct approaches needed to analyse posters, press books, trailers, websites, interviews, and critical reviews will be an essential component to this module. Students will be expected to engage with both theories of film advertising and analysis of marketing materials and other related epiphenomena. While the module will consider some films that may be described as belonging to the `epic' genre ('The Ten Commandments', 1956; or 'Gladiator', 2000) this module is not concerned with generic traits so much as spectacular production practices throughout film history, and the industrial practices that were invented to educate audiences in such new, spectacular, images and concepts. Using specific case studies, the module will trace the historical development of spectacle within filmmaking, and its role in redefining the function of film advertising and promotion. more...	FTVF3F45	30	Semester 1
Stanley Kubrick: Films in Context Stanley Kubrick is regarded as one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, with '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) and 'Dr Strangelove' (1964) being listed in critics' polls as two of the best films ever made. Kubrick also was one of the most commercially successful directors of the 1960s and 1970s. This module concentrates on the 11 full-length films he made from 1956 to 1999, but also considers his early career as a photo-journalist and maker of documentary shorts and short features. The module examines the production, themes, style and reception of Kubrick's films, and situates them in the context of broader developments in American cinema, culture and politics. more...	FTVF3F52	30	Semester 2
Subtitling and Dubbing (Level 3) This module is an introduction to aspects of subtitling and dubbing in different media and multimedia contexts (television, radio, cinema, world wide web), and to issues associated with these activities in the age of globalisation. A range of materials and processes will be considered (e.g. film subtitling, subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, subtitling and dubbing in news reports or documentaries, subtitling and dubbing in the context of multimedia localisation) to investigate key features and concerns involved in transposing text across communication channels, media, forms and codes. Assessment commensurate with level. Taught with LCS-2T11. more...	LCS-3T17	20	Semester 1
Teenage Kicks: Media, Youth and Subculture This module will address the historical development of the commercial youth market and introduce key debates relating to young people and their uses of mainstream and underground media. It will examine a range of theoretical approaches to youth culture, subculture and post-subculture, employing case studies of popular and alternative music, club culture, film, television, subcultural style and new digital technologies. It will address questions of ideology, identity and representation, most significantly issues of class, gender, race and ethnicity, and encourage students to discuss how cultural interests and practices are used to construct individual and group identities. It will focus primarily on the British post-war context ' highlighting the influence of American popular culture, Black Diaspora and technological transformation on British youth ' but will also examine young people's media use and subcultures in other national and transnational contexts. The emphasis will be on analysing the extent to which cultural power is negotiated and resisted through shared media consumption and subculture formation more...	FTVF3F61	30	Semester 1
Women, Islam and Media BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST TAKE EITHER FTVF1F09 OR TAKE PSI-1A05 OR TAKE PSI-1A06 This module intends to explore the relationship between women and Islam in contemporary media; particularly in film and television. The module is interdisciplinary in scope with readings and theoretical underpinnings from film and television studies as well as media, cultural and gender studies. The module is arranged thematically and focuses on different aspects of the relationship between women and Islam. Some of the themes and topics that will be studied in the module are: the political and religious resonance of the veil; Orientalism and Occidentalism's significance to media studies; representations of consequences of arranged marriage in television; honour killings; trauma, terror and Islam and the representation of women as terrorists in films; the representation of silence, women and Islam in television adverts; international women's film festivals. more...	FTVF3F83	30	Semester 1

Option B Study (60 credits)

Students will select 60 credits from the following module(s).

You may pick any of the modules that begin with:

LDCC3

Creative Writing Dissertation (Spr) This is an advanced level module which is for final year CW minors. The module allows students an opportunity to write a substantial short story (approximately 6000 words) or drama script (60 pages) or collection of poems (15-25 poems, totalling between 270 and 290 lines) and to develop an understanding of their own motivations, influences and processes through the production of a reflective self-commentary (2000 words). This module aims to encourage independent learning and the initiation and development of new creative material in a way that provides a grounding in the disciplines necessary both for postgraduate research and the professional practice of writing. more...	LDCC3X08	30	Semester 2
Creative Writing Dissertation (Aut) This is an advanced level module which is for final year CW minors. The module allows students an opportunity to write a substantial short story (approximately 6000 words) or drama script (60 pages) or collection off poems (15-25 poems, totalling between 270 and 290 lines) and to develop an understanding of their own motivations, influences and processes through the production of a reflective self-commentary (2000 words). This module aims to encourage independent learning and the initiation and development of new creative material in a way that provides a grounding in the disciplines necessary both for postgraduate research and the professional practice of writing. more...	LDCC3X07	30	Semester 1
Creative Writing Dissertation (Spr) THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCC3X08: CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCC3X10	20	Semester 2
Creative Writing This is an advanced module for final year Creative Writing minors. Students on other LDC degree courses may be considered but only if they have previously achieved a grade of at least 68% in a level 2 Creative Writing module. Under the guidance of an experienced practising writer, the seminar will take the form of workshops designed to promote group discussion both of students' own work and the work of established authors. Consideration will be given to the technical and expressive aspects of drafting and re-drafting in any genre with a view to shaping and completing a substantial piece of work. Reserved for students on courses: Q3W8U1, QT37U1, QV31U1, VQ53U1, Q300U1, Q300U2, Q200U1, Q201U1. more...	LDCC3W18	30	Semester 2
Creative Writing THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCC3W18: CREATIVE WRITING AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCC3W20	20	Semester 2
Creative Writing Dissertation (Aut) THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCC3X07: CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (AUT) AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING AND EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCC3X09	20	Semester 1

LDCE3

Fin De Siecle: Fantasies of Decadence and Degeneration Max Nordau's 1892 Degeneration, attacking fin de siecle decadence, draws together fears of cultural decline and corrupting artistic practice through pseudo-Darwinian thinking about devolution. Yet Nordau's urgent and apocalyptic claims about 'diseased' art draw an ambivalent response from contemporary writers, such as those associated with the aestheticism and decadence of The Yellow Book. It is within the fantastic, however, that Nordau is most directly confronted and social norms most explicitly deformed by art. Wilde's swift move from pedestal to pederast may remove a key figure, but texts such as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Novel of the White Powder; Dracula; Wells' science fiction dystopias and, more recently, Moore and Campbell's From Hell, rehearse, react to, or reflect upon such concerns. These writings share a central tension: are the effects of decadence and degeneration offering pessimistic prophesy or optimistic alternatives? This module would complement nineteenth-century options and offer a perspective on the Modernist module. For students also taking the Gothic it would be related, although usefully focusing on the closing years of the nineteenth century with a different emphasis. more...	LDCE3X50	30	Semester 2
Henry James: Questions of Art, Life and Theory In this module students engage with the range of Henry James's writing and also the reproduction of his life and work in contemporary culture. This module aims not simply to add to understanding of James but also to explore the issues that his work raises in relation to the art and history of fiction, philosophy and cultural reproduction. It is suitable not only for literature students who want to study this writer who spans realism and modernism, and short stories, literary criticism and fiction, but also for creative writing students and literature and philosophy students. The final assignment will have a creative writing option that comprises a piece of creative writing with a critical reflection. It can be taken by students who have studied modules in nineteenth-century writing or modernism. more...	LDCE3Z42	30	Semester 2
Literature Dissertation: Post-1789 (Spr) This module is an advanced-level module, for final year students only. It provides students with the opportunity to write an 8000-word dissertation on literature of the period from 1789 to the present day (excluding American literature). The dissertation topic must be agreed by a supervisor, and both topic and supervisor approved by the module organiser by the end of the previous semester. more...	LDCE3X18	30	Semester 2
Nervous Narratives `We all say it's nerves, and none of us knows what it means', says a character in Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel, The Woman in White. Our aim is to think about how a discourse of the `nerves' ' the `nervous temperament' and nervous illness ' can be both so pervasive culturally and so slippery in its meaning. This interdisciplinary module takes you from the late 17th century, when the concept of `neurologie' first emerged, to the 21st century, linking literary, medical and philosophical writing to explore the representation of the `nerves'. The historical range of the module is not meant to imply a transhistorical understanding of nervous illness or temperament, but rather will enable us to analyse the historically specific nature of the nervous body and what it is made to mean, culturally, within different contexts. In this way, we will be working with issues as diverse as religious `enthusiasm', hysteria and hypochondria, sensibility, sensation, fear of modernity, manliness and effeminacy, shell-shock, PTSD and the concepts of the healthy or fragile body of the nation. Spanning time and genre, the literary texts studied will take us from the earliest, Jonathan Swift's satire, A Tale of a Tub (1704) up to the contemporary: Siri Hustvedt's novel, What I Loved (2003) and her analytical memoir, The Shaking Woman, Or, A History of My Nerves (2010). more...	LDCE3X83	30	Semester 1
Literature Dissertation: Post-1789 (Aut) This module is an advanced-level module, for final year students only. It provides students with the opportunity to write an 8000-word dissertation on literature of the period from 1789 to the present day (excluding American literature). The dissertation topic must be agreed by a supervisor, and both topic and supervisor approved by the module organiser by the end of the previous semester. more...	LDCE3X15	30	Semester 1
Literature and Human Rights Reading key philosophical, political, legal and literary texts, this module will track the emergence of human rights as a cultural idea from their conception in the eighteenth century, through to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and beyond in the period after World War Two. The module will address the following questions: What type of human being was presupposed by the declarations of rights? How did the novel help form perceptions about rights and human sympathy? In what ways did the UDHR re-imagine concepts of human rights after the Holocaust? How were these changes reflected in new forms of post-war writing, such as post-colonial and late modernist writing? How can we think about the relation between rights and literature today? This module will suit students who have enjoyed the challenges of philosophy and literary theory. It should also appeal to those who are interested in thinking seriously about the relationship between literature and its `real world' applications and significance. more...	LDCE3X54	30	Semester 2
Chaucer This module explores Chaucer's major writings in their historical, cultural and literary contexts. The module will introduce Chaucer's writing in a range of genres and will examine his works' representation and exploration of society, identity, chivalry, politics, religion and gender, and will also consider the medieval reception of Chaucer's writing. Previous experience of medieval literature will be useful but is not required. more...	LDCE3Y05	30	Semester 1
Drama and Literature: the Question of Genre This seminar will explore the boundaries between drama and other genres (kinds, art-forms, media) in an attempt to investigate a number of interrelated theoretical questions. We shall explore these issues via various types of activity - practical criticism, critiques of literary theory, performance analysis, dramatising prose narrative. The set texts are works of literature which do not quite fit generically - particularly plays that seem to be in some sense 'epic', or novels in some sense 'theatrical', ranging from Shakespeare in the 17th century through to Gay and Fielding in the 18th and Dostoyevsky and Chekhov in the 19th. more...	LDCE3X06	30	Semester 2
John Milton's Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is perhaps the finest poem in the language. Its ambition is breathtaking: it begins before time, ends with time, spans the whole of the created universe, and yet focuses on a single, human relationship, on betrayal, recrimination and reconciliation. It is an attempt to explain the co-existence of evil and an omnipotent good God, a response to defeated political aspirations, and an attempt to create a republican poetics. In the module we will read the poem intensively, and seek to understand it in its historical context. Was there a republican aesthetic? How did writers respond to the collapse of radical political ideals and (comparative) religious toleration when 1660 brought the restoration of Charles II? How have literary historians participated in the occlusion of Britain's republican traditions? While there are no pre- or co-requisites, some knowledge of seventeenth-century literature or history, especially through LITE2Y13 Seventeenth-Century Writing, would be an advantage. more...	LDCE3Y70	30	Semester 2
Madness, Medicine, Science and Women's Writing in the Regency This module will study late 18th-century and early 19th-century writings in the context of scientific and medical innovation. We consider whether it may be appropriate to view the work of novelists such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley as a response to, and even a protest against these newly (or, more correctly, nearly) professionalised, male-dominated worlds. These women writers often concern themselves with the 'consumers' as well as the providers of the services offered by these professions; this module considers why that might be and how this kind of contextualisation might impact upon our readings of their work. more...	LDCE3X75	30	Semester 1
Virgil's Classic Epic This module will explore the centrality of Virgil's Aeneid to Medieval and Renaissance culture. It will examine developing attitudes to the Classical literary legacy and accommodation and reinvention of Virgil's epic poem within new religious, political and literary contexts. The course will begin with exploration of Virgil's poem on its own terms before turning to reworkings of the 'Aeneid' by Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Douglas and Marlowe, the Renaissance invention of a 13th Book to 'complete' Virgil's poem, and the recasting of classical epic within the very different conventions of medieval and Renaissance romance. Previous experience of classical or medieval literature is not required. more...	LDCE3Y18	30	Semester 2
Ulysses This module will provide students with the opportunity to read one of the most famous, yet notoriously unread, novels of the twentieth century. The module has a number of aims. First, it will give students the time and opportunity to try to read and understand James Joyce's Ulysses. Secondly, the module will introduce students to some of the formal innovations typical of modernist writing through the close analysis of techniques such as interior monologue and mythic analogy. Thirdly, it will allow students to read a wide range of responses to Ulysses, both among Joyce's contemporaries, and in the history of twentieth century criticism. Fourthly, the module will situate the text historically, with a particular focus on the way that the text's obscenity affected its reception and circulation in the 1920s and 1930s. more...	LDCE3Z50	30	Semester 2
The Condition of England Novel 1818-2000 This module will examine the classic nineteenth-century 'Condition of 'England' novel alongside mid-to-late twentieth-century representations of England (and myths of national identity). Attention will be given to post-colonial writing as a significant part of the question: What is it to be English (or British)? more...	LDCE3Z09	30	Semester 1
The Literature of World War One The module will examine representations of World War One. As a Level 3 module, the focus will be inter-disciplinary. Literary materials will be contextualised using historical and other sources. Use will also be made of memoirs, letters, diaries, and photographs. Students will be encouraged to conduct research using the internet and other facilities. more...	LDCE3Z10	30	Semester 2
Literature and Deconstruction In an interview with Derek Attridge, Jacques Derrida describes literature as `this strange institution which allows one to say everything'. This module explores the writings of Derrida and related thinkers alongside a range of literary texts, including works by Keats, Shakespeare and Joyce. Through a combination of lectures and seminars, we will think about the strangenesses of literature, look at the ways in which it is an `institution' and consider the kinds of freedom ' of speech, writing and thinking ' it permits. Our aim throughout will be to establish the possibilities for literary criticism opened up by deconstruction. The module is open to everyone, but may be of particular interest to those who studied critical theory in the second year. more...	LDCE3X87	30	Semester 1
Shakespeare: Shadow and Substance Platonist epistemology permeated Elizabethan culture: the aim of this module is to explore the relationship of Shakespeare's topic of the world as a stage to Neoplatonic conceptions of perception, politics, poetry and love. more...	LDCE3Y36	30	Semester 2
The Gothic This module seeks to cover some 'canonical' texts of the Gothic Novel (1764-1820) in Walpole, Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and to consider some later developments of the gothic mode in later 19th and 20th centuries: Poe, Le Fanu, Stevenson, MR James, Elizabeth Bowen, David Storey and Angela Carter. The course also seeks to introduce students to some of the theoretical and historical arguments around the contested nature of the term 'gothic', the Uncanny, the subversiveness or otherwise of this kind of writing, and its relation to the novel genre. more...	LDCE3X41	30	Semester 1
Satire `Satire is problematic, open ended, essayistic, ambiguous in relation to history, uncertain in its political effects, resistant to final closure, more inclined to ask questions than provide answers, ambivalent about the pleasures it offers' (Dustin Griffin). The aim of this module is to investigate the problematic territory of satire. Using examples from modern and contemporary fiction and journalism alongside early modern and classical satire, we will formulate a critical and conceptual map, which will in turn allow us to discuss some of the problems of satire (those of genre, of gender, of politics, of morality, of history), and to explore some of the paradoxes of its strategies and functions (freedom versus limits; subversion versus conformity; transformation versus stasis). Writers under discussion will include Juvenal, Horace, Swift and Pope; John Dryden, Aphra Behn, and Lady Mary Wortley Montague; Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, and Jonathan Coe. more...	LDCE3X62	30	Semester 2
Nervous Narratives THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X83: NERVOUS NARRATIVES AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X85	20	Semester 1
Children's Literature THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X67: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X69	20	Semester 1
Queer Literature and Theory THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X58: QUEER LITERATURE AND THEORY AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/ EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X60	20	Semester 2
Literature and Philosophy THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X45: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X61	20	Semester 1
Literature and Human Rights THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X54: LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X56	20	Semester 2
Lost Worlds: Nineteenth-Century Science Writing THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Z64: LOST WORLDS: NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE WRITING AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Z66	20	Semester 2
Madness, Medicine, Science and Women's Writing in the Regency THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X75: MADNESS, MEDICINE, SCIENCE AND WOMEN'S WRITING IN THE REGENCY AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X77	20	Semester 1
Literature and Deconstruction THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X87: LITERATURE AND DECONSTRUCTION AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X89	20	Semester 1
Satire THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X62: SATIRE AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X64	20	Semester 2
Fin De Siecle: Fantasies of Decadence and Degeneration THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X50: FIN DE SIECLE: FANTASIES OF DECADENCE AND DEGENERATION AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X52	20	Semester 2
Children's Literature This module offers students the chance to learn about children's literature and its development and also to try to write a piece of children's literature themselves. It starts with the history of children's literature, looking at its use as a pedagogical tool, moving through Aesop's fables, fairy tales, Mother Goose, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and examining other authors such as A.A. Milne, Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Sherman Alexie and Nancy Garden, amongst others. The course looks at issues of genre and content as well as historical context. By studying the development of children's literature, this module also analyses the development of the concept of childhood in Western society. more...	LDCE3X67	30	Semester 1
Poetry After Modernism This module will survey a wide range of post-war British poetry actively engaged with the Modernist tradition of Eliot, Pound and others. Reading critical texts alongside poems, it will introduce students to lesser-known writers, such as the Welsh poet Lynette Roberts and the Scottish poet W.S. Graham, as well as considering well-known English poets such as Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes from a Modernist perspective. Recognising the influence of contemporary American verse on experimental poets such as J.H. Prynne and Paul Muldoon will also be an important theme. A chronological syllabus will take students from 1945 up to the present day, and there will be a chance to write creatively as well as critically as part of the assessment. Students wishing to take this module must have taken LDCE2Z15 Modernism. more...	LDCE3Z60	30	Semester 2
The Condition of England Novel 1818-2000 THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Z09: THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND NOVEL: 1818-2000 AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Z03	20	Semester 1
Shakespeare: Shadow and Substance THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y36: SHAKESPEARE: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y40	20	Semester 2
Henry James: Questions of Art, Life and Theory THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Z42: HENRY JAMES: QUESTIONS OF ART, LIFE AND THEORY AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Z32	20	Semester 2
Regency Women Writers This module situates the work of various women writers of the Regency period in literary and historical contexts. The main texts under discussion are by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Maria Edgeworth. The unit considers themes which - although not exclusive to women's writing at this time - occur strikingly frequently in the work of Regency women. These themes include sanity, madness and ideas about the mind, and literary devices such as the love-mad woman. Health, ill-health and the development of medicine are central to these fictions and the course, and we also discuss the figure of the doctor, the quack and the 'psychiatrist' in these texts. We look at writings by Regency women travellers whose destinations ranged from Italy to Bath, Sweden and Revolutionary France. more...	LDCE3X80	30	Semester 2
Literature Dissertation: Post-1789 (Spr) THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X18: LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (SPR) AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING AND EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY more...	LDCE3X30	20	Semester 2
Through the Looking-Glass: Nonsense and Modern Writing THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X01: THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: NONSENSE AND MODERN WRITING AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X03	20	Semester 1
Traumaturgies: Reading and Writing Trauma Across Contexts THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X91: TRAUMATURGIES: READING AND WRITING TRAUMA ACROSS CONTEXTS AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X93	20	Semester 1
Literature Dissertation: Pre-1789 (Aut) This module is an advanced-level unit, for final year students only. It provides students with the opportunity to write an 8000-word dissertation on literature of the period up to 1830 (excluding American literature). The dissertation topic must be agreed by a supervisor, and both topic and supervisor approved by the module organiser by the end of the previous semester. more...	LDCE3Y77	30	Semester 1
Revenge Tragedy: Ancient and Modern This seminar explores the different ways in which the concept of revenge has been conceived and represented in a range of dramatic texts. The module covers three distinct groups of primary materials: classical tragedy (in translation) including Aeschylus's Oresteia; early modern revenge tragedy including works by Shakespeare, Tourneur and Kyd; and modern cinematic explorations of the revenge formula including Get Carter, Old Boy and Tarantino's Kill Bill movies. Topics discussed include the relationship between classical and Christian attitudes to revenge, contemporary strictures upon private vengeance, the representation of justice through the ages, the limitations of the revenge tragedy formula. more...	LDCE3Y86	30	Semester 2
Mind, Body and Literature The sense of loss in a Hardy poem, the parallel universe of a science fiction story, the sombre world of a Scandinavian crime novel: all have in common that they make the reader think, feel and possibly act. Drawing on an understanding of literature as writing which both engages and affects us, we look at a variety of literary texts (e.g, by Blake, Hardy, Lawrence, Hughes) and consider what they have in common with the everyday (clocks, teddy-bears, congregation ceremonies) and the bizarre (zombies, unicorns, ghosts). We consider how we understand text worlds, how metaphor relates to the body, whether real emotions can arise from fictional texts. Participants should have an open mind, a desire to understand literary theories, and a readiness to think outside the box. more...	LDCE3X09	30	Semester 1
Literature Dissertation: Pre-1789 (Aut) THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y77: LITERATURE DISSERTATION: PRE-1830 (AUT) AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y79	20	Semester 1
Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century THIS IS A 20 CREDIT VERSION OF LDCEX371: POETRY OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X73	20	Semester 1
Through the Looking-Glass: Nonsense and Modern Writing It's widely recognised that modernist literature is characterised by a revolution of the word. Less widely recognised, and little explored, is the relationship between modernist linguistic experimentalism and literary nonsense, as practised by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and others. This course will begin with these well-known nonsense writers and explore their roots in earlier nonsense, including Shakespeare's, before going on to examine some of the adventures in language of major modernist and postmodernist writers. Authors studied are likely to include late Joyce, early Auden, Stein, Stevens, Cummings, Crane, Nabokov, Koch, Muldoon, Ashbery. The course will also set these avant-garde writers in the unfamiliar context of the mainstream fantasy writers who also come out of Carroll and the nonsense tradition, most likely Tolkien and Peake, whose imaginary worlds are based on their own invented languages. This is not a course on children's literature, but on some very challenging modern literature, though it should appeal to those who take a childish pleasure in wordplay and fantasy, and equally to those intrigued by philosophical issues around language. It would follow on very well from the second-year Modernism module. more...	LDCE3X01	30	Semester 1
Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century The poetry of the nineteenth century is often thought of as being caught between the two stools of Romanticism and Modernism. This module examines the development of poetry from Romanticism to Modernism, and asks in particular whether the poetry of the nineteenth century can claim our attention in its own right, rather than as a late avatar of Romanticism or as a foretaste of the excitements of Modernism. The focus of the module, then, is on close critical engagement with a large range of nineteenth century poetry and poetics, including the work of poet-critic Matthew Arnold, poet-priest Gerard M. Hopkins, and of other writers from Christina Rossetti to Algernon Charles Swinburne. Due notice will also be taken of nineteenth-century continental and American poetry. more...	LDCE3X71	30	Semester 1
Literature and Philosophy This module explores the relations between literature and philosophy and differing understandings of the self, love and ethics through close reading of philosophical and literary texts. It is organised chronologically and moves from the classical writing of Plato to modern literature. The module designed for final year students who are studying Literature and Philosophy. It is also open only to students in Literature who have taken modules in Philosophy in years one and two; or by special concession at the discretion of the module organiser to other students who have substantial experience in both Honours level Literature and Honours level Philosophy. more...	LDCE3X45	30	Semester 1
Literature Dissertation: Post-1789 (Aut) THIS MODULE IS A 20 CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X15: LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST 1789 (AUT) AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X31	20	Semester 1
Poetry After Modernism THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Z60: POETRY AFTER MODERNISM AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Z62	20	Semester 2
Queer Literature and Theory This module offers students the chance to learn about LGBTQ literature and its development in English-speaking countries, as well as approaches to queer theory. This means analysing sexuality and gender and the representation of such identities in literature. Authors studied may include Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Alison Bechdel, Gore Vidal, and Sarah Waters, as well as children's books and young adult novels by Alex Sanchez, Nancy Garden, Ellen Wittlinger, and Marcus Ewert. Authors of theoretical texts looked at may include Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, and Teresa de Lauretis. Understanding how LGBTQ characters are featured in literature also helps us to see how queer people are understood in a given society in general. This course also aims to look at a variety of genres in order to see how these different text types work and how they approach similar material in different ways. more...	LDCE3X58	30	Semester 2
The Gothic THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X41: THE GOTHIC AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X51	20	Semester 1
Mind, Body and Literature THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X09: MIND, BODY AND LITERATURE AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X11	20	Semester 1
Literature Dissertation: Pre-1789 (Spr) THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y78: LITERATURE DISSERTATION: PRE-1830 (SPR) AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y80	20	Semester 2
Traumaturgies: Reading and Writing Trauma Across Contexts Trauma haunts the writing of the twentieth century. Slavery, war, patriarchy, terrorism, genocide, colonialism, modernity, technology and post-modernity: these legacies demand to be written and read, and engender a writing singular to their traumas. Yet the writing of these wounds, and the critical work that reads it, raises fundamental questions about whether trauma can ever be represented or understood. Spreading beyond their contexts, these questions effect their own traumas, cracking open our assumptions about what it is possible to read, to write, and indeed to think. Working roughly from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, this module reads a selection of theoretical, literary and critical texts that aim to write and read trauma across cultural, historical, personal and public contexts. more...	LDCE3X91	30	Semester 1
Literature Dissertation: Pre-1789 (Spr) This module is an advanced-level module, for final year students only. It provides students with the opportunity to write an 8000-word dissertation on literature of the period up to 1830 (excluding American literature). The dissertation topic must be agreed by a supervisor, and both topic and supervisor approved by the module organiser by the end of the previous semester. more...	LDCE3Y78	30	Semester 2
Virgil's Classic Epic THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y18: VIRGIL'S CLASSIC EPIC AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y32	20	Semester 2
Early English Drama THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y81: EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y83	20	Semester 1
Writing Life: Biography and Creative Non-Fiction How do writers attempt to capture 'life' in all its various forms? What, if any, are the different requirements in writing the life of a famous (or not so famous) person and that of a city or landscape? What about the 'life' of travel or food and how do you approach writing about the natural world? These are just some of the questions that this module sets out to address. We will be reading a wide variety of texts, from the 'traditional' biography to some of the more experimental examples of creative non-fiction. From Samuel Johnson to essays in The New Yorker, all human (and non-human) life will be there! Students may choose between writing their own piece of Biography or creative Non-Fiction as their final project or submitting a critical essay. more...	LDCE3X46	30	Semester 2
Ulysses THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Z50: ULYSSES AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Z52	20	Semester 2
Regency Women Writers THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSI0N OF LDCE3X80: REGENCY WOMEN WRITERS AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X82	20	Semester 2
Medieval Arthurian Traditions THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y82: MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN TRADITIONS AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y84	20	Semester 2
Early English Drama This module focuses on the medieval and early sixteenth century period, exploring conceptions and deployments of drama. Comparative work of different forms of drama, the drama and other artistic media, and the drama and social attitudes will be encouraged. You will explore whether drama successfully produces civic unity; how audiences are addressed and constructed; the theatricality of how the Biblical past is imagined, the significance of staging, place, and gesture; the social and political functions of drama, the representation of women; and protests against the drama from various quarters. Our period ends just as the suburban professional theatre was establishing itself in London in a form that was fundamentally influenced by these much earlier dramatic activities. We shall explore how spectacle and ceremony enabled pre-Reformation communities to celebrate their existence and assert an often contested or otherwise problematic sense of their cultural identity. more...	LDCE3Y81	30	Semester 1
Medieval Arthurian Traditions From Welsh folklore to Monty Python, the tales of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have excited and intrigued generations. Why? To answer this question we explore the development of the legend from its twelfth-century Celtic roots through to a number of twentieth-century film adaptations. How the legend has been translated across form, genres, cultures and ages will be studied, including examples from Middle English Arthurian Texts, translations of the Welsh Mabinogion, of Monmouth's Latin chronicle and French romance texts. This module will enable students familiar with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to enhance their awareness of the wider Arthurian traditions within which this text belongs, but is also suitable for students who are encountering medieval literature for the first time. more...	LDCE3Y82	30	Semester 2
Writing Life: Biography and Creative Non-Fiction THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3X46: WRITING LIFE: BIOGRAPHY AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3X48	20	Semester 2
Revenge Tragedy: Ancient and Modern THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y86: REVENGE TRAGEDY: ANCIENT AND MODERN AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y88	20	Semester 2

HISH3

The Age of Bede This module is a 20-credit coursework-only variant of HISH3A65 THE AGE OF BEDE and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH3A67	20	Semester 1
Dissertation in History This module offers students the opportunity to submit a dissertation of 9,000 words on a topic approved by the School. more...	HISH3P2Y	30	Year Period
Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan World After forty years of relative obscurity, Oliver Cromwell emerged as a leader in the parliamentary opposition to the king during the English Revolution and became the most powerful man in Britain. This module will explore the life and times of Cromwell and provide a point of entry into political, religious and social change in early modern England from the long Reformation to the Restoration. It will draw from a host of primary sources to enter into Cromwell's puritan mental world and seek to understand his personal and national aspirations. It will build on this to explore Cromwell's conquest of Ireland and Scotland and his ambitious plans to undermine Spanish power in the Atlantic. Finally, the module will consider Cromwell's controversial reception by contemporaries and his diverse representations in popular culture, film and history. more...	HISH3K05C	30	Semester 1
Youth in Modern Europe The importance of youth as a driving force for social change has been recognised by many historians. Young people were often at the forefront wherever revolutions took place, wars were fought and tensions in society erupted. However, the historical study of youth is still a relatively young discipline. The module uses `youth' as a prism to study key themes in 20th century European history, such as the experience of war, life under dictatorship and the longue dur??e of social change. We shall examine the diverse experience of youth in Western and Eastern Europe during war and peace times, including the Communist and Nazi state-sponsored youth systems, and also the way in which generational experience and conflicts became underlying forces for social and political change. The module employs a strong comparative approach and countries studied include France, Britain, the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The seminars will be accompanied by several film screenings. more...	HISH3J04C	30	Semester 2
Tudor Rebellions This module looks at the nature of rebellions, riot and popular politics in Tudor England. The early part of the module proceeds in a chronological format; and after that, we analyse rebellion in more thematic terms, individual sessions look at: late medieval rebellion; early Tudor rebellion; The Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536; the 1549 rebellions Kett's rebellion, popular rebellion in the 1580s and 1590os; gender and ritual; seditious speech; popular culture; Shakespeare, drama and popular protest; food and enclosure rioting. A lot of use is made of extracts of primary material . After we have studied Kett's Rebellion of 1549, there will be a fieldtrip to examine key sites in Norwich associated with those events. This may possibly end in one of the oldest pubs in Britain; the Adam and Eve. more...	HISH3K08	30	Semester 2
British Intelligence in the 20th Century - Myth and Reality The study of intelligence history has seen considerable growth over the last 20 years, as a result of new archival evidence and above all a growing realisation that intelligence has for long been the "missing dimension" in historical interpretation of 20th century diplomacy, defence policy and strategy and in the operational history of two world wars. A consideration of the impact of intelligence assessment, its acceptance (or rejection) and its proponents has well known areas of historical analysis, particularly in the period from the 1930s to the Cold War. The aim of this module is to examine the current historiography of this "missing dimension" and assess its impact in the interpretation of British strategic and defence policy and to some extent, in internal and imperial security as well as considering popular and fictional interpretations of the intelligence service. more...	HISH3F97C	30	Semester 1
Twentieth Century Sport History This module explores key themes and topics in the history of twentieth century sport, from the founding of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 to the impact which the collapse of socialism had upon sport at the end of the century. Sport's interaction with empire, nationalism, fascism , socialism and capitalism will be considered, demonstrating that the political history and international relations of the century are deeply entwined with sport. A range of examples are examined, from Franco's Spain to the superpower competition of the Cold War. As an aspect of social history, issues of gender, race and disability are inseparable from this topic, as are the harnessing and exploitation of sport as a means of war or reconciliation at various periods throughout the century. more...	HISH3F76	30	Semester 2
The Norman Conquest This module will examine the Old English and Norman states before 1066, the Conquest and the colonisation of the Kingdom of England. Particular attention will be given to the processes by which England was brought under Norman rule, both in the ecclesiastical and secular spheres. The module will be taught through original sources in translation. more...	HISH3K10	30	Semester 2
From `Manchester Manufacturer?? to `International Man??: the Victorian Worlds of Richard Cobden This module will relate the career of Richard Cobden (1804-1865), Britain's leading mid-nineteenth-century Radical statesman, to many different facets of Victorian Britain ' an entrepreneur in Manchester engaged in the new world of the industrial city; as Radical crusader for the repeal of the Corn Laws; as Liberal politician campaigning for the ballot, economic reform, state education and peace; it will examine his career in relation to the 1848 revolutions, the Crimean Wear, the Anglo-French Commercial treaty of 1860, the Cotton Famine, the British Empire and American Civil War. It will draw on Cobden's diaries, writings, published and unpublished letters, providing a unique insight into middle class politics and culture and into British liberalism in its European n international contexts. more...	HISH3H07	30	Semester 1
Edwardian Britain This module will examine the 'crisis of Liberal England' which has dominated modern discussion of this period. Themes will include the rise of new liberalism, the tariff reform controversy, women's suffrage, Home Rule for Ireland, the land question, national efficiency and social reform. more...	HISH3E56	30	Semester 2
Chamberlain, Churchill and Appeasement, 1935-1940 Britain's response to the aggression of the fascist powers in the inter-war period has been the subject of fierce debate for decades, and is still hotly disputed between historians. This module examines British foreign policy in the era of 'appeasement'. It will focus on the period between 1935 and 1940, analysing a range of primary source material in detail. It will explore the role of key policy-makers, their critics, and the domestic context in which policy was constructed. more...	HISH3G13C	30	Semester 1
Napoleonic Europe This module examines the impact of Napoleonic rule on Europe. Beginning with an examination of the foundations of the French Empire, the unit goes on to examine different aspects of Napoleonic rule: social and economic change; culture and ideology; warfare and the state; collaboration and resistance. It will look comparatively at the experience of France, Italy, Germany and Spain under Napoleon, before assessing the reasons for the downfall of the Napoleonic regime. Material used will include memoirs, literature and other contemporary documents. more...	HISH3K01C	30	Semester 1
The Crusades This module will consider the history of the Crusades and the Crusader States from 1095 to 1291, covering a broad range of themes, religious , military and social, and taking into consideration the relations between Christians and Moslems in the Holy Land. Particular attention will be paid to primary sources, which are abundant and available in English translation. more...	HISH3A61C	30	Semester 1
Victorian Underworlds This module introduces students to the darker side of life in Victorian Britain. Though this was undoubtedly a period of economic prosperity, not everyone shared in the gains. In this module we shall look at those who, for reasons of poverty or `deviance' were confined to the margins. Topics will include the poor, the criminal and insane, prostitution, drink, child-workers, the workhouse, the London Irish, homosexuality and the Oscar Wilde case. By looking at the margins and the misfits, we will seek to gain a deeper understanding if British society in the nineteenth century. more...	HISH3H12	30	Semester 2
Tyranny and Revolution: the Age of Richard II This module explores the `Age of Richard II' (1377-99) as revealed in an exceptionally-rich corpus of primary sources. Richard's was a tumultuous reign. To many contemporaries it seemed as if the world was turning upside down as those who traditionally wielded power in English society ' the king, the church and the aristocracy ' faced unprecedented challenges to their authority. Through weekly seminar discussions, members of the class will learn to assess the significance of the reign based on a close reading of selected texts. Two sources in particular will provide the documentary spine of the course: the `Parliament Rolls of medieval England' (recently re-edited in translation and freely available online) and the great chronicle of Thomas Walsingham, a monk of St Albans and perhaps England's foremost chronicler of the period. We will also explore a range of other records and narratives as well as the verse of some of England's most famous medieval poets, many of whom (notably Geoffrey Chaucer) were closely connected to the court of Richard II. The module falls into two parts. Part 1 investigates the political developments from the dying days of Edward III through the Peasant's revolt (1381) to Richard II's final years of `tyranny' (1397-9). Part two adopts a thematic approach. Topics here include parliament, political society, heresy, the Hundred Years War, chivalry and courtliness. We conclude by examining the revolution of 1399, which resulted in Richard's deposition and death. more...	HISH3K17	30	Semester 1
Madness and Medicine This module considers the practice of medicine in Britain from the eighteenth century to the establishment of the NHS. Themes include the impact of science and professions, the organisation and control aspects of medical and hospital services and healthcare as seen by sufferers and patients. more...	HISH3F62C	30	Semester 2
The Industrial Revolution In the two hundred years following 1700, the British economy and population entered a sustained and unprecedented phase of growth. The economic, demographic, social and cultural changes that ensued were so far reaching, that by 1850, commentators were agreed that an 'industrial revolution' had taken place. This module seeks to illuminate the many facets of this transformation, and to explore the extensive historiography surrounding them. This module introduces students both to the economic processes which underpinned industrialisation, and to many ways in which Britons of all social levels ranks experienced and thought about their changing world. more...	HISH3E37C	30	Semester 1
'Redcoats': British Military Power in the Age of the First Global Wars, 1754-1783 This module concerns the experience of the British army in the period of the Seven Years War and American War of Independence. It will examine the organisation and conduct of war in both Europe and America from a British perspective and discuss how the British army coped with the demands of conducting operations in the era of the first truly 'global' wars. more...	HISH3F87C	30	Semester 1
Powerful Words: Education, Culture and Politics in the Middle Ages This module will cover two centuries (1050-1250) during which a cultural revolution took place: the written word, from being remote and confined to a small elite, became conspicuous and increasingly necessary to medieval people - even to those who could not read for themselves. The reasons for this radical change will be explored, as will the new knowledge, the new institutions and the new social groups that the growing role of writing created. The contents of books, as well as their availibility, changed deeply. New Schools (some eventually turning into the first universities) developed, and higher learning moved from monastic to urban settings, training much larger numbers of men. These men were more likely to turn to the secular world for employment after they left the schools, and kings and princes needed the new learned elite to be their courtiers and bureaucrats. The new importance of written words transformed the face of Europe in the realms of religion, culture and politics. more...	HISH3K14	30	Semester 2
Castles, Cannon and Concrete: Landscapes of Fortification From the Middle Ages to the Cold War The module examines the landscape of fortification from the origins of the castle to the Cold War, with the aim of assessing the landscape `footprint' of defended sites. The module starts with the castle and an examination of the place of `fortified residence' in medieval war. We will then go on to assess the artillery forts of the Tudors and the archaeology of the English Civil War. Thereafter we will examine the various schemes for national defence up to 1900 before looking at landscapes of `Total War'. The latter includes both World Wars and the archaeology of Britain's nuclear deterrent. more...	HISH3K06	30	Semester 2
Russia in Revolution 1905-1921 This module will look at the upheavals in Russia between 1905 and the introduction of a limited Parliament, and continue by examining the First World War and the downfall of the Romanov monarchy. We will then study the year 1917 in some detail and discuss the causes of the Bolshevik seizure of power. The Civil War and the reasons of the Communist victory will be analysed. The module will place the Russian Revolutions in their historical, political and geographical context and will consider the impact that these events had in the history of the twentieth century. more...	HISH3F18	30	Semester 2
Landscape III Field Course The field course builds on the landscape archaeology units to provide forty hours of practical instruction in the field. The field course runs for one week in June, concentrating on the recording and analysis of archaeological earthworks, buildings and historic landscapes. Assessment will take the form of a short report and an extended project. THIS 20 CREDIT VERSION IS AVAILABLE TO NON HUM STUDENTS ONLY. more...	HISH3P4Y	30	Year Period
A World At War This module will consider the history of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, looking at the decisive battles that settled its outcome. It interprets `battle' in the widest sense and it will look at `classic' land, sea and air encounters ' from the fall of France to midway, Stalingrad and D Day ' and also at the other critical battles such as the battle of production, the Home Front and the technological battle, from Enigma to the atomic bomb more...	HISH3F01	30	Semester 1
Working in the Historic Environment This module will provide students with the opportunity to undertake a work placement with an employer working in the historic environment sector. A number of placements based on specific projects will be arranged with host organisations, and students will choose their placement from these options. Every student will be expected to attend an informal interview with their host organisation prior to starting their placement. Alternatively, a student may arrange their own work placement but this must be approved in advance by the module organisers. Past placements have been hosted by the National Trust, Norfolk Historic Environment Service, Suffolk County Council and the Peak District National Park Authority. Placements must be undertaken between June and December, and will be followed up by a series of practical seminars in the spring semester. A list of provisional placements and projects will be available in Spring 2012. Please note that enrolment on this module will only be confirmed after a short interview with the module organisers. more...	HISH3H1Y	30	Year Period
British Intelligence in the 20th Century - Myth and Reality The study of intelligence history has seen considerable growth over the last 20 years, as a result of new archival evidence and above all a growing realisation that intelligence has for long been the "missing dimension" in historical interpretation of 20th century diplomacy, defence policy and strategy and in the operational history of two world wars. A consideration of the impact of intelligence assessment, its acceptance (or rejection) and its proponents has well known areas of historical analysis, particularly in the period from the 1930s to the Cold War. The aim of this module is to examine the current historiography of this "missing dimension" and assess its impact in the interpretation of British strategic and defence policy and to some extent, in internal and imperial security as well as considering popular and fictional interpretations of the intelligence service. more...	HISH3F96C	30	Semester 2
Death, Body and Disease: Themes in Medical & Social History This module focuses upon the theory and practice of medicine in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social history. Topics include healing and science; concepts of 'orthodox' and 'alternative' medicine; interpretations of epidemic disease; the sufferer's agenda; minds, brains and bodies; and changing perceptions of death. We will consider contemporary texts and key contributions to the historiographical literature. It is expected that you will have some background in level 2 medical history course modules. more...	HISH3F91	30	Semester 1

LDCD3

Drama Production (Year 3) This module covers the development and delivery of a full-scale theatre production (usually of a scripted, possibly classical play): involving planning, rehearsal, technical contribution, performance and self-evaluation. more...	LDCD3X33	60	Semester 1
Drama Projects Individual performance projects with supervision, leading to presentation (usually before the external examiner). Only available to Drama majors, approved minors and Drama/Literature joint students. more...	LDCD3X38	30	Semester 2
Drama Dissertation An independently researched dissertation of 8000 words on some aspect of drama or dramatic literature, performance theory and practice. This may treat drama in the medium of theatre, TV, film or radio, or it may take the form of a drama script (45-60 minutes running time). more...	LDCD3X35	30	Semester 1
Drama Dissertation An independently researched dissertation of 8,000 words on some aspect of drama or dramatic literature, performance theory and practice. This may treat drama in the medium of theatre, TV, film or radio, or it may take the form of a drama script (45 - 60 minutes running time). more...	LDCD3X36	30	Semester 2
Contemporary Drama and Film The module will examine emergent voices and trends in recent theatre, film and television (mainly British but with some American or European contributions). Issues covered include the (questioned) demise of explicitly political drama and the appearance of previously silenced voices (e.g. gay and lesbian themes, feminist playwrights and writing ethnicity, physical theatre practitioners). more...	LDCD3X34	30	Semester 2
Drama Dissertation THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCD3X36: DRAMA DISSERTATION AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCD3X42	20	Semester 2
Contemporary Drama and Film THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCD3X34: CONTEMPORARY DRAMA AND FILM AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCD3X40	20	Semester 2

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