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.

Disclaimer

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.

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 builds on Literature in History I, bringing the same historical approaches to bear on classical, modern and contemporary fiction, and asking more theoretically searching questions. The module is taught by lectures, with an accompanying seminar. 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. The module will be taught by lecture, seminar and screening. 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. The module will be taught by lecture, seminar and screening. 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
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 relationships to the mass 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, style and new digital technologies. It will address questions of ideology, identity and representation (class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity) and encourage students to discuss how cultural interests and practices are used to construct individual and group identities. The emphasis will be on analysing the extent to which cultural power is negotiated and resisted through shared media consumption and subculture formation. more...	PSI-2A41	20	Semester 1
An Introduction to Latin American Film Recent Latin American films like the Mexican 'Love's A Bitch' and the Brazilian 'City of God' have received critical acclaim at home and abroad and have been great commercial successes. This module takes these films as its starting point and moves on to offer a survey of Latin American cinema up to the present day, including golden age, 'pulp' cinema and horror genres, political cinema, recent co-productions, the cinema of 'smaller' countries, and grassroots video work. more...	LCS-2H57	20	Semester 1
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
European Media and the Eu: News and Documentary This module explores issues relating to the theory and practice in presenting events in news and documentary programmes in European countries; questions not only at the heart of the 'multi-media revolution' but also central to the very notion of a shared European community and identity. Issues analysed include: are information media 'speaking truth to power', or to specific sections of society? Are they free, socially representative, responsible? Themes addressed include: Terrorism, 9/11, Iraq, immigration, EU enlargement, EU constitution and identity, EU foreign policy and the crisis in Georgia, the credit crunch and the euro etc. more...	PSI-2A09	20	Semester 1
Film Noir This module explores 'film noir' as it developed from the 1930s to the 1960s. We will consider the critical construction and limitations of noir as a term, exploring the implications of the category for conceptions of national (and international) cinema culture. We will engage with recent scholarship that seeks to question and qualify established views of noir. Topics explored might include race, ethnicity and the city, noir and authorship, feminist perspectives on noir, crime and melodrama. The module is taught by lecture, screening and seminar. more...	FTVF2F13	20	Semester 1
Indigenous Arts and Indigenous Peoples This module begins by analysing what is meant by Indigenous arts and peoples. In particular, we shall consider the link between the anthropology of art and Indigenous identity. The module continues by examining issues related to the interpretation of indigenous arts in wide-ranging geographic and cultural contexts from North America, to India and Australia. It then questions Indigenous peoples' engagement with notions of ethnicity and heritage, as well as the formation of an 'Indigenous media' through film-making. The module aims to foster an inter-disciplinary approach. more...	ART-2Z28	20	Semester 2
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
Methods of Social Research Students learn how to do research by engaging in a group research project. A variety of research skills can be acquired - interviewing, observation, taking fieldwork notes, computerised data analysis, report writing etc. Although we study some of the theory behind social research, this is mainly a practical module which gives students experience of the realities of social research. Assessment is via an individual research report based on the data collected by the group, and a visual display of the student's research findings. more...	PSI-2A13	20	Semester 1
New Media and Society For better or worse, new digital technologies are hyped at having revolutionised society. This module will provide students with an introduction to the ways in which the internet and other digital technologies are (and are not) affecting society from theoretical and empirical perspectives, and how society shapes technology. Topics covered include: the evolution of the internet; the "network society"; regulating new media; the radical internet and terrorism; social networking, blogs and interactivity; culture and identity in the digital age; and how the internet affects politics and the media. . more...	PSI-2A27	20	Semester 1
Politics and Mass Media Mass media are an inescapable part of contemporary political life. This module examines the many dimensions of mass media's political involvement. We start with arguments about media power, and then go on to look at questions of media bias, before turning to the ways in which political communication has changed (and is changing). We look at the role of the state in using and controlling mass media and the new techniques of media management. This leads to a discussion about media effects. We end by asking what is meant by a democratic media and how new media are changing the relationship between politics and media. This module links closely to Level 3 modules such as Political Communication and Politics and Popular Culture. more...	PSI-2A02	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
Subtitling and Dubbing (Level 2) 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-3T11 and LCS-3T17. more...	LCS-2T11	20	Semester 1
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 Economics of Film and TV The module examines the economic underpinning of Film and Television production and the likely directions of these industries. What will happen to the quality of television programmes after the digital revolution? Why are movie stars paid such fabulous sums of money? Should the BBC continue to exist? And, if so, should it be funded by the licence fee? Why does Hollywood dominate the film industry? These are some of the questions addressed by the module. No previous knowledge of economics is assumed. more...	ECO-2B09	20	Semester 1
The Economics of Film and TV (Cw) This is a coursework only version of ECO-2B09 The Economics of Film and TV. more...	ECO-2B09C	20	Semester 1
The Media and Identity Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches in the field of media and cultural studies, this module explores the relationship between media culture and social identities. Discussing the representation of identity in media content, as well as issues of media production, regulation and consumption, it critically reflects upon the relationship between media culture and social power and considers how social and technological changes impact on the ways in which identity is experienced in everyday life. On successful completion of this module, students should be able, at threshold level, to critically reflect upon the ways in which media texts construct social identity and should be able to discuss the relationship between media and identity with awareness for social, institutional and technological factors that shape both media production and consumption. more...	PSI-2A26	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...	FTVF2F20	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...	FTVF2F23	20	Semester 1

Option B Study (20 credits)

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

Name

Code

Credits

Period

Adaptation: Shakespeare On Stage and Screen

This module explores the rich dramatic and cinematic traditions of Shakespearean adaptation. It focuses on two distinct moments of Shakespearean adaptation: seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century versions of Macbeth, King Lear and Henry V; and twentieth and twenty-first-century film versions of a wide range of Shakespeare's plays. It examines the light that adaptive transformations may cast on both the original plays and on the different social and cultural circumstances of the new productions.The module also explores the various ways in which adaptation can be conceived and practised, and considers the extent to which Shakespeare himself adapted earlier stories and sources when composing his plays. Each week's scheduled teaching for this module consists of a seminar and accompanying screenings. more...

LDCD2X45

Semester 1

Creative Industries Research Project (Aut)

Either an extended piece of research and writing on a drama related topic selected by the individual student with the approval of the module organiser, or an approved and supervised solo performance piece. more...

LDCD2X35

Semester 1

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. more...

LDCD2X36

Semester 2

You may also 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
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...	HISH2F24	20	Semester 2
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
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...	HISH2B94	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
Medieval Monasticism Since the beginnings of its history, western Christendom has been divided over how people should live their lives. Most always chose to pursue normal human ambitions, but a substantial minority consistently pursued an alternative path, hoping to serve God and win rewards in the afterlife. Monasticism - the quest for an alternative life - was constantly evolving, sometimes criticising society, but often winning its approval. This team-taught module, spanning more than thousand years, examines its ideals, thought-patterns, material culture, social impact and constant inner revolutions, from its first appearance to its ultimate eclipse. more...	HISH2G04	20	Semester 2
Nature and Society, 1500-1900 This module will examine the transformation of the natural world and the rise of modern thinking about `nature' across the key centuries of the early modern age, Enlightenment and industrialization. We will see how these changes led not just to altered environments, but to profound shifts in ideas of how human society functioned and should be. The module will cover themes including early modern ideas about nature and the supernatural; landscape change and the `improvement' of the environment; colonial expansion and the huge role of transfers of species between continents; cultural, artistic an literary responses to nature; the rise of Enlightenment and evolutionary science; energy supplies and industrialisation; and green space and pollution in the city. more...	HISH2F14	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
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
Shakespeare's England What sort of society produced Shakespeare? This module examines the background of society, economy and religion. It also considers the context provided by the wider English Renaissance of which Shakespeare was part. Topics covered include patronage and gift-giving; the educational revolution and rhetoric; the development of the English language; monarchy; court and country; great houses; London; the rise of the professional theatres; and the emergent self-image of England; the encounter with the exotic. Extensive use is made of original sources. more...	HISH2F12	20	Semester 2
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 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
Shakespeare's England This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2F12 SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND and is available only to non-HUM and visiting students. more...	HISH2F12C	20	Semester 2
New Worlds: European Expansion and the Colonial Enterprise This module is a coursework only version of HISH2F15 NEW WORLDS: EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND THE COLONIAL ENTERPRISE and is available only to NON HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2F15C	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
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
The History of Norwich, C 1450-1750 In this period Norwich was the second city in the kingdom. Because of Norwich's subsequent decline much of that city survives in 'hidden places' within the present-day environment. This module combines more conventional approaches with fieldwork in the city to enable us to study the nature of urban life and the experience of the early-modern town. There will be opportunities to work in the rich collections that document the city's history. more...	HISH2B37	20	Semester 1
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
Medieval Monasticism This module is coursework-only version of HISH2G04 MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2G04C	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
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
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
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
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
Semester Study A semester's study in History in a European university, organised through the ERASMUS scheme. more...	HISH2X02	60	Semester 2
Victorian Britain This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B73 VICTORIAN BRITAIN and is only available to non-HIS and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B73C	20	Semester 1
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
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
Modern Germany, 1866-1945 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, 1866-1945 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
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
Semester Study in North America This module offers HIS students on the V100 programme the opportunity to spend the Autumn semester of their second year at one of the following universities: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; University of Calgary, Alberta; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; University of Richmond Virginia, Richmond. more...	HISH2X03	60	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 end 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 and Soviet victory in war. more...	HISH2D89	20	Semester 1
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...	HISH2A95	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 Papacy, Christianity and the State, 1050-1300 This unit is a coursework-only version of HISH2A95 THE PAPACY, CHRISTIANITY AND THE STATE, 1050-1300 and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2A95C	20	Semester 1
Medicine and Society Before the 17th Century This module is a coursework only version of HISH2B94: MEDICINE AND SOCIETY BEFORE THE 17TH CENTURY and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2B94C	20	Semester 2
Reformation England: Henry Viii to Oliver Cromwell This module is a coursework only version of HISH2H02 REFORMATION ENGLAND: HENRY VIII TO OLIVER CROMWELL and is available only to NON-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2H02C	20	Semester 2
Nature and Society, 1500-1900 This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2F14 EMPIRES OF NATURE: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN EUROPE AND ITS EMPIRES and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2F14C	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
New Worlds: European Expansion and the Colonial Enterprise This module looks at the European global expansion from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century. Relying on a rich set of primary sources - such as travellers' accounts, diaries, official reports, and written and visual representations of lands which were often completely unknown - this module looks at a wide variety of geographical contexts from Asia to the Americas. Topics to be studied include: travellers and merchants in Asia; the Spanish "conquest" of America; the colonial enterprise and the making of the British empire; politics of conversion and the civilization of the Indians; cultural exchanges; trading contacts and the European market for the exotic and the novel. more...	HISH2F15	20	Semester 1
Queens, Courtesans and Commoners: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe This module is a coursework only version of HISH2F24 QUEENS, COURTESANS AND COMMONERS: WOMEN AND GENDER IN EARLY MODER EUROPE and is available only to NON-HUM and Visiting Students. more...	HISH2F24C	20	Semester 2
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
Reformation England: Henry Viii to Oliver Cromwell This module will explore the violent upheavals and the religious and political turbulence that ensued during England's long Reformation. It seeks to provide a broad overview of the English Reformation from Henry VIII's break with the Church of Rome to the revolutionary circumstances of the mid-seventeenth century. Surveying a wide spectrum of belief and practice, it will address popular understanding of the supernatural, the rise of Catholic and Puritan discontents, and the relationship between religion and violence. It will also explore notions of kingship which were embedded in the doctrine of royal supremacy, the unique character of the Church of England and its relationship to Protestant churches on the continent and the role of reformation in the establishment of English America. more...	HISH2H02	20	Semester 2
Early Modern 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. To this end, we explore the following themes: demographic change, and its effect on economic and the social order; the proliferation of the poor, and formal innovations in relieving them; concepts of tradition, custom and law, and the extension of legalism and state formation after 1600; the oral culture, and the impact of growing literacy and the print revolution; the role of gender, women and the family; the place of religion in society (including popular beliefs), and the transformation imposed by the Protestant Reformation; crime, sin, deviance and punishment; and resistance to authority and change, and consequent expressions of anger seen in rioting. more...	HISH2B31	20	Semester 1
Early Modern England (Cw) This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2B31 EARLY MODERN ENGLAND and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2B31C	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
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...	HISH2H04	20	Semester 2
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
Twentieth-Century Britain: 1914 to the Present This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2G01TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN: 1914 TO THE PRESENT and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2G01C	20	Semester 1
Castles, Cathedrals and Student Protests This module uses the unparalleled riches of East Anglia's buildings and landscapes to help our students explore different forms of revolutionary change from the medieval period to the Cold War and provide students with a thorough grounding and insight into English and European history. It will be taught by a team from the School of History, each of whom will be providing a module element that is drawn from their own research specialism. RESERVED FOR INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY. more...	HISH2IS2	20	Semester 2
Reformation England: Henry Viii to Oliver Cromwell This module will explore the violent upheavals and the religious and political turbulence that ensued during England's long Reformation. It seeks to provide a broad overview of the English Reformation from Henry VIII's break with the Church of Rome to the revolutionary circumstances of the mid-seventeenth century. Surveying a wide spectrum of belief and practice, it will address popular understanding of the supernatural, the rise of Catholic and Puritan discontents, and the relationship between religion and violence. It will also explore notions of kingship which were embedded in the doctrine of royal supremacy, the unique character of the Church of England and its relationship to Protestant churches on the continent and the role of reformation in the establishment of English America. Not to be taken with HISH2H02 more...	HISH2H06	30	Semester 2
Women and Gender in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain Women's history has been one of the most important recent scholarly developments in Modern History. This module can therefore use an extensive literature to explore complex issues about women's experiences since the eighteenth century. Topics include women's activities outside the home - in education, work, and leisure - as well as their 'traditional' role as homemakers and carers. more...	HISH2E04	20	Semester 2
Women and Gender in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain This module is a coursework-only version of HISH2E04 WOMEN AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH2E04C	20	Semester 2

LDCC2

The Writing of Journalism (Spr) This module introduces students to the writing of journalism both as a practice and discourse. An attention to the issues, structures and skills involved in creating effective journalistic writing will be developed through critical engagement with journalism as a craft and cultural practice to probe and challenge our ideas and assumptions about the writing and production of journalism. Our critical engagement with the writing of journalism will be put into practice through individual writing and in seminar workshops to develop a portfolio including short news stories, features, reviews, and profiles. This module will be assessed through a combination of regular short assignments, workshop participation, and projects. more...	LDCC2W28	20	Semester 2
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: 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
The Writing of Journalism (Aut) This module introduces students to the writing of journalism both as a practice and discourse. An attention to the issues, structures and skills involved in creating effective journalistic writing will be developed through critical engagement with journalism as a craft and cultural practice to probe and challenge our ideas and assumptions about the writing and production of journalism. Our critical engagement with the writing of journalism will be put into practice through individual writing and in seminar workshops to develop a portfolio including short news stories, features, reviews, and profiles. This module will be assessed through a combination of regular short assignments, workshop participation, and projects. more...	LDCC2W27	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: Drama (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
Creative Writing: Drama (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
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: 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

The Short Story The module will explore the history and evolution of the short story form in English and some short stories in English translation. It will examine how and why the form came into being and trace the changing ideas about the nature of the short story and its aesthetic possibilities. Authors to be read include Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence and, in translation, Flaubert, Maupassant and Chekhov. more...	LDCE2X32	20	Semester 2
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
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
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
Literature and Desire The aim of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts and procedures of psychoanalysis, and the application of these concepts and procedures to literary texts. Beginning with an analysis of folk tales, we consider structures of desire in Shakespeare, Frankenstein, To the Lighthouse and the Brontes. The module requires systematic reading of the work of Freud, and some reading in Klein and Lacan, and equips students with a precise psychoanalytic understanding of how fantasy and projection contribute to the formation of literary significance. The teaching emphasis is on the presentation of class papers by students leading to intensive group discussions. more...	LDCE2X03	20	Semester 1
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
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
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
The Politics of Language What is 'good English', who decides, and how is it acquired? This module explores this question both critically and practically. It looks at several historical moments when the state of the language has been an object of ideological dispute, from early modern attacks on un-English vocabulary to continuing debates about 'politically correct' speech. It also studies some of the ways in which wrong, condemned, or non-standard language types have been used in literature. Students will also have opportunities to reflect on their own English, both in order to improve it, and in order to understand more of the implications of the lexical, syntactic and stylistic choices they make. more...	LDCE2X30	20	Semester 2
Erasmus Exchange: Autumn Semester LIT, FTV and AMS 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 for the whole year will need in addition to enrol for module LITE2A02. Further details of the ERASMUS scheme are available from the TPO-HUM Year Abroad Office. more...	LDCE2A01	60	Semester 1
Literature and Visual Culture I: Poetry and Painting - Rilke and Modernism Best known as the major German-language poet of the twentieth century, Rilke was inspired throughout his life by the visual arts and his oeuvre includes a substantial body of art criticism. A contemporary of Rodin, Picasso and Klee and admirer of Cezanne and Van Gogh, his insights into the nature of creativity develop an aesthetics in which the gender of the artist plays a vital role, and the parallels drawn between literature and the visual arts shed a fascinating light on Modernism and modern art in Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. more...	LDCE2Z07	20	Semester 1
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
Cultural Theory and Analysis This module introduces a range of critical approaches to ideas of culture and encourages their assessment and application. Organised broadly historically, it considers different approaches to culture, mass culture, popular culture and the media, as well as the inter-relationship between all of these and the 'practice of everyday life'. Theorists to be studied include Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Dick Hebdige, Judith Butler and Frederic Jameson. Assessment is by means of a seminar presentation which is then written up and a longer essay which gives you the opportunity to engage with a particular approach or topic in more depth. more...	LDCE2X17	20	Semester 1
Erasmus Exchange: Spring Semester LIT, AMS and FTV 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 for the whole year will need in addition to enrol for module LDCE2A01. Further details on the ERASMUS scheme are available from the TPO-HUM Year-Abroad Office. more...	LDCE2A02	60	Semester 2
European Literature: Encounters With 'Otherness' This module explores critical and aesthetic issues raised by general and comparative literature, issues of 'influence', reception, intertextuality, translation, national identityand cultural borrowing. Specific examples and case studies may range across different periods and geographies; however, the focus is likely to be on the twentieth century. Works studied may include texts by e.g. Kafka, Rilke, Camus, Sartre, Sebald, Calvino, Celan. more...	LDCE2X24	20	Semester 2

Free Choice Study (40 credits)

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

Year 3

Option A 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

Option B 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
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 and Investigation in Contemporary US 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...	FTVF3F08	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 Political communication occurs on many different levels, and subsequently with different implications and effects. Political communication can be verbal or nonverbal by political actors or about political actors and systems. This module builds upon the Politics and Mass Media unit and explores the forms and impact of political communication. It will be organised around the themes of who communicates, whether that is the state, celebrities, media organisations, the message they communicate, and the effect this has on the receivers of the message. The module will address areas such as spin, globalisation, the role of the new media in order to explore the changing nature of political communication. 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
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
Sitcom This module explores key developments in TV sitcom from the 1950s to the present. We consider the status of the genre in television culture and broader debates associated with TV Studies. We also map the ways in which the genre responds to and reflects social and historical milieux and explore the impact of US imports on British sitcoms. There are several themed case studies such as realism, representations of the family, and issues of ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality. Separate screenings may include 'Steptoe and Son', 'Only Fools and Horses', 'Father Ted', 'I'm Alan Partridge', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'Roseanne' and 'Friends'. more...	FTVF3F65	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 and LCS-3T17. more...	LCS-3T11	30	Semester 1
Video Project (Autumn) AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1G450302, U1QW36301, U1TW76301, U1TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301 Students produce a short film or video (not more than 15 minutes long). Projects are usually undertaken in small groups. There is no set brief. Groups develop their own project proposal which is agreed with the tutor. Skills training sessions are provided in relation to the requirements of specific projects. Students record and monitor the development of the project by keeping a portfolio throughout the module. This records the development of the project both aesthetically and practically, and demonstrates production management skills. Additional technical and supervisory input is directed to the specific requirements of students and projects through regular tutorial contact. In addition to producing the portfolio and the project, students must also write a critical evaluation of the production process and the final project. more...	FTVF3P79	30	Semester 1
Video Project (Spring) AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1G450302, U1QW36301, U1TW76301, U1TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301 Students produce a short film or video (not more than 15 minutes long). Projects are usually undertaken in small groups. There is no set brief. Groups develop their own project proposal which is agreed with the tutor. Skills training sessions are provided in relation to the requirements of specific projects. Students record and monitor the development of the project by keeping a portfolio throughout the module. This records the development of the project both aesthetically and practically, and demonstrates production management skills. Additional technical and supervisory input is directed to the specific requirements of students and projects through regular tutorial contact. In addition to producing the portfolio and the project, students must also write a critical evaluation of the production process and the final project. more...	FTVF3P80	30	Semester 2
Women and British Cinema This module will focus on the representation of women in British cinema from the 1940s through to the present day. It will examine key genres such as comedy, horror, costume drama and the bio-pic, as well as larger thematic groupings such as `quality' British film and British social realism, in terms of their gender representations, and also consider claims for the existence of a British variant of the woman's picture or `chick flick': a new and innovative way of thinking about a national cinema which has often been characterised as masculine in its concerns. In addition, the module will pay attention to the contribution made to British cinema throughout its post-war history by female creative personnel, from directors like Muriel Box and Andrea Arnold to stars such as Diana Dors and Keira Knightley, as well as writers, costume designers and art directors. Offering an opportunity for the sustained study of gender issues in relation to cinema, and taking in films as historically and thematically diverse as, for example, 'Brief Encounter' (1945), 'Yield to the Night' (1956), 'Darling' (1964), 'The Vampire Lovers' (1970), 'Wish You Were Here' (1987), 'Bend it like Beckham' (2002) and 'Fish Tank' (2009), this module will trace the changing images of girls and women in post-war British cinema as they mediated wider social changes in gender identity. more...	FTVF3F49	30	Semester 1
Women, Islam and Media 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...	FTVF3F56	30	Semester 2

Option C Study (60 credits)

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

Name

Code

Credits

Period

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

Semester 2

You may also pick any of the modules that begin with:

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
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...	HISH3J04	30	Semester 2
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...	HISH3K01	30	Semester 1
Powerful Words: Education, Culture and Politics in the Middle Ages This module is a 20 credit coursework only version of HISH3K13: POWERFUL WORDS: EDUCATION, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES and is available to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH3K15	20	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...	HISH3K13	30	Semester 1
The Arts in Tudor and Stuart England, C 1520-1640 This module addresses some key issues in cultural history with a specific focus on art and the state; art and religion with an emphasis on the debate about the impact of the Reformation on the arts; portraiture; interior decoration; the 'great house' as an art form; the new form of the illustrated book as type of art writing masters and penmanship. The role of the art object as part of the gift economy (in diplomacy and in the maintenance of patronage networks) will be examined as will the emergence of social distinction through the creation of a 'cultural aristocracy'. Use will be made of the local collections and material in the great London collections. more...	HISH3F81	30	Semester 1
History Sources and Methods In this module students will acquire an advanced understanding of how to comprehend, contextualise and interpret a body of primary source materials within their Special Subject. Most History students will take HISH3G1Y as a co-requisite with their Special Subject. more...	HISH3G1Y	30	Year Period
Renaissance Italy This module looks at social, religious and gender norms, and the way in which the institutions of state and church sought to order the lives of men and women in Italy. Providing background knowledge on the period (c.1500-1650), the module focuses on: social, religious, and gender norms; informal community rules and rituals; broken marriages, infanticide, and sexual violence; poor and vagrants; public brothels and women 'in danger'; male and female religious in civic life; forms of religious conversion; customs and costumes; cross-dressing; images of ethnicity. more...	HISH3B63	30	Semester 1
History Sources and Methods In this module students will acquire an advanced understanding of how to comprehend, contextualise and interpret a body of primary source materials within their Special Subject. This 20 credit version of Sources and Methods is available only to part-time History students. more...	HISH3G2Y	20	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 stratetic 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...	HISH3F96	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...	HISH3F17	30	Semester 1
Renaissance Italy This module is a 20-credit coursework-only version of HISH3B63 ORDER AND DISORDER IN EARLY MODERN ITALY and is available only to non-HUM or Visiting students. more...	HISH3B65	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
Madness and Medicine This module is a 20-credit coursework-only version of HISH3F62 MADNESS AND MEDICINE and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH3F64	20	Semester 2
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...	HISH3F62	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...	HISH3G13	30	Semester 1
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...	HISH3K05	30	Semester 1
Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan World This module is a 20 credit coursework only version of HISH3K05 OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE PURITAN WORLD and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH3K07	20	Semester 1
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 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. 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 to the early 1960s. Other aspects will include Anglo-American relations (particularly in the Second World War), secrecy and internal control, imperial security and a consideration of popular and fictional interpretations of the intelligence service. more...	HISH3F97	30	Semester 1
Napoleonic Europe This module is a 20-credit coursework-only version of HISH3K01 NAPOLEONIC EUROPE and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH3K03	20	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. Each placement will last for six to eight weeks and will focus on a specific project relating to landscape history or archaeology. Placements must be undertaken between June and December, and will be followed up by a series of practical seminars in the spring semester. Students may arrange their own work placements but this must be approved in advance by the module organisers. Project based placements will be agreed in advance with the host organisations. Students will then have to `apply' for the placement of their choice, and will attend an informal interview with the relevant organisation before their choice of placement is confirmed. A list of provisional placements and projects will be available in Spring 2011. Please note that enrolment on this module will only be confirmed after a short interview with the module organisers. more...	HISH3H1Y	30	Year Period
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. more...	HISH3P4Y	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
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...	HISH3A61	30	Semester 1
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...	HISH3P6Y	20	Year Period
The Industrial Revolution This module is a 20-credit coursework-only version of HISH3E37 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION and is available only to non-HUM and Visiting students. more...	HISH3E39	20	Semester 1
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...	HISH3E37	30	Semester 1

LDCE3

The Condition of England Novel 1818-2000 This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Z09 THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND NOVEL: 1818-2000 and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Z03	20	Semester 1
Chaucer This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y05 CHAUCER and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y21	20	Semester 1
Words and Music This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X53 WORDS AND MUSIC and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X55	20	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 LITE2Z15 Modernism. more...	LDCE3Z60	30	Semester 2
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
Literature Dissertation: Pre-1789 (Aut) This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X13 LITERATURE DISSERTATION: PRE-1789 (AUT) and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X29	20	Semester 1
Lost Worlds: Nineteenth-Century Science Writing This module will take in a range of scientific literatures from across the nineteenth century, including Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology and Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, alongside scientific fairy tales, poetry by Tennyson, Swinburne, Rossetti, Constance Naden and May Kendall, and novels by George Eliot and Arthur Conan Doyle. The course will question the boundaries between literature and science in the nineteenth century, asking how the formal features, publishing contexts, and readerships of scientific texts shaped scientific thought and culture in the period, and how new ideas from the emergent sciences were communicated, reshaped, and contested in a variety of literary forms. Lectures will introduce students to historical context by displaying and discussing a wide variety of scientific spectacles, shows, and performances, from soirees and conversaziones to plays, panoramas and stunts, while seminars will focus on close textual analysis. The module will enable students to problematise the definition of `literature' in the nineteenth century, and to consider the active role of literature in constructing, imagining, and classifying the world ' or worlds ' outside the text. more...	LDCE3Z64	30	Semester 2
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 1789 (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...	LDCE3X16	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
Literature Dissertation: Pre-1789 (Spr) This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X16 LITERATURE DISSERTATION: PRE-1789 (SPR) and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X28	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 module 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 LITE3X18 LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (SPR) and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X30	20	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
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...	LDCE3Y44	30	Semester 2
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
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. Authors studied will include Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Alison Bechdel, Armistead Maupin, Charlotte Mendelson, and Sarah Waters, as well as young adult novels by David La Rochelle, Alex Sanchez, Nancy Garden, Julie Anne Peters, and David Levithan. Using queer theory will also allow us to analyse literature from the perspective of gender and sexuality, and authors looked at will include Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, 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. more...	LDCE3X58	30	Semester 2
The Gothic This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X41 THE GOTHIC and is available to Visiting / Exchange Students only. more...	LDCE3X51	20	Semester 1
Comparative Literature Dissertation This module is reserved for final-year students of Comparative Literature and consists of a dissertation on an approved literary or related subject, or optionally a translation project. For Q200 students the dissertation should be written in (one of) the Honours language(s) studied (i.e. French or Spanish) this is normally the language of the country where the compulsory year abroad has been spent. Students on the three year (Q201) programme may submit an approved translation project or a dissertation in English on a comparative subject. more...	LDCE3X07	30	Semester 1
Henry James: Questions of Art, Life and Theory This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Z42 HENRY JAMES: QUESTIONS OF ART, LIFE AND THEORY and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Z32	20	Semester 2
Poetry in Dark Times: Holderlin, Rilke, Celan Writing in (and against) the Romantic, Modernist and post-Holocaust eras respectively, these three poets test language (in this case German) to the very limits of its expressive possibilities, and thus present an equivalent challenge to some of the most gifted poet-translators of our day. This seminar module offers an opportunity, by means of close reading, to explore in detail selected works, to consider the position of the poet and the lyric voice in times of crisis and transition, and to locate them within the wider Western poetic tradition. All texts studied are readily available in a range of English translations. more...	LDCE3X37	30	Semester 1
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...	LDCE3Y69	30	Semester 1
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
Shakespeare and Literary Criticism This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y73 SHAKSSPEARE AND LITERARY CRITICISM and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y75	20	Semester 1
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
Virgil's Classic Epic This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y18 VIRGIL'S CLASSIC EPIC and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y32	20	Semester 2
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 is 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
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...	LDCE3Y66	30	Semester 2
Literature Dissertation: Post-1789 (Aut) This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X15 LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (AUT) and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X31	20	Semester 1
Revenge Tragedy: Ancient and Modern This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y66 REVENGE TRAGEDY: ANCIENT AND MODERN and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y68	20	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
Shakespeare: Shadow and Substance This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y36 SHAKESPEARE: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y40	20	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
Ulysses This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Z50 ULYSSES and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Z52	20	Semester 2
John Milton's Paradise Lost This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y70 JOHN MILTON'S PARADISE LOST and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y72	20	Semester 2
Literature Dissertation: Pre-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 up to 1789 (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...	LDCE3X13	30	Semester 1
The Literature of World War One This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Z10 The Literature of World War One and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Z34	20	Semester 2
Regency Women Writers This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X80 REGENCY WOMEN WRITERS and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X82	20	Semester 2
Poetry in Dark Times: Holderlin, Rilke, Celan This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3X37 POETRY IN DARK TIMES: HOLDERLIN, RILKE, CELAN and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3X39	20	Semester 1
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
Daniel Defoe This module will study the development of a capitalist world-view in the years 1690-1730 by critically examining the life, times and writing of Daniel Defoe as interventions in a fast-changing political context. The focus will be equally on the construction of new social institutions (the new political settlement, the Bank, Stock Market, the fiscal-military state, the companionate marriage, the coffee-house) as on Defoe's moral and political propaganda for them in verse and prose. These readings will enable better understanding of Defoe's novels and the contradictions they articulate, notably in relationship to property and the position of women. We will find time to consider periodical writing in this period, notably Swift's contributions to The Examiner , and Addison and Steele in The Spectator, and to engage with new ideas about women expressed by Locke and Astell, and the nascent theory of political economy expressed by Bernard de Mandeville. more...	LDCE3Y74	30	Semester 2
Medieval Arthurian Traditions This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y44 MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN TRADITIONS and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y46	20	Semester 2
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
Shakespeare and Literary Criticism Shakespeare and literary criticism are twins. The analysis of English Literature took shape as a distinct intellectual activity in the course of the eighteenth century; and at the same time Shakespeare ceased to be one old playwright among others, and was identified as the supreme literary genius of Britain and Europe. This was not a coincidence: rather, you could say, literary criticism came into existence in order to explain what was wonderful about Shakespeare, and Shakespeare became a genius in order to exemplify the beliefs articulated by literary criticism. The module takes advantage of this affinity to study both of them together. By reading a selection of the critics who have discussed Shakespeare over the last two hundred and fifty years, we will find out how differently his plays have been understood at different times, and what different agendas have been discovered in them or projected on to them. But at the same time, since Shakespeare criticism always tracks the development of criticism as such, we will be exploring the backgrounds of our own discipline, the language we speak as teachers and students of literature, and the assumptions we share about its value. The intention is, then, that the module will both enrich your understanding of Shakespeare and encourage you to reflect on the nature of your own education. more...	LDCE3Y73	30	Semester 1
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
Early English Drama This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Y69 EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA and is available to Visiting / Exchange students only. more...	LDCE3Y71	20	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
Poetry After Modernism This module is a 20-credit version of LITE3Z60 POETRY AFTER MODERNISM and is available to Visiting / Exchange Students only. more...	LDCE3Z62	20	Semester 2
Words and Music `Writing about music is like dancing about architecture'; or so the saying goes. On the contrary, words and music are intimately related, not only in those forms in which they meet head on ' opera and song, most obviously ' but also more fundamentally. It is in words that we make sense of what we hear, and via words that we pass on that sense, both of specific musical experiences and of music per se. And it is in words that we convey our sense of the sheer seductiveness of music, together with our ongoing frustration at its seeming elusiveness. Literary texts in particular offer evidence of a rich variety of responses to music, ranging from the deferential and star struck to the sceptical and resolutely tone deaf. This module will offer an opportunity to explore specific aspects of the relationship of words and music. To begin, the myth of Orpheus, perhaps the most influential story of the power of music, a story to which literature and music, both apart and together, have returned many times. To follow, we'll look at three specific areas of musico-literary interaction: song, the most potent alliance of words and music, an alliance which has given rise to a rich critical literature; specific literary texts in which music forms the object of attention (Beckett, Proust and Kafka, for example); and selected critical-theoretical texts that have sought to understand aspects of the relationship of words and music. Students will be encouraged to develop their own interests, especially as regards particular examples of, for example, poetry and song. Creative responses to the material will be encouraged and creative writing submissions allowed. more...	LDCE3X53	30	Semester 1
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
Daniel Defoe THIS MODULE IS A 20-CREDIT VERSION OF LDCE3Y74: DANIEL DEFOE AND IS AVAILABLE TO VISITING/EXCHANGE STUDENTS ONLY. more...	LDCE3Y76	20	Semester 2
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

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Film and Television Studies Courses

Film and Television Studies

BA Film and English Studies (QW36)

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

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