Department of English units in 2039/40

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Level QCA-3
Level C/4
Level I/5
Level H/6
Level M/7
Level D/8
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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Teaching Block
African American Literature ENGL20111 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
American Literature ENGL20124 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
American Literature: 1945 to Present ENGL29007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
American Revolutions ENGL30108 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
American Short Stories ENGL20138 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Approaches to Poetry ENGL10026 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Approaches to Poetry ENGL10039 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Arthurian Literature ENGL20060 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Arthurian Literature ENGLM0079 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Birth, Death, and Other Beginnings: Literature and the Life Course ENGL30151 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Black British Literature ENGL20041 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Caribbean Literature ENGL30148 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics ENGL30110 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Charles Dickens ENGL39020 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Chaucer and Chaucerians ENGL20061 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Communities, Education and Ways of Knowing ENGL20118 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Community Engagement: Theory into Practice ENGL10059 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-4
Contemporary Literature ENGLM0038 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Contemporary Literature, Social Change and Movements ENGL30138 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Creative Dissertation ENGLM0077 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Creative Writing Dissertation ENGL30126 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Creative Writing Workshop ENGLM0092 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World ENGL20113 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Creative Writing: Poetry ENGL20051 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Critical Issues ENGL10017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Critical Issues ENGL20100 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Critical Issues in Contemporary Publishing ENGLM0076 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Dangerous Books ENGL20023 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Dissertation ENGL39010 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation ENGLM0006 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation ENGL30207 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation ENGL30112 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation (English) ENGL39024 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation for English/Classical Studies ENGL39021 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Drinking in the words: The pleasures and pains of alcohol in British fiction and culture ENGL20127 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Early Modern Women Writers ENGL20139 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
English Literature and Community Engagement Personal Option Unit ENGL30139 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1,TB-2,TB-4
English Literature and Community Engagement Personal Option Unit ENGL20125 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1,TB-2,TB-4
Hero or traitor? Outlaws in Literature ENGL30069 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas ENGL30145 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
I Spy: Literature and Surveillance ENGL20140 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Illness Narratives ENGL30089 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Interrelation of Culture Between Britain, Africa and the Caribbean ENGL30137 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Introduction to Literary Research ENGLM3029 40 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Large, Loose, Baggy Monsters: Victorian Fiction and Novel Form ENGL20128 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation ENGL30142 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Literature 1150-1550 ENGL10042 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Literature 1550-1740 ENGL10043 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Literature 1740-1900 ENGL20063 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Literature 1900-present ENGL20064 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Literature 1940-1970: Writing After War, After Modernism ENGLM0035 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Literature and Medicine ENGL39011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present ENGL20129 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives ENGLM0066 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Literature and the Politics of Gender ENGL20120 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Literature's Children ENGL39015 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Literatures of Decolonisation ENGL30147 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
MACW Workshop 1 ENGLM0089 40 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
MACW Workshop 2 ENGLM0090 40 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Modernism and the Movies ENGL30128 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Modernism, Experimentation and Form ENGLM0039 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction ENGL30115 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Old English Language and Literature ENGLM0080 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Period Unit 1 - 1150-1550 ENGL20117 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Period Unit 2 (1550-1780) ENGL20134 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Period Unit 3 (1780 - 1900) ENGL30144 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Period Unit: 1900 - Present ENGL30136 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Poetry in the World ENGL20141 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Reading English Literature ENGL10066 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Reading Identities ENGL10062 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Reimagining Shakespeare ENGLM0085 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Revenge Tragedy ENGL29008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Riddles, Puzzles, Enigmas ENGL30152 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Romantic Poetry and Poetics ENGLM3009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Shakespeare ENGL20068 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism ENGL39027 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Special Author Study ENGL30023 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Texts in a Global Context ENGL10052 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Age of Beowulf ENGL20144 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Gothic ENGLM0040 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Radical Gothic ENGL20136 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Short Story ENGL10061 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Transformations ENGL10046 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Understanding Critical Theory and Thought ENGL10056 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Utopian Literature ENGL20058 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace ENGL30117 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Victorian Literature and Place ENGLM0034 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Victorian Materialities ENGL30079 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Women on the Verge: Gender and Experimentation in the 20th/21st Century ENGL30149 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Writing Nature: Literature, Landscape, Environment ENGL20142 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Writing Your World: Literature, Creative Writing and Community ENGL20121 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Writing for Art ENGL39019 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Writing in the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Uranium ENGLM0067 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present ENGL30124 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography ENGL30107 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2