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BA English Literature with a Foundation Year (LITU99)     FT

2019 - 2020

For students whose initial registration is for the 2019-20 session or later
 
 

Year 1


units (40 credits)
1A
A student will take

Full academic year
LIT120  Renaissance to Revolution ACAD YR 40 credits

units (80 credits)
1B
A student will take 80 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ELL118  Early Englishes AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT113  Foundations in Literary Study: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT117  Contemporary Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT180  Studying Theatre: A History of Dramatic Texts in Performance AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH102  Practical Stylistics SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL114  History of English SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL117  Celtic Languages and Literatures: an Introduction SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT111  Introduction to Creative Writing SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT114  Shakespeare SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT181  Introduction to Cinema SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F4 units to the value of 80 credits.

Year 2


The regulations for this Level of study are subject to change.  Students should contact the School directly for further details.  


units (80 credits)
2A
A student will take

Semester 1
LIT204  Criticism and Literary Theory AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT234  Renaissance Literature AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT2000  Genre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT207  Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature SPR SEM 20 credits

units (40 credits)
2B
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH202  The History of Persuasion AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT226  The Novella and the Uncanny AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT233  Road Journeys in American Culture: 1930-2000 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT257  Shakespeare on Film AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT272  Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT273  Creative Writing Prose Fiction 2 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT276  New Realisms: Contemporary British Cinema AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT277  Chaucer AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH207  Writing the Real SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH223  Radical Texts: transforming performance, 1920s to the present SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL225  Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT219  Creative Writing Poetry 2 SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT224  Representing the Holocaust SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT248  Irish Fiction SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT254  Christopher Marlowe SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT255  John Donne SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT274  The Postcolonial Bildungsroman SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT275  Literature, Ecology, Capital SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F5 units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 3


The regulations for this Level of study are subject to change.  Students should contact the School directly for further details.  


units (80 credits)
3A
A student will take

Semester 1
LIT3100  Romantic and Victorian Poetry AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3101  Romantic and Victorian Prose AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT302  Modern Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT303  Contemporary Literature SPR SEM 20 credits

units (40 credits)
3B
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT3000  America and the Avant-Garde, 1950's-1990's AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3015  Writing Fiction 3 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3023  Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3048  Women Playwrights on the International Stage: 1880s-1930s AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT305  Afro-American Literature 1: Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3056  Byron and Shelley AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3060  War on Screen AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3063  Creative Writing Poetry 3 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3065  The Brontës AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
ELL360  Historical Pragmatics SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3042  Re-imagining Shakespeare SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3050  No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Module: Animals in Film SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3053  Project Module SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3057  Fin de siècle Gothic SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3061  Sex and Decadence in Restoration Theatre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3066  Identity/ Crisis: Trauma, Narrative, Self SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT386  Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F6 units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 0


units (100 credits)
0A
A student will take

Semester 1
ACE0351  Introduction to the Humanities AUT SEM 20 credits

Full academic year
ACE0340  Academic Literacy and Communication Skills ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0345  Maths and Statistics ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0348  Foundations of English ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0349L  Extended Project (EGH) ACAD YR 20 credits

units (20 credits)
0B
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ACE0354  Foundations of Biology (Core) AUT SEM 10 credits
ACE0357  Foundations of Chemistry (Core) AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
ACE0355  Foundations of Biology (Human) SPR SEM 10 credits
ACE0356  Foundations of Biology (Organisms & Environment) SPR SEM 10 credits
ACE0358  Foundations of Chemistry (Further) SPR SEM 10 credits

Full academic year
ACE0343  Foundations of Psychology ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0344  Foundations of Sociology ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0346  Foundations of History ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0347  Foundations of Geography ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0353  Foundations of Time and Humanity ACAD YR 20 credits
MUS001  Foundations of Music ACAD YR 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F4 Level ACE or MLTC Languages for All units to the value of 20 credits.

0C

Before proceeding to Level 1, a student will attain both 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of 60.0 or above; a student with 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of between 57.0 and 59.9 may be permitted to proceed at the discretion of the Board of Examiners and the cognate department.

 
 
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Please note that the regulations displayed on this page reflect provision in 2019/20 and may not reflect study undertaken in other academic sessions. To see regulations that applied in another academic session, please return to the Programme Regulations Finder home screen and select the appropriate session.