Course Structure

Year 1 - Autumn term:

• Research Methods - we will automatically allocate you to this so you do not need to apply
• Core module: 30 CATS - EN9A7 Drama and Performance Theory - core module- assessed by coursework - 6,000 word essay

Year 1 - Spring term:

• 1 x 30 CAT module, assessed by coursework - each assessed by coursework - 6,000 word essay

Year 2 - You will apply for your 2020/21 modules in August 2020 - 1 module to be taken each term as per year 1.

Spring/Summer terms:

• Choice of Dissertation:
• 16,000 word dissertation (worth 60 CATS)
• Practice as Research Dissertation (worth 60 CATS)
• Professional Practice Dissertation (worth 60 CATS)

From 2020/21 choose a module from the following list:

Term 1 modules:

• EN28 Poetics of Urban Modernism
• EN942 Fundamentals of World Literature
• EN986 Topics in American Poetry
• EN9A7 Drama and Performance Theory (CORE)
• EN9B5 World Literature and the Anthropocene
• EN9B8 Queer Theory & Praxis
• EN9C1 Critical Theory Today

Term 2 modules:

• EN913 Feminist Literary Theory
• EN930 Nineteenth-Century Gothic
• EN938 Postcolonial Theory
• EN963 Petrofiction: Studies in World Literature
• EN985 The Development of English Drama 1558-1659
• EN9C2: Literature and the Lifecourse: From Infancy to the End of Life
• EN9C7: Critical Theory, Culture, Resistance

Can take one 30 CATS module from outside of the department, including the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL).