Course Structure

Year 1

Autumn term:

• Research Methods - we will automatically allocate you to this so you do not need to apply
• 1 x 30 CAT modules, assessed by coursework - 6,000 word essay

•  Spring term:

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

Year 2 (You will apply for your 2021/22 modules in September 2021.)

Autumn term:

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

 Spring term:

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

 Spring/Summer terms:

• 60 CATS - 16,000 word dissertation – EN956 - we will automatically allocate you to this, so you do not need to apply

Core Module - Any Critical Theory module

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
• 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).