STUDY

This is a 30 credit module.

This module is designed to equip you with the terminology and confidence for analysing language across a range of data sources. You will develop skills in language analysis that will be activated throughout their chosen degree programme, as well as in many professions. Relevant skills will be practiced and developed through instruction relating to the four core frameworks of theoretical linguistics (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), as well as elements of Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics.

This module builds on the knowledge and skills you've gained in earlier modules and continues the introductory British history strand at Level 4 moving the chronological focus towards the beginnings of modernity. It takes the self-imaginings, representations, and activities of Britons across the period 1603 to 1832 as its key themes and situates them within the wider European and world context to explore themes such as monarchy, war, revolution, the enlightenment, and globalisation.

This is a 30 credit module. 

This is a 30 credit module. 

This is a 30 credit module. 

You will build on your foundation in critical theory from your first year, examining a range of theoretical approaches to texts, including Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, feminism, postcolonial theory and postmodernism in greater detail. You will apply theory to literary texts and contemporary debates, developing multiple perspectives on a variety of topics such as language, reality, subjectivity, gender, race, and sexuality. 

This is a 15 credit optional module. 

This is a 15 credit optional module. 

This is a 15 credit optional module. 

This module provides an opportunity for you to explore, over a year, a chosen topic of your interest. Literature students will design and carry out an extensive or significant piece of independent research, examining an area of scholarship that they wish to pursue. Creative writing students will produce an original creative writing portfolio, whether a novel extract or collection of drama, short stories, or poetry. Linguistics students will undertake a project that synthesises novel data and scholarly literature to examine an original research question. All students will be assigned a specialist supervisor and meet regularly as a supportive learning group to consider common research issues and workshop their ideas.  

This is a 30 credit module. 

This is a 15 credit optional module. 

This is a 15 credit optional module. 

This module explores the history of the witch hunt in England, Scotland, continental Europe, and New England between 1450 and 1750, and its subsequent legacy. In each regional case study typical topics will include: the rise and decline of the hunt, the profile of the accused and accusers, the legal, social, religious, economic, political and cultural backdrops, the role of gender, age and rank, unique features and characteristics, and the persistence and evolution of witchcraft belief after the era of prosecution.

This module invites you to work with influential and contemporary scripts written for the stage and screen to support the production of their own short script. You will explore a selection of performance texts written for theatre, television and cinema in the twentieth century and up to the present day, engaging with crucial differences in forms of performance writing to understand the demands of each particular medium.