English at Keele

ENGLISH PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

YEAR ONE
SEMESTER 1
(15 Weeks)
SEMESTER 2
(13 Weeks)
English: Programme Structure 2009/10
This at-a-glance table shows you how your study of English at Keele works. In Year 1, everyone takes two Core Modules and two Electives. In Year Two, you choose two of four Core Modules, and two Electives. In Year 3, you choose from a range of Special Subjects and can opt to work on a Dissertation topic.
Core Module:
Reading Literature
Core Module:
Becoming a Critic
Electives:
Telling Tales
or
Reading Film
or
Poetry Through Practice
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Electives:
Playing Parts
or
Approaches to Film
or
Fiction Through Practice
Core Electives:
Romanticism
or
Renaissance: 1603-33
Core Electives:
Victorian Performances
or
Post-War British Fiction
Electives:
Elizabeth I
or
Gothic Fictions
or
Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose
or
French Cinema
Electives:
20th Century Novels into Films
or
Literature and the Civil War
or
Satire
or
Lyrics and Music
Special Subjects 1:

e.g.

Creative and Critical Writing
History, Mourning and Melancholia
The Long Weekend
Modern Poetry
Popular Fiction & Cultural Theory
20th Century Humour
Whither Russia?
Special Subjects 2:

e.g.

Dickens, Collins & Detection
Journalism and Literature
Mental Fight
Shakespeare Problem Plays and Late Plays
Ulysees
The Canadian Metropolis
OR Independent Study Project (Dissertation) Special Subjects
lasting two semesters:

Postmodernist Fiction and Literary Theory
Shakespeare on Film
Decadence, Eccentricity and Nonsense: Journeys to the Edge
of Victorian Literature
YEAR TWO
SEMESTER 1
(15 Weeks)
SEMESTER 2
(13 Weeks)
YEAR THREE
SEMESTER 1
(15 Weeks)
SEMESTER 2
(13 Weeks)