Course Description
At Nottingham, we go beyond a love of books. Here, you will study in the city that was home to Lord Byron, DH Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe.
Our students benefit from access to special collections and the expertise of academics based in the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture, the Institute for Name Studies, the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, and the Institute for Medieval Research.
Entry Requirements
2:1 (or international equivalent) in English language/literature or a related arts or humanities subject
Fees
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Student Destinations
The skills gained during this degree stand our graduates in good stead in areas from publishing to the heritage sector, and from marketing to academia.
You will also gain a range of transferable skills, including:
- collating information
- writing persuasively
- managing deadlines
- balancing creative and analytical thinking
Module Details
Core Modules
- Mastering the Arts: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research
- Arts in Society
- Dissertation
Optional Modules
English Language and Applied Linguistics modules: (20 credits each)
- Consciousness in Fiction
- Psychology of Language
- Second Language Acquisition
- English Vocabulary: Teaching and Learning
- Advanced Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
- Business and Organisational Communication
- Language, Gender and Sexuality
- Cognition and Literature
- Group Dynamics and Motivation in the Language Classroom
- Intercultural Communication
- Sociolinguistics of Work
- Research Methods: Corpus Linguistics
- Language Teaching: Speaking and Listening
- Narratology
Drama and Creative Writing modules: (20 credits each)
- Creative Writing Conventions and Techniques
- Writing Workshop: Fiction
- Writing Workshop: Poetry
- Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Screen
- Riotous Performance: Drama, Disruption and Protest
- Dramatic Discourse
- Learning to Publish: Contemporary Forms & Practices
- Learning to Read: Criticism for Creative Writers
- Practice and Practitioners
Literature:1500 – The Present modules: (20 credits each)
- Literature in Britain Since 1950
- Literary Histories
- Modernism and the Avant-Garde in Literature and Drama
- Place, Region, Empire
- Speculative Fictions
- Textualities: Defining, making and using text
- Poetry: Best words, Best Order
Medieval Language and Literature modules: (20 credits each)
- Reading Old Norse
- Reading Old English
- Research Methods in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies
- The History of the Book: 1200-1600
- Middle English Romance
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