BA (Hons) English Bachelor's degree at Goldsmiths, University of London

This module will introduce you to a wide range of works from the literary canon, from ancient Greek texts in translation to the contemporary, covering the major genres, and embodying significant interventions or influences in literary history. You'll focus on reading primary texts voraciously and discovering - or rediscovering - diverse writers and cultures so that you can make informed choices from more specialized modules later in your degree. Not being limited to a period, genre or single app

This module will introduce you to essential concepts in modern literary study, enabling you to become a more observant, perceptive, and analytical reader. You'll explore the history and nature of literary studies and contemporary critical debates. You'll learn a vocabulary in which to discuss literary language, ideas of literary convention and genre, poetic rhythm and form, and the nature of narrative voice and narrative structures.

This course introduces you to the pleasures and possibilities of a wide range of literary genres, including the novel, short story, poetry, life writing, creative non-fiction, speculative fiction, the graphic novel, drama, screenwriting, film, performance, and more. You'll explore works that exemplify the defining features of particular genres, as well as texts that disrupt or challenge those conventions. Through close reading and a focus on technical craft, you will learn to question how langua

In this module you will develop your practical understanding of, and critical perspective on, the ways in which creative work is commercially produced, disseminated and 'consumed'. You will gain an overview of the contemporary creative industries' foundational concepts, occupational roles, stakeholders, organizations, business practices and personalities. As well as studying dominant modes of industrial production and consumption, you will consider practices through which creators and their supp

The module aims to explore the topic of critical writing generally and in discipline-specific contexts so you can continually develop your skills by applying them to your ongoing critical and creative work. You will learn critical writing as a skill that helps you to develop your research and creative practice alongside the completion of academic work. You will learn to critical analyse and evaluate existing texts and your own work through a diversity of critical perspectives.

Spanning the medieval to early modern periods, Reading the Past begins with an overview which forges links between diverse literary traditions. As the module progresses, you can choose to focus on the Medieval or the Early Modern period. The content encompasses drama, epic, devotional literature, women's writing, satire and the sonnet. Writers covered include Margery Kemp, Christopher Marlowe, Malory, Shakespeare, Amelia Lanyer, Jonson, the Gawain poet, Sterne and Bede.

Within this module, you will choose and study from a selection of specialist topics in literary studies. Indicative topics include American Gothic; Aesthetics; Homer and Contemporary Literature; Shakespeare(s): Then and Now; Language and Society; and Post-1945 Poetry.

Students who select this module are required to source a placement and undertake 10 days of unpaid work at a host institution. You will have the opportunity to relate your degree subject to real-life situations, develop a range of transferable skills and gain sector-specific experience, thereby enhancing your employment prospects. Guidance and support in sourcing the placement is provided by the Careers Service. The work is normally carried out over 1 day per week, but it can be more pending the

Our academic Schools are developing exciting elective ideas to allow you to broaden your education, either to develop vocationally orientated experiences or to learn more about contemporary society, culture and politics. You'll be able to choose safe in the knowledge that these modules have been designed for non-subject specialists and to bring students from different disciplines together. For example, you may want to take introductions to areas such as Law, Education, the digital industries, th

This is a module about literature that exists outside the European canon. You will study books and films from a diverse range of cultures and c