BA (Hons) English Bachelor's degree at Loughborough University

This module will provide you with an outline of English literary history from the late medieval period to the modern day, introducing you to significant writers and genres and their place within a broad contextual framework. How are ideas of the literary canon formed and perpetuated, and what are the implications of such processes? You'll have the opportunity to engage in these debates while studying key literary works in their original contexts.

This module offers you an opportunity to explore a range of dramatic forms, modes, and theories. Focusing on primary materials covering a range of periods from the Renaissance to the present day, the module is designed to help you develop a critical awareness of how drama produces meaning on both the page and stage, with a focus on both text and performance. The module will also consider what is involved in analysing live performance, and may include a theatre trip; you will have the opportunity

Writers tell stories in many different forms and many different media. On this module you'll examine a wide range of forms and media, from period fiction to film and the graphic novel. In doing so, you'll discuss the features, functions and effects of different types of narrative. The assessment for this module offers you the choice to work creatively using what you've learned, or to focus on literary criticism. After this module, you'll have the skills to continue studying different types of na

This module aims to give you the necessary analytical skills to read poetry more closely and critically, in order to understand how it achieves its effects. As well as gaining knowledge of core metrical principles and awareness of their various effects and implications, you will develop an understanding of the principal kinds and forms of poetry in English from the Renaissance to the present day. Working in small groups for the workshops and seminars, you'll have a chance to study a range of poe

The module aims to introduce students to significant classic and contemporary theoretical approaches and key concepts used in the study of literature today and demonstrate how these can be used in interpreting different literary texts.

A creative title for a creative module. Here you'll be introduced to techniques for writing poetry and fiction, and be given lots of techniques to try out for yourself. The module is based on the assumption that everyone is starting out as a writer, so you don't have to have had any experience. You'll also learn how to give and receive feedback, meaning that you can develop your work and that of your fellow students. By the end of the module you'll be confident in writing your own material, usin

This module provides an opportunity to explore key concepts, approaches, and areas of interest in film studies through offering a critical introduction to the discipline. As well as considering key aspects of film form and style (setting, props, costume, lighting, actor performance, cinematography, editing, and sound and music), you will explore such topics as narrative, genre, the role of the director, star studies, and geographies of film consumption, through detailed study of a number of Amer

This module gives you the opportunity to engage with a wide range of African American cultural production (written, cinematic and musical) from 1840 to the present day and to explore the complex social and political questions raised by these primary materials, studying a variety of texts from nineteenth-century slave narratives to contemporary hip-hop lyrics.

One 10-credit module from a list supplied by the Language Centre, levels dependent on candidates' previous qualifications. Languages offered are: French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish.

On this module, you will be introduced to a range of Victorian texts, including poetry, novels, and short prose works, in order to assess the aesthetic, intellectual and social questions that informed Victorian writing. You will read Victorian literature in relation to the social and cultural history of the period, allowing you to explore ideas from the period in depth, considering such topics as the growth of industrialisation, scientific developments, the beginnings of the women's movement, mo

This module focuses on the theme of love in the lives of people from the Stuart era (1603-1714), and the importance of this period for the development of English literature. You'll learn how 'love' of various kinds – marital, erotic, filial, and patriotic – holds as much social and cultural relevance as it does personal significance, which is illustrated through the diversity of representations in tragic, sceptical, pragmatic, comedic, and romantic narratives, including plays, poems, and pioneer

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed a seismic shift in understandings of gender and sexuality. From the criminal trials and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895, to the banning of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928, LGBTQ+ individuals and same-sex desires became visible as never before. This module introduces you to the diversity of queer literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. You will have an opportunity to consider h

From the animals in Franz Kafka's short stories to BoJack Horseman, from nature documentaries to viral clips of cats and dogs online, contemporary culture is saturated with narratives and representations of non-human animals. On this module, you'll be introduced to new ways of critically interrogating these narratives and representations, drawn from a variety of media, analysing them in relation to recent ethical, political, cultural, and philosophical debates concerning our lives with (and even

What do you know? What are skills? Where are they going to take you? This module will help you to answer those questions by building on transferrable skills and encouraging you to reflect on your learning. In addition, you'll learn about the UK job market, and how to negotiate a range of recruitment tasks including decoding job specifications, writing an application, interviews, psychometric tests and the use of AI. Combine these with your degree and graduate with confidence.

This module introduces students to debates in the social, political and cultural history of Victorian Britain, with particular emphases on histories of childhood, democratisation, poverty, sex and sexuality, crime and deviance, religion, and race. The course also explores representations of the Victorians since 1901, addressing key historiographical questions about why and how the reputation of the period and its people has undergone constant revision.

This module is an introduction to the diversity of literary and artistic movements, ideas, and concepts grouped under the term 'Modernism'. On the module, you will learn how twentieth-century writers developed new methods of responding to an increasingly mechanised and urban world, while also pioneering new ways of writing about the self. The module will show how modernists such as T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce reacted against many Victorian conventions to produce challenging and r

This module is very diverse, in that it covers a range of forms (including fiction, poetry and drama), in a range of genres (including verbatim, crime and weird) from a range of writers, including work in translation. Whatever your interests, you'll discover writing that is new to you. What all these texts have in common is their concern with global concerns about identity, race, place, and belonging that undermine national literary and cultural identities as well as colonising cultural centres.

This module introduces influential and acclaimed films from the 20th and 21st-century and explores how they earned their reputation by analysing their interface with, and impact on, wider social, political and historical developments in histories of media.

If you are fascinated by the gothic, delighted by the strange and tempted by the unexplained, then this module will be up your – dark, shadowy – street. The Weird as a genre is over a century old, but is still the chosen form for many contemporary writers. This module will introduce you to a range of examples, dealing in different types of the Weird.