BA (Hons) English Literature Bachelor's degree at Huddersfield

Critical thinking enables us to go beyond the surface of information, using analytical skills to dissect, question, and evaluate ideas with a detective's curiosity and a scientist's precision. The module will hone your intellectual skills in reasoning and close analysis, improve your ability to present arguments effectively, reflect on your work, and equip you to plan and conduct an independent research project.

This module is your gateway into the world of English literature - from epic adventures and timeless tragedies to modern classics. You'll explore the major genres that have defined Western literature, and see how writers over time have shaped and broken its rules. Along the way, you'll pick up the key ideas, tools and skills that will guide you through studying literature on your degree, helping you read deeper, think sharper, and write with confidence.

This module will help you master the craft of academic writing and professional communication, enabling you to gain a competitive career advantage. You will learn to write clearly and persuasively across diverse platforms, focusing on real-world impact. The module balances the demands of academic writing, perfecting the skills of building logical, evidence-based arguments and evaluating the provenance of source material, with practical opportunities to develop a specialised portfolio in creative w

This module will provide you with an understanding the history of the English from the early medieval period, combining the description and analysis of language with close reading of texts in their historical, material and literary context. There will be a focus on poetry and prose from different periods of early English, including religious and political texts. Authors like Aelfric of Eynsham, Chaucer, Mallory, Julian of Norwich, Tyndale, and Marlowe may be studied, in order to track changes in

This module looks at sources and approaches to the study of the medieval and early modern past - taken broadly to cover the period 1300-1800. This is a survey module deliberately covering a long chronological span to enable students to look at key aspects of the period. It will focus on England/Britain in relation to the wider world e.g. Politics in relation to Monarchy and government; pandemics and the impact of social change brought about by the Black Death as a Europe-wide pandemic; the impac

The module combines a chronological and thematic approach to introduce you to the major political, social, economic and cultural developments affecting British society in the 20th century. It places Britain into a global perspective, examining the international and imperial connections which shaped Britain's interactions with the world. Through this you will examine how these global interactions helped shape a sense of the British self.

The module introduces you to a range of video formats and technologies: mobile, online, television and video. You will be provided with the essential recording and editing skills necessary to produce a video output, and to understand the language and concepts required to critically evaluate video content. You will be also be introduced to legal and regulatory frameworks surrounding the production of video content.

The module introduces you to a range of audio formats and technologies: mobile, online, radio and podcast. You will be provided with the essential recording, editing and studio skills necessary to produce an audio output. You will be introduced to legal and regulatory frameworks surrounding the production of audio content and the opportunity to understand the language and concepts required to critically evaluate audio content.

This module provides the knowledge for you to gain an understanding of the role of technology in shaping and being shaped by mediated communication, with a particular focus on digital media technologies. The module combines the critical analysis of media technologies with practical skills to use those technologies in the journalism, media and creative industries.

This module introduces you to essential ideas about the media's roles in societies, along with the rights and responsibilities of those who create media content. Learners will get to grips with the key media ethics, law and policy knowledge needed for a career in this vast and dynamic industry. It will help you understand the structures in which media workers and organisations operate, and the ways in which specific ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks impact the content created. You will le

This module will develop your skills in investigating archival records and help you to understand and critically analyse how they are used in a range of different sites and formats that include academic scholarship, museums, literature, literary heritage, reportage, digital media and online. The module will be based around materials held in Heritage Quay, the University Archive, and you will have a hands-on introduction to how archives are collected, catalogued and utilised in public-facing envi

This module develops the research skills you acquired at Foundation level, giving you the skills and confidence required to complete a major piece of independent research in your final year of your degree. You will learn from expert researchers and archive/heritage professionals. We will discover together how research uses different methods and approaches to answer specific research questions, engaging in scholarly debate to further knowledge. We'll learn about the ways in which we build on exis

This module focuses on the scope of variety within English, both as it is used in the British Isles and around the world at the current time. You will gain an awareness of the different ways variation exists within a language across different language levels, and of the ways linguistic variation maps onto and relates to social, geographical, and individual differences between language users. You will also explore how historical realities like industrialization, colonialism, and globalization hav

The nineteenth century was the period in which the novel was the dominant literary form, in the wake of the heyday of Romantic poetry and before the advent of cinema. In this module we will study and analyse a selection of novels that represent some of the most significant developments in the genre during the Victorian age. We will explore the ways in which the Victorian novel reflected the most important issues of the day, from industrialisation and political reform to women's rights and class

This module takes a tour through modern and contemporary American poetry. We'll explore history, politics, identity, and competing ideas of what is means to be 'American', by studying the work of 10 extraordinary poets. We'll be exploring American poetry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, looking at significant poetic movements and sociopolitical contexts. The module explores a range of poets which may include Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Claudia Rankine, and Robert Lowell.

No English degree would be complete without the opportunity to study the greatest writer in the language – Shakespeare. This module is your chance to do just that, both by situating Shakespeare's plays in relation to their historical and cultural backgrounds, and by considering their rejuvenation in recent film and stage productions. For a greater understanding of Renaissance drama, the module will also compare Shakespeare's work to some of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Jonson, or Webster

This module gives you the chance to study some of the most exciting and experimental novels ever written. Beginning at the start of the twentieth century, with ground breaking works of modernist fiction by the likes of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, you will study innovative new developments in form, style, and technique, as well as the historical context behind these transformative texts. The module then introduces you to the postmodernist experimentation of the later twentieth century. Togeth

Gothic emerged as the dark twin of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century and has remained perennially popular ever since. Gothic novels, ghost stories and horror films offer scintillating and often scandalous popular entertainment, while counterbalancing the values of modernity and order celebrated in real

You will be expected either to complete a graduate or professional level work placement – or, as an alternative an enterprise or citizenship project with a tangible end product (e.g. feasibility study for turning hobby/idea into a personal business or setting up campaign group/developing volunteering/charity initiative) plus associated documentation – plus a self-reflective evaluation of the process. In preparation for this you will undertake career planning and placement research, supported by