BA (Hons) English with Foundation Bachelor's degree at the University of Plymouth

Introduces students to the core academic and organisational skills required to succeed at university. Through skill development sessions, students will practice and apply essential academic skills in the context of their field of study, building confidence and independence as they transition to university-level work.

Enables students to undertake an individual project on a topic of interest within their field. With supervision and support, they will define, plan and develop the project, gaining experience in designing research questions and identifying sources, methods, and literature.

Explores how different Humanities disciplines engage with and interpret the past. Using a range of historical and literary sources, students examine how concepts such as time, narrative, and perspective shape our understanding of past worlds.

Explores key texts and voices that have shaped contemporary Humanities thinking. It examines how literature, art, film, media, memory and heritage inform historical understanding and creative expression.

Provides an important grounding for new students studying English and Creative Writing. Based around some of the earliest written texts that underpin Western literature, the module engages with a number of issues to enable students to gain an understanding of the historical development of literature and the ways in which texts relate to each other over the centuries.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Introduces students to the key concepts and issues in creative writing through the practise of workshops. We will read classic contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction including autobiography, travel writing, poetry sequences, essays and reportage. We will produce our own works, and critically evaluate and contextualise them.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Examines how and why modern and contemporary authors have rewritten or reworked influential literary texts of the past. Students will engage with a range of different literary forms, including fiction, poetry, drama and, where appropriate, film.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Introduces some key critical theories relevant to the study of English literature. It will familiarise students with a range of theoretical perspectives and enable them to develop an understanding of different ways of reading literature, and its wider contexts.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Introduces students to writing digitally for, most notably, the Web, and its various platforms (from blogs to websites to Twitter etc). Students are invited to explore and expand ideas around authorship and audience and the writing (or images) that connects them as 'content', in its myriad of possible forms and formats.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Considers 'modern' ways of writing, thinking, trading, seeing, and relating to others in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The literature of this period first explores ideas central to our own time and place and is crucial both to understanding literary history and to understanding ourselves.

Prepares students in the History, Art History, ECW, and PIR cluster for Level 6 dissertation research. Lectures and workshops will explore key approaches to sources, and practical and theoretical aspects to research. Students will complete an independent research project.

Looks at eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels to trace the variety and scope of literary contributions to the Gothic. It begins by discussing the origins of the Gothic novel, then moves to the heyday of the genre in the revolutionary 1790s, on to authors writing in the early and mid-nineteenth century, through to the decadence of the 1890s.

Traces the rich diversity of literary texts that grew from a period of radical and revolutionary change from the 1770 to 1900. Engaging with literary texts from the Romantic and Victorian period, the module introduces you to literary texts and radical ideas about the self and society.

Explores the evolution of literary form and cultural expression from the early twentieth-century period of modernist experimentation to the contemporary moment. Examines how writers have responded to shifting historical, social, technological and environmental contexts.

For students in the School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences who are interested in undertaking an optional placement in the third year of their programme. Supports students in their search, application, and preparation for the placement.

In the context of this module, Professional Writing refers to commercial content for a variety of media outlets including advertising and marketing, as well as other 'businesses' which students have imagined and created themselves. Students will experiment with creative formats such as posters, reviews, reports, 'copy', interviews, the op-ed (opinion-editorial).

Assessment: 100% Coursework

Explores SF writing since 1960, with a particular focus on the hybridity of the field and the ways in which it intersects with fantasy writing, to explore a range of political issues in the contemporary world.