English Undergraduate Subject Brochure 2019 Cornwall and Exeter Campuses Contents

ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECT BROCHURE 2019 CORNWALL AND EXETER CAMPUSES CONTENTS

Welcome 1 English in Cornwall 2 Modules in Cornwall 4 Learning and teaching in Cornwall 12 English in Exeter 14 Modules in Exeter 18 Learning and teaching in Exeter 28 Your successful career 30 Key information at a glance 32

Studying English Literature and History at the Penryn Campus is an enriching experience! The plethora of modules available provides a worldly understanding of both literature and history pushing you to question, theorise and develop your own arguments. Our regular one-to- one office hours and tutorials bridge the gap between lecturer and student, creating a bond where you really get know the experts in your field. Eva, studying BA English and History (Penryn)

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4th in the UK for research power in English1 Participate in events involving internationally acclaimed authors and filmmakers Opportunities to study abroad at a range of partner institutions in Europe, the USA, Canada and elsewhere

As one of the leading English departments We are a substantial department, with staff in the UK we cover the whole span of the based at the Streatham Campus in Exeter, discipline; from the Medieval period to and at the Penryn Campus near Falmouth postcolonial and global literatures, as well as in Cornwall. You will find enthusiastic, digital humanities, with additional strengths research-active staff at both campuses, who in film studies and creative writing. are leaders in their field and are committed to sharing their expertise with you through Our curriculum gives you the choice and their teaching. For details of our staff flexibility to develop your literary interests. research interests, visit our website at Explore the work of great writers, including www.exeter.ac.uk/english/research Austen, Walcott, Brontë, Joyce, Shakespeare, Woolf and Wordsworth, and specialise as you progress, by period, genre or theme. The course has been everything We offer Single Honours programmes based I expected it to be – and more. The at either Penryn in Cornwall or Streatham in Exeter. We also offer Combined Honours modules have gradually gathered speed programmes: combining the study of and the knowledge and confidence I Literature with Film Studies, Drama, Classical Studies, Art History & Visual gained in my first two years has finally led Culture or a Modern Language at Streatham; me to make an informed choice in my or with History at our Penryn Campus. area of study for my final year. However, Throughout your studies, you will learn to what I needed most from this course was analyse the literatures of different cultures and periods and to interpret this material a department that would provide me with within wider contexts of cultural and the support and confidence to succeed. intellectual history. Our committed and I have found that here with the exceptional passionate staff will help you to develop your ability to read perceptively and critically tutors of the Penryn English department, and to foster your capacity for creative who could not be more generous, kind, and original thought. You will develop proficiency in research and analysis, an supportive or encouraging with their time ability to construct coherent, substantiated and knowledge. arguments and a capacity to propose your own ideas and theories. Mia, studying BA English (Penryn) www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english

1 Research Excellence Framework 2014 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4* or 3*. 2 ENGLISH HOW YOUR DEGREE IN CORNWALL IS STRUCTURED Programmes are divided into compulsory and optional modules, giving you the English at Penryn is founded on exceptional student flexibility to structure your degree according experience. We offer bespoke, research-driven to your specific interests. Individual modules are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time programmes in a unique environment: friendly, undergraduates need to take 120 credits in vibrant and collegiate. each year. Within English, in addition to the compulsory modules, you can choose from an The department’s building on our state-of-the-art eco-campus is extensive range of options, some examples of a place where lecturers and students, from the disciplines of both which are shown within this brochure. English and History, all work side-by-side, creating a distinctive and intimate sense of community. For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/ On our English programmes, you will explore the work of ug/english some of the giants of English literature, as well as discovering more unusual works from the past and engaging literary and SINGLE HONOURS cultural works from the contemporary moment. Through our carefully designed degree structure, which balances both BA English (CORNWALL) core and optional modules, we will introduce you to the full range of critical, creative and intellectual approaches Q301 3 yrs to literature: from the mechanics of how a poem works, with Study Abroad Q314 4 yrs to the social and ethical contexts of Dickens; from ideas with Employment Experience Q315 4 yrs of the body in Shakespeare, to how contemporary novels with Employment Experience Abroad interrogate globalisation. Q316 4 yrs ABB-BBB | IB: 32-30 | BTEC: DDM Your lecturers will be world-class researchers who Ì Required subjects: GCE AL English Literature Ì are experts in their respective fields. This expertise grade B; IB English HL5. influences the innovative ways in which you will be taught and the content of modules alike: particularly  in your final year, when you will have the skills to Through a variety of approaches, both pursue with confidence your own research interests, precise and imaginative, you will gain an in both optional modules and a dissertation. understanding of the principal genres and range of literatures in English, as well as During your time at Penryn, you will develop into knowledge of their cultural and critical an articulate, analytical and above all independent contexts thinker, well-equipped for a range of graduate  Develop either a classic English literature careers or postgraduate study – as well as taking degree or pursue modules which with you, of course, a deep knowledge and love crossover with History, Heritage Studies, of literature. and Environmental issues  The programme is designed to equip you with skills sought after by employers in the public and private sector, or develop your research and communication skills for further study in the Humanities  Study a broad and stimulating range of literature  Participate in a departmentally-subsidised p field trip to Rome and Florence

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3 CORNWALL 4 KEY C = Compulsory  C*== Optional MODULES IN CORNWALL Choose from a selection of compulsory modules

Please note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year. The modules detailed below are just examples of those offered recently and does not include a full list of optional modules.

For up-to-date details of all our 2019 programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english

For optional Combined Honours modules please visit the relevant 2019 programme page www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses-by-subject

Year 1 Modules Final Year Modules

Module Name English English and English and History Module Name English History Literature and the History of Ideas C C Dissertation C* C* Research Skills: From the Archive to Digital Humanities C C Creative Writing Dissertation¿ C* C* The Craft of Writing C C Tolkien: Scholar, Critic, Writer   Shakespeare Revisited C  Short Fiction   Approaches to Poetry C  Contemporary Literature   Approaches to Fiction and Narrative C  Writing Ireland, 1800 to the Present   Approaches to Drama and Performance C  The Development of British Children’s Literature   Feeling Bodies: Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Foundations in European History C   Culture, 1500-1700 21st Century Literature and the Global City   Year 2 Modules Extreme States: From Hysteria to Desire   Module Name English English and History Literature, Place, Encounter (Field Course)  Reason and Passion: Literature of the Long 18th Century C C* Revenge   Romantics and Victorians: Literature in the Industrial Age C C* Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature   Inventing the Early Modern: Literary Cultures, 1550-1700 C C* Decadence and the Birth of Modernism   From Modernism to the Contemporary C C* Witchcraft and Magic in Literature   Liberty, Slavery, Tyranny: Literature and Politics in the   Romantic Age The Human Animal in Early Modern Literature   Sex, Money, and Crime: Fiction in the 18th Century   The Supernatural in Early Modern Literature   Transatlantic Avant-Gardes, 1820-1900   Culture and Anarchy in Victorian Britain   Global Modernisms   Literature and Conflict, 1900-present   Finding a Voice: Creative Writing   Encounters with the Unknown in Early Modern Literature   Literature and the Environment   Literature and the Past   Perspectives on Sources: Independent Study Project in the  C Humanities

¿ Combined Honour students can opt to take the Creative Writing Dissertation if they have studied creative writing during their degree. If they have not, we will review the student's work to advise if the module is suitable. Humanities to Digital From theArchive Research Skills: of Writing The Craft ofIdeas History andthe Literature YEAR 1 in subsequentyears ofyour degree. proposal, topursueoramend you choose which can module you beabletoproduce will aresearch project to research intheHumanities. Bytheendof tasks aswell asdiscussions basedon topicsrelevant Electronic Library. 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Culture and This module focuses of the relationship between From Modernism This module will provide you with a survey of Anarchy in Victorian writers and their rapidly changing to the literatures in English, from 1900 to the present, Victorian Britain society. It addresses their responses to issues that Contemporary reading its focal texts in dialogue with their shaped the period, including urbanisation, the Crisis contemporary culture, politics, and society. It first of Doubt, duty, the position of women in society, focuses on the innovations in style and form in and the function of art. In addressing these prose and poetry that developed in the early years of issues, the module will consider its primary texts the century. After exploring the emergence of high in relation to the social contexts of their time, Modernism, the module turns to the changing cross- paying particular attention to cultural issues such currents in post-war and mid-century literature, and as the relationship between writers and the reading last to the alterable understandings of modernity public, the formation of a public mode of address and identity in late 20th century and early 21st in literature, and censorship and rebellion in the century literary experimentation. As it traverses publishing industry. both canonical and neglected literary works, this module investigates the relationships between art Encounters with The literature of the 16th and 17th centuries and identity politics, class and consumer culture, the Unknown in reflects early modern England’s fascination with the technology and gender, and the attempts to express Early Modern fantastic and the unfamiliar, including the practices conflict through literary style, literary elitism, and Literature and beliefs of people from around the known world. formal experimentalism in prose, poetry and drama. Written during a time of imperial ambitions and geographical expansion, these texts demonstrate a Global This module focuses on the relationships between strong interest in the discovery of new places, and Modernisms constructions of identity and place, exile and even new worlds. Authors often looked beyond the belonging and the style and form of literary writing physical world they were familiar with, creating across a range of global contexts. It considers the fictional depictions of supernatural landscapes and ways in which authors from both hemispheres magical beings. This module introduces you to how have reacted against the literary and political status such themes of exploration, cross-cultural encounter, quo, challenging social and geographical, national and supernatural discovery were explored and and aesthetic expectations. The reading on the debated within early modern literature. course encourages you to consider modernist and contemporary literatures across a variety of complex, Finding a Voice: This module gives you the opportunity to develop transnational contexts, raising questions about how Creative Writing your creative writing through a series of workshops. to interpret the value and reception of texts in terms The module will develop writing practices by looking of a ‘world literature’. at fiction, poetry, and drama in addition to practical exercises in creative writing. You will develop an Inventing the This module introduces you to English literature appreciation of the process of writing, revising, and Early Modern: written during the 16th and 17th centuries: the age editing your work in response to an audience of Literary Cultures, of Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Shakespeare, and Milton. peers and experts. Through practical exercises and 1550-1700 Early modern England (c. 1550-1700) experienced seminar discussions, you will explore a variety of new geographical discoveries and technological textual forms, styles and content and build a project advancements, but also suffered political, religious according to your own tastes and interests showing and social turmoil. Creative and stylistic innovations how you have implemented the techniques taught flourished, as writers responded to the legacy of on the course. classical Greece and Rome; the first professional English theatres opened (and closed!); and both men and women, from diverse social backgrounds, gained fresh opportunities to publish their work. This module explores some of the most influential, unusual, and inventive literary works of early modern England. 7

Liberty, Slavery, The late 18th century saw intense debates about the Literature and This team-taught interdisciplinary module invites CORNWALL Tyranny: evils of slavery, the limits of political liberty, and the the Past you to consider the relationship between literary Literature and link between imaginative literature and historical and cultural works that depict the past through Politics in the agency. This module introduces students to some of remembrance, commemoration, or representation. Romantic Age the key texts written in the incredibly tumultuous You will be invited to participate in a series of period between 1780 and 1820 when Britain was masterclasses by different members of staff from involved in a transatlantic slave trade, a global war across the department who will introduce you to with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and examples of literature’s engagement with the past wracked at home by often violent political agitation. and its effect on subsequent heritage culture. The The module opens with the growth of a powerful module covers a range of different periods and literature of anti-slavery in the 1780s, while ending genres and invites interdisciplinary approaches to with the literary culture of Britain in the wake the issue of commemoration and representation of of the Peterloo Massacre of political reformers history. The module involves a field trip to a site of at Manchester in 1819. Some of the great works literary importance in Cornwall, at student cost. of Romantic period literature will be considered Reason and The 18th century was a time that saw the birth of alongside the rhetorical political culture of the time. Passion: Literature modern society in market capitalism and financial Literature This module will provide you with an introduction of the Long crashes; the growth of secularism and materialism; and Conflict, to literary depictions and enactments of conflict 18th Century the mass consumption of novels, poetry, and 1900-present and change across the 20th and 21st centuries. plays; and the emergence of popular politics You will consider how a diverse range of conflicts and global imperialism. Yet it can be a strange in this period have impacted on modes of literary and disorientating place for modern readers: the representation: from the Great War to climate literature seethes with hyperbolic emotions as change, from violent clashes over social and racial writers experiment with new radical new forms. injustice, to challenges to conceptions of gender and This module will guide you through the literature, sexuality. Traversing canonical and neglected works culture, and history of Britain and Ireland, from the from a variety of literary genres, artistic forms and urbane neoclassicism of Pope at the beginning of the old/new media (eg, painting, music, film, radio or century, to the debates about sensibility and emotion television) this module will investigate the shifting, by the end. often volatile relationship between art and society in Romantics and This module is a survey course covering British a period of seismic historical change. Victorians: literature and culture between c.1800 and c.1900. Literature and the This module investigates the relationships between Literature in the It gives you an insight into the evolution of poetry Environment writing and place, focusing on how the physical Industrial Age and prose fiction from Romanticism, through to environment shapes literary work, and how reading the high-Victorian realist novel, and fin-de-siècle and writing shape our perception of the country periodical fiction. This module pays close attention to and the city: nature, ecology, and the metropolitan. the ways in which literary concerns and styles relate Texts are selected from a range of historical to their social, political, and cultural contexts. In periods, literary genres, and cultural traditions, particular, you will consider literary texts in terms of with an emphasis on addressing current debates social reform, technological development, the British in environmentalism from a literary perspective. Empire, religious ‘Doubt’, and evolutionary science. Among the areas covered will be pastoral and Sex, Money, and This module invites you to read the fiction of the cultural environmentalism’, the ‘blue humanities’ and Crime: Fiction in 18th century, a period in which the realist novel ‘blue wellbeing’, urban psychogeography, regional the 18th Century as we know it began to emerge from a diverse and and national identities, and the Anthropocene exciting body of prose fiction. It will interrogate and climate change. Topics discussed are likely to classic accounts of the ‘rise of the novel’ in the include the politics of access and ownership; issues 18th century, considering the way in which prose in conservation; how gender, race, and class inflect fiction came to be associated with social realism the perception of landscape; and travel writing. and character psychology. Erotic entanglements and The module will include a regional field trip, at matters of money will all be looked at, and fiction’s student cost. desire to reveal the hidden lives of individuals will be considered. From crime narratives to captivity to the picaresque and the political, the full range of life and its depiction in fiction in the long 18th century will be considered. 8

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The Human In antiquity Aristotle famously listed man as a FINAL YEAR Animal in Early ‘political animal’ next to ‘bee, wasp, and crane’, yet Contemporary Writers and artists have produced some Modern Literature separated man as ‘the only animal who has logon Literature extraordinary work over the past four decades— (speech/reason)’. Based on the teachings of the literature that is engaged, politically charged, and ancients, and living in a world of major religious, experimental. This module introduces students to political, and cultural changes, early modern a range of late 20th century and 21st century texts writers and thinkers tried to reformulate the that raise questions about literature’s role in the relationship between humans, animals, spirits, and conflicted political present. During the module, you God. The rift of the Reformation, the expansion will compare and contrast literary trends, artistic of urban commercial centres, the Civil Wars, and styles, ideologies and cultural tendencies in work the advancement of scientific thought led to new published in America, Britain, and South Africa. models of enquiry and knowledge. This module will You will also explore how contemporary writing place the animal (ie, the living being) at the heart opens onto global concerns about identity, place and of our understanding of early modern literature, inheritance that subvert national literary identities interrogating its corporeal and spiritual nature as and dominant cultural centres. The module will represented in literary texts, and examining the increase students’ familiarity with texts that have fragile boundaries between flesh and soul, humans responded to oppressive conditions in the nation and beasts, humans and the divine, and bodies and state, late modernity and global capitalism, terrorism, their natural or artificial environments. postcoloniality. It will attend to experimental and The Supernatural Questions of belief gained a charged resonance mainstream literatures, and will cover a range of in Early Modern in the later 16th and 17th centuries, following genres, including fiction, short stories and poetry. Literature significant developments in how religious identity Creative Writing This module is designed to enable you to operate was defined – and policed. Early modern authors Dissertation independently and responsibly, and to take a positive debated these points within their writings. Issues of and active role in your learning, in the service of faith impacted upon early modern views of magic, the production of a sustained piece of creative and at a time when people feared the Devil might walk critical work. The module enhances the creative among them; this period witnessed an increased writing skills and practices you develop during the literary and historical emphasis on persecuting Short Fiction module. Your writing skills – including witches, even as magical practices such as alchemy narrative structures, voice, character, thematic and astrology retained a certain social acceptability. meaning, and the role of conflict – will be extended In this module, you will explore the representation to suit longer, more sustained pieces of fiction. Your of and engagement with such supernatural themes critical awareness of genre will be sharpened with the and beings. completion of a self-reflexive essay, which will help Transatlantic This module will address the radical innovations you gain a deeper understanding of the way in which Avant-Gardes, of prose and poetry writing in the 19th century your work falls within a wider literary context. 1820-1900 in Great Britain and America. It will consider the Decadence and This module provides students with a comprehensive role experimental poetics played as writers reacted the Birth of introduction to decadence and early modernism. against a materialist society to consider the aesthetic Modernism Beginning with the French Decadence of the and spiritual function of literature in an increasingly Second Empire and moving through into British secular age. In raising these issues it will give Aestheticism, classic writers of the fin de siècle particular consideration to the way these writers (such as Pater and Wilde) before finishing with the reacted to earlier literary works and understood their emergence of Modernism in Britain and America, own role as artists. It asks to what extent new forms this subject will introduce students to a range of or languages were necessary to articulate artistic canonical and forgotten texts, and films. Students vision in what Elizabeth Barrett Browning labelled should expect to cover such issues as Hellenism; ‘an age of mere transition’. Decadent reconceptions of time and ‘the moment’, and how this influenced the Bloomsbury group; parodies and rejections of Decadence; Decadent conceptions of landscape; the flaneur; Decadent Gothic; Decadence in America; Decadence in the little magazines; The New Woman; Aestheticist interior design and collecting; deviant sexualities; stylistic exemplifications of Decadence and Decadence on film. 9

Dissertation The dissertation is an independent research project,

which enables you to operate autonomously and CORNWALL responsibly, and take a positive and active role in your learning. You will plan and produce a sustained piece of critical work that highlights the skills you have learnt over the course of your degree programme, incorporating a range of research methods and methodologies. You will receive guidance from a supervisor and receive support through a series of workshops and lectures. The dissertation module teaches you time management skills and gives you the flexibility to devise and follow your own research questions, extending your knowledge in a specialism which you have particularly enjoyed. Extreme States: Extreme States is a module about the self: more From Hysteria specifically, it is about the self-subjected to states to Desire of extremity, a fascination for literature in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Why did writers of the era return repeatedly to hyperbolic figures like trauma, alienation and incest? And how did these experiences relate to the legacy of the serene rational cogito bequeathed by the Enlightenment? This module looks at a range of genres (poetry, essay, novel) in historical, philosophical/theoretical and formal terms to explore this reconsideration of identity and subjectivity under the rubric of the extreme. Feeling Bodies: Is Hamlet’s melancholy available to us? Can we Emotions in Early access Volumnia’s anger and John Bunyan’s despair? Modern Literature Do emotions such as love, pain, and fear remain and Culture, universal constants in all times and places or do 1500-1700 they have a history to tell? Building on familiarity with the Renaissance, this module aims to explore representations of the passions in early modern literature and to examine the role of culture (religious, political, scientific, philosophical, and theatrical) in their formation. Analysing individual and communal emotions in a range of texts including drama, poetry, sermons, pamphlets, natural philosophy accounts and autobiographical writing, students will undertake archival research, blog about their findings, and engage in dialogue with some of the most exciting areas of recent interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities (eg, affect theory, history of emotions, medical humanities). This module includes field trips at student cost. Literature, Place, Literature is always set in place but particularly Encounter (Field striking encounters exist when literary traditions Course) engage a specific form of foreignness. This encounter can occur thematically, imaginatively or inter- textually, or it can take place in material forms, as writers travel physically to foreign locations and inscribe them in their texts. This module, which is linked intellectually and through assessment to a field trip to Rome and Florence, allows us to think through the placing of Italy in the Anglophone TREMOUGH HOUSE, PENRYN CAMPUS literary imagination. Through the field trip, we will specifically focus on literature in place: both what it means for literary experience to happen in situ, and what it means for literature of the past to be central to the way place is experienced in the present, through practices of heritage and literary tourism. 10

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Revenge Revenge has a long and significant cultural history, The Development The Development of British Children’s Literature as suggested by its thematic prominence in Western of British investigates the history of writing for children in literature. From early narratives of divine vengeance, Children’s Britain, from its beginnings to the present day. In to the modern fascination with retribution and Literature addition to examining many books now considered vigilante justice, revenge has been and is a subject ‘classics’ of the genre, it also considers texts that are that both horrifies and fascinates authors and now largely forgotten but which were once avidly readers. Within literature, the depiction of revenge read by 18th and 19th century children. Among raises important questions about authorship, gender, the issues to be investigated are the relationship society, faith, and life after death. This module will of children’s literature to evolving definitions of consider the significance of revenge tropes in a the child, the representation of gender, class, age, selection of Western literary texts, and explore how and nationality in children’s literature, and the such revenge narratives frame social, cultural and development, uses, and effects of some of the key spiritual issues that continue to preoccupy us today. features of the genre – including anthropomorphism, allegory, and fantasy. The module will consider Sex, Scandal What literature caused a sensation among or even the twin roles of didacticism and entertainment and Sensation shocked Victorian readers, and how did they respond in writing for children, and the history of their in Victorian to it? Looking across a range of poetry and fiction interactions within the genre. It will focus on Literature from the period, this module engages directly with problems such as the inherent power-dynamics hotly debated issues, such as the burgeoning market of literature written by adults for children, and the for cheap, unhealthy literature, the tensions among dual audience of books designed to be read aloud to social classes, and the scandals relating to marriage, children. Finally it will address the question of how divorce, sexuality and prostitution. From tales of we, as adult readers, can best evaluate the critical and murder and incarceration, to fantasies of female literary value of children’s literature. vampirism, the Victorian literature of sex, scandal and sensation excited readers’ imaginations as well as Tolkien: Scholar, J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most influential writers their passions. The core reading emphasises popular Critic, Writer of the 20th century – and one of the most neglected and genre fiction, but includes poetry and contextual figures in academic literary criticism. This module documents as well. aims to redress this situation by examining Tolkien as a writer, critic, and scholar, and by investigating Short Fiction This module will develop your writing practices by the popular culture inspired by his work in film, focusing on the short story. It introduces a range of music and ephemera. The course will begin with approaches to the genre from the traditional to the Tolkien as a student of Old and Middle English innovative. Published short fiction in English, along philology, before focusing on his translations and with short fiction translated from other languages, criticism of Anglo-Saxon and medieval poetry. The will serve as a model for a broad knowledge of the central component of the course will consist of form. Through practical exercises and workshop detailed study of his three major works – The Hobbit, discussions of your own short fiction, you will The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion – with develop awareness and understanding of textual particular emphasis on the formation and revision of forms, content, and style. You will also develop an these and associated texts. The course will conclude appreciation of the processes involved in writing with a comparison of the Ralph Bakshi and Peter short fiction including drafting, revising, editing, Jackson film treatments and other examples of developing ideas, and awareness of audience. reception in other literature and in different media. 21st Century Since 2007, for the first time in human history, Literature and more people live in cities than rural areas. By the Global City 2050, 75 per cent of the world’s population will be urbanised. Today, urbanisation is driven by the economic and cultural dynamics of globalisation. The urban, the global and the contemporary are completely intertwined. Grappling with these facts, and traveling from the (perhaps) familiar locales of London, New York and Detroit, to the newer global cities of Lagos, Vancouver and Mumbai, in this module you will study recent works of American, British and Anglophone poetry, fiction, television, photography and film that aim to come to terms with the new global urban reality of contemporary life. 11

Witchcraft This optional module will introduce you to the and Magic in theme of magic and witchcraft in British and CORNWALL Literature American literature and film, exploring what the supernatural means for the literary, gender, class, identity and aesthetic politics of texts. The module includes a section on medieval and early modern texts about witchcraft and magic, establishing the historical roots of the subject, before examining reworkings of demonological ideas in modern literature. Writing Ireland, From the 1801 Act of Union to the present day, 1800 to the present Irish writing and culture displays a remarkably inventive and often experimental energy. Students will encounter the rich literary heritage of Ireland through fiction, poetry, drama, and film. A wide array of writers will be read, all of whom engage in different ways with the conflict between tradition and modernity, individual identity and community, and political and imaginative literature. The module encourages both close imaginative reading of literary texts and awareness of wider historical and theoretical contexts for thinking about the literature and heritage of Ireland.

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The nature of learning at university involves FILM, AUDIO AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT considerable self-guided study and research. OTHER MEDIA You will have access to an academic tutor You will be taught through a combination who is available for advice and support of lectures and discussion-based seminars. We use a range of film, video, audio and throughout your studies. There are also a We also support the development of team- other media to aid study of printed texts number of services on campus where you based learning by organising students into and other forms of cultural production. can get advice and information, including study groups, and we make full use of both Our libraries have extensive audio visual Student Services and FXU. You can find traditional learning resources and our virtual collections as well as the Chris Brooks further information about all the services in learning environment. Lecturers and tutors collection, which contains over 10,000 the University’s undergraduate prospectus or are all available to provide further support works of primary and secondary source online at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate in one-to-one consultations. Victorian material. ◆ Most of your work will be done in group OTHER OPPORTUNITIES STUDY ABROAD and self-directed study: reading or viewing We provide an exciting range of special Studying at our Penryn Campus offers you module material, writing essays or preparing the exciting possibility of spending a year for your seminars. Active participation in lectures and seminars by visiting academics and renowned writers. In addition to your abroad. With Study Abroad, you could learn seminars develops important transferable a new language and experience different skills such as good verbal and visual academic work, the student-run English Society organises book and poetry readings, cultures, become more self-confident and communication and effective interaction widen your circle of friends. You could also with other people. You will also develop film screenings and social events, providing an opportunity to meet students who share get the chance to specialise in areas that a range of professional abilities, such as aren’t available within your programme, time management and team working, a love of literature, culture and the arts. Students from the English department are and when it comes to a career, your skills plus valuable critical, analytical and and knowledge of another country will communication skills. always active in extracurricular activities and opportunities as well, ranging from prove invaluable to many employers. This programme is available equally to overseas INNOVATIVE LEARNING the student newspapers to ‘Penryn Press’, a student run and founded publishing house. students coming to study here. We are actively engaged in introducing new Further details about study abroad and methods of learning and teaching, including RESEARCH-INSPIRED our partner institutions can be found at the increasing use of interactive computer- TEACHING www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/studyabroad based approaches to learning. Through our virtual learning environment, you can We believe that every student benefits from EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE access detailed information about modules, being part of a culture that is inspired by and interact through activities such as research and being taught by experts who are IN THE UK OR ABROAD discussion forums. also trained teachers – you will discuss the Spending up to a year carrying out a very latest ideas in seminars and tutorials. graduate-level work placement or placements You will also have access to online This is particularly important in the final as part of your degree programme is a subscription databases and websites, such year of your studies, where modules will valuable opportunity. This unlocks a world of as Early English Books Online (EEBO), give you the most up-to-date research ideas experience, allowing you to develop essential Eighteenth Century Collections Online and debates in the discipline. The work of employability and interpersonal skills that (ECCO), MLA FirstSearch and JSTOR. our academic staff is of the highest quality, relate to your degree and future career. You as evidenced by the most recent assessment will take full responsibility for finding and of research (REF 2014) in which English p organising your placement (either in the ranked 4th in the UK for research power . UK or abroad), with preparation, support and approval from the University. This is a great way to demonstrate to employers your adaptability, cultural awareness, independence and resourcefulness.

p Times Higher Education research power ranking based on Research Excellence Framework 2014. ¿ In order to be eligible for our ‘with Study Abroad’ programmes you will need to attain an average of 60 per cent or more in your first year. www.exeter.ac.uk/english undergraduate section ofourwebsite each modulearefor availableinatthe Further detailsoftheassessment criteria to passitinorder toprogress. classification,final degree but youdohave Your first year doesn’t counttowards your exam tocoursework ison average 40:60. and presentation work. formal ratio of The essays,Coursework includes adissertation through examsandcoursework.primarily You but ofways beassessedinavariety will ASSESSMENT at www.exeter.ac.uk/flc/penryn Further detailsabouttheFLC befound can beginner’s level. Chinesefrom andMandarin plus German complete beginnersuptoadvanced levels, in French language from andSpanish modules Centre beoffering inPenryn will degree certificate. The ForeignLanguage to have in’ proficiency ‘with added to your morefor thanone year you may beentitled foreign language. Ifyou studythe language using upto30credits each year tostudya by boosttheiremployability Penryn can 2018,New for undergraduatesbasedin CENTRE INPENRYN FOREIGN LANGUAGE horizons. intellectual career-relatedto develop orwidenyour skills instancealanguagefor orbusinessmodule, up to30credits eachyear inanothersubject, Depending on your programme you take can OUTSIDE OFYOUR COURSE TAKING MODULES LIBRARY, PENRYNCAMPUS 13 CORNWALL 14 ENGLISH IN EXETER SINGLE HONOURS

Our Streatham Campus offers a number of exciting BA English (EXETER)

degree programmes supported by unrivalled research- Q300 3 yrs led teaching. You will study a diverse range of with Study Abroad Q313 4 yrs material, and our flexible programme will enable with Employment Experience Q315 4 yrs with Employment Experience Abroad Q316 4 yrs you to develop and follow your own interests. AAA-AAB | IB: 36-34 | BTEC: DDD Ì Required subjects: GCE AL English Literature Ì Our programmes have plenty of choice, allowing you to develop grade A; IB English HL6. an understanding of many different genres and forms of writing from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. You also have the  Develop your expertise in subjects ranging opportunity to study the history of cinema up to the present day, from medieval to contemporary literatures and creative writing practices in poetry, prose and screenwriting  with expert creative tutors. Single Honours English optional modules range across film studies and creative writing At the end of your programme, you will have acquired an  Opportunity to undertake a work placement, extensive and enriched knowledge of English literature allowing you to apply and develop your skills and have developed into an independent, self-motivated in a working environment researcher ready for a broad range of graduate careers or postgraduate study. Year 1 The first year of study will provide you with a rich foundation in the evolution of English literature from Genesis to Frankenstein. It will give you the theoretical tools to interrogate how literature and culture intersect, and offer you essential training in university-level research and writing. In addition to modules giving you a foundation in the analysis of poetry and poetic form, you are offered a choice of modules in the second term, introducing you to important sub- fields of our subject such as creative writing, film studies or Shakespeare. Year 2 In your second year you will develop a path of study by selecting four optional modules. You can choose from modules covering specific periods of English literature spanning Medieval to Modernism, and from a range of non-chronological topics such as transatlantic literatures, adaptation, critical theory and creative industries, including further options in both film studies and creative writing. Year 2 will also give you the opportunity to take a work placement, allowing you to develop a critical understanding of a business or other work environment. Final Year In your final year you will select three optional modules from an extensive list of options. Our optional modules will allow you THE SANCTUARY, STREATHAM CAMPUS to learn from academics at the cutting edge of their field and become part of the debate on topics that may include the writings of James Joyce, representations of India in film and fiction, surrealism and its legacies, or literary cultures of realism. They will enable you to delve deeper into topics such as Elizabethan literature and culture, advanced critical theory, or Dickensian England. and/or culture. literature two must American beinNorth a substantialamountofpre-1800 material, university. 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      BA EnglishandDrama Ì Please seewww.exeter.ac.uk/ug/dramaPlease Literature Required subjects: GCEALEnglish AAA-AAB |IB: 36-34|BTEC: DDD WQ37 4yrs Abroad Experience with Employment WQ36 4yrs Experience with Employment Abroad with Study WQ35 4yrs WQ34 3yrs follow yourfollow own interests allowingyou and material todevelop The programmerange covers awide of contexts andcultural oftheatre historical engagement withthesocial,practical yourDevelop critical, imaginative and contexts andcultural historical with texts understoodintheir critically approaches thatenable you toengage introducing you totheoretical works, arange ofliterary Study and theatre practice centres ofexcellence in research, teaching builds on two internationally-renowned andflexibledegreeA challenging that unless you to choose orGreekstudy Latin language modules taught intranslation soyou don’t have to For Studies, Classical textsare all usually slogans toadvertising speeches political manneroftextsfromthe meaningofall tounpack in any language andanability andcomplex worksmost brilliant written Gain anunderstandingofsome ofthe and p seeEntryRequirements boxonpage16. Ì gradeA; English IB p Ì

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BA English and FLEXIBLE COMBINED Film Studies (EXETER) HONOURS The English course at Exeter really does cater for all English at Streatham may also be studied Q3W6 3 yrs of your literary needs. In first with Study Abroad Q3W7 4 yrs under our innovative Flexible Combined with Employment Experience Q3W8 4 yrs Honours scheme. year you study literature from with Employment Experience Abroad  Combine two subjects where there is the Bible to Gulliver’s Travels Q3W9 4 yrs currently no existing Combined Honours and everything in between; it AAB-ABB | IB: 34-32 | BTEC: DDD-DDM degree at the University. These subjects Required subjects: GCE AL English Ì Ì can fall across departments, creating a really gives you a flavour of what Literature grade A; IB English HL6. cross-college degree such as ‘English English Literature is all about. As Please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/film and Philosophy’  a second-year student you get  Develop your familiarity with an Study three subject areas if compulsory to choose what you read and historically and nationally diverse range modules allow of films and literary texts  Take modules from a variety of write about, and bring in your  Equip yourself with the critical tools and departments by studying one of our own readings to class discussions vocabulary needed for thoughtful and in thematic pathways and debates. There really is a lot depth analysis Further information and the full list of choice available.  A very wide range of module choices will of available subjects can be found at enable you to work in interdisciplinary www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/flexible Being a visually impaired student, ways between literary and visual cultural the level of support available texts at Exeter really helped me to  Blend your study of film with literature, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: or choose modules which offer MORE INFO settle in and make me feel a part Ì contrasting approaches Programme requirement Candidates of the university. Finally, with may offer either GCE AL English beautiful countryside, sunshine BA English and Modern Languages Literature or English Language and almost all the time, and the (EXETER) Literature. Candidates taking the IB should offer English syllabus A. seaside just 15 minutes on the Applicants studying a BTEC Extended QR06 4 yrs train, Exeter’s surrounding areas Diploma will also require GCE AL AAA-ABB | IB: 36-32 | BTEC: DDD-DDM English Literature or English Language mean that there is plenty to do Required subjects: dependent on language and Literature. chosen, see information on page 33. in your spare time. p Please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/languages For Combined Honours with Drama: We try to see as many applicants as James, studying BA English (Streatham)  Engage in literary study while developing possible before making an offer, and your language skills in a cultural context normally interview applicants who may be offering alternative qualifications. A large  Explore innovations in literature in their proportion of applicants are invited to historical and national context attend a day-long workshop and interview. A short interview with an individual  Learn important analytical techniques member of staff is combined with that will be useful across a range of staff-led and separate student-led studio subjects and research tasks sessions along with a chance to explore  Develop specialist knowledge through our facilities. Working and talking with optional modules on a range of topics each other and with present students are important features of this experience. The day runs from midday to 6pm. THE BILL DOUGLAS CINEMAMUSEUM,STREATHAM CAMPUS THE BILLDOUGLAS 17 EXETER 18 KEY C = Compulsory  C*== Optional Choose from a selection of MODULES IN EXETER compulsory modules

For up-to-date details of all our 2019 programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english

For optional Combined Honours modules please visit the relevant 2019 programme page www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses-by-subject

Year 1 Modules

Module Name English English and English English and Art History & Classical Studies English and Film Visual Culture and Modern Languages English and Drama

Beginnings: English Literature Before 1800 C C C C C C

Approaches to Criticism C

Academic English C

The Poem C      Introduction to Creative Writing       The Novel       Film Studies: An Introduction      Rethinking Shakespeare    C  

Introducing Visual Culture C*

Introduction to the History of Art C*

Inside the Museum C*

Pretexts and Contexts of Drama C

Visual Media C*

Greek and Roman Narrative C*

Acting and Not Acting: The Dialectics of Performance C

Introduction to Film Analysis C

Major Debates in Film Theory C

Post A Level Language❖ Cp

Language for Beginners Cp

❖ Available in French (titled French Language), German (titled German Language), Italian (titled Italian Language), Russian (titled Contemporary Russian Written and Oral), Spanish (titled Spanish Language). Not available for Portuguese or Chinese.  Available in Chinese (titled Beginners Chinese), French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. p If studying Combined Honours English and Modern Languages you must take one beginners or post A level language module. p ❖  * Year 2Modules Module Name Intermediate (post-beginner)Languages Language, Written andOral Performance andInterpretation Greek andRomanNarrative VisualPracticesContemporary Debates andContestationsinArtHistory Greek andRomanDrama andVisualCultureFieldStudy Art History European FilmNoir* Cinescapes: Time,SpaceandIdentity* Creative Writing: MakingaPoem (Non-periodised) Culture, CrisisandEcologyinaPostcolonial World (Non-periodised) Humanities AftertheHuman:Further (Non-periodised) AdventuresinCriticalTheory Romanticism (Post) Crossing theWater: Transatlantic Relations(Post) Literary Satire andtheCity:EnglishLiterature1660-1750(Pre) Renaissance andRevolution(Pre) WritingsRevolutions andEvolutions:19thCentury (Post) Adaptation: Text, Image,Culture(Post) Shots intheDark(Post) Creative Industries:TheirPast, OurFuture (Non-periodised) Theatrical Cultures:RenaissancetoRestoration(Pre) Modernism andModernity:Literature1900-1960(Post) Creative Writing: (Non-periodised) BuildingaStory Empire ofLiberty:AmericanLiterature,1776toPresent (Post) Chaucer andHisContemporaries(Pre) Desire andPower: EnglishLiterature1570-1640(Pre)

Priority isgiventostudentsonSingleHonours/CombinedHonoursFilm degrees. If studyingCombinedHonoursEnglishandModern Languages youmusttakeonelanguagemodule. inChinese,French,Available German,Italian(titledLanguage), Portuguese, Russian,Spanish(titledLanguage [ex-Beginners]). inFrench,Available German,Italian,Russian (titledContemporaryRussianwrittenandoralI),Spanish. 

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C* C* Art History &                    C Visual Culture and English C*                    Classical Studies and English C*                    C English and Drama                   C English and Film C C                    English and p p Modern Languages 19 EXETER 20

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Final Year Modules

Module Name English English and English English and Art History & Classical Studies English and Film Visual Culture and Modern Languages English and Drama

Dissertation C* C* C* C* C* C*

Creative Writing Dissertation¿ C* C* C* C* C* C*

Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation C*      Life and Death in Early Modern Literature C*      Citizens of the World C*      Surrealism and Its Legacies       American Independent Film       Something to See: War and Visual Media       Hardy and Women Who Did: The Coming of Modernity       Writing the Short Film       Advanced Critical Theory       Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop      

James Joyce’s Ulysses       Charles Dickens: Novelist, Journalist and Reformer       India Uncovered – Representations in Film and Fiction       Literature/Anti-Literature       Visual and Literary Cultures of Realism       Encountering the Other in Medieval Literature       Modern Irish Literature       The Rise of Science       Mystery and Manners: The American Short Story       Cultures of Neuroscience       Harlem and After: African American Literature, 1925-present      

¿ Food and Literature in Early Modern England       ¿ p  Module Name Advanced LanguageSkills Creative FilmDissertation Romance fromChaucertoShakespeare The DeathoftheNovel ‘Reader, IMarriedHim’:TheEvolutionofRomanceFictionfrom1740tothe Present Virginia Woolf: Fiction,Feeling,Form Publishing Literature:History, Contemporary Practice, Theory Resource Fictions:Oil,Water andConflictinthe World-System Insurgent Narratives:ClassWarfare intheLong20thCentury Writing forChildrenandYoung Adults African Narratives William GoldingandtheArchive Moby-Dick Imperial Encounters:TheVictoriansandtheirWorld British Screens Female Screens:Representation,AgencyandAuthorship Speaking Animals:LiteratureandInterspeciesRelations Ghosts, WitchesandDemon:TheRenaissanceSupernatural Poetry andPolitics Dissertation

Combined honoursstudentscantakeadissertationeitherinmodernlanguagesortheir Honoursprogramme. inChinese, French,Available German, Italian,Portuguese, Russian,Spanish. their degree.Iftheyhavenot,wewillreviewthestudent’sworktoadviseifmoduleissuitable. Combined HonoursstudentscanopttotaketheCreativeWriting Dissertationiftheyhavestudiedcreativewritingduring 

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Art History &                  Visual Culture and English                  Classical Studies and English                  English and Drama C*                  English and Film C                  C English and p Modern Languages 21 EXETER 22

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Approaches This module will introduce you to a broad range The Novel This module will introduce you to an exciting range to Criticism of theoretical approaches to reading texts. Such of novels representative of diverse narrative styles approaches, developed throughout the 20th and 21st drawn from different historical periods and national century and deployed by English Studies scholars, contexts. It covers the development of this important are intended to be both worthy of historical study in genre from the birth of the novel in 18th century their own right and useful to your own research at England through the 19th century and modernist university. Over the course of the module you will periods into the present day. It draws on examples explore a range of ways in which you might approach from English, American and post-colonial cultures familiar and unfamiliar texts, and be encouraged to and provides a valuable foundation for future study question exactly what a text might be and why it is in a number of literary fields. worth our critical attention. The Poem Despite its strong oral traditions and origins, poetry Academic English This module provides you with the discipline-specific is the origin of written literature. It is the base on skills you need to make the most of your degree, which all that literature – drama, novels, non-fiction including skills in close reading, critical analysis, prose – is built. Many of its formal elements are research, writing and referencing. It invites you to used in common and rhetorical speech. This module work closely with a single tutor in small seminar introduces you to the mechanical aspects of poetry groups and to study a range of texts which, while and to its history; in addition, it offers you insight close to the tutor’s own broad field of teaching and into the history and influence of important poetic research interests, will also include a range of genres, eras, as well as into how understanding of it may styles and historical and cultural contexts. be enriched by literary theory. By the end of the module, you will have a firm grounding in the poem Beginnings: This module selects texts that represent some of as a form and as a literary force. English Literature the richest sources and most complex moments of Before 1800 English cultural history before 1800. These texts, and YEAR 2 the cultural elements they combine, went on to have significant afterlives in literature and other media (Pre 1750) and great influence on the English language. In other Chaucer and His An introduction to English late-medieval literature senses, they offered legacies that were not taken up, Contemporaries – you will be introduced to a world of devotion, and what has been lost in cultural transformations brutality, exclusion, chivalry, misogyny, piety, courtly will also be considered. refinement, and farting. We will look at religious Film Studies: This module introduces you to the study of film, and secular, and courtly and popular traditions, and An Introduction allowing you to analyse diverse modes of film form themes such as ‘courtly love’, that adores women and style. It shows the cinema through a range of and puts them on a pedestal, arguably the better to critical lenses or frames, introducing you to the key ignore them; the constructions of femininity and critical and theoretical concepts in film studies. masculinity in a Christian chivalric culture; the ways in which a tension-riven society went about Introduction to This module introduces you to some of the key presenting a harmonious vision of itself; and a Creative Writing technical and imaginative skills needed to begin Christianity that approached its God with a mixture writing successful poems and short stories. of familiarity and awe. Rethinking This module explores Shakespeare’s King Lear, As Desire and Power: You will be introduced to a wide variety of literature Shakespeare You Like It, and The Taming of the Shrew from a wide English Literature written during the most important years of the range of perspectives. You will examine the contexts 1570-1640 English Renaissance, when society was in the process of the plays’ production and reception; the plays’ of enormous change and upheaval at every level. print histories; early modern performance practices, Explore works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and how other writers and film directors have and Donne, as well as other important writers of the adapted Shakespeare’s plays. Through engaging with era including Mary Wroth, Philip Sidney, Francis the sources and precursors to Shakespeare’s plays, the Bacon, John Webster and Thomas Nashe. You intricacies of textual production and editorial history, will engage with a wide range of topics including as well as how these plays have been reimagined by eroticism, religion, authorship, social change, and other writers, you will be asked to rethink notions of anxiety about the power of the monarchy. textual stability in relation to the ‘Shakespearean text’ and encounter the nuances and richness available within Shakespeare scholarship. 23 EXETER Renaissance This module introduces literature written during one (Post 1750) and Revolution of the most colourful, turbulent periods of English history. Covering poetry, drama, and various forms Adaptation: Text, The process of adapting material from literary forms, of prose writing, it describes courtly literature of the Image, Culture such as scripts, short stories, novels and plays into reigns of James I, Charles I and Charles II as well film, television and other screen media is one of as the explosion of new literary forms during the the oldest, most dominant and most ubiquitous English Revolution of 1640 to 1660. It includes the strategies in the creative industries. By analysing work of major writers, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, a wide range of adaptations in different forms you Milton and Aphra Behn, and also less familiar will be able to understand the rich and complex ones such as John Ford, Anna Trapnel or Lucy relationships between textual and visual media at Hutchinson. Central themes include monarchy and distinct historical moments and in specific cultural the display of power, the emergence of the woman contexts. This module offers you the opportunity writer, changing attitudes towards sexuality and the to understand adaptation as a creative process and body, representations of the countryside, and the adaptations as cultural products. growth of a discourse of nationhood. Crossing Examine the fertile relationship between the literary Satire and the City: The period 1660 to 1750 was politically and the Water: cultures of Britain and some of its former colonies, English Literature culturally tumultuous. The Stuart dynasty was Transatlantic Ireland, and North America. The texts studied cover 1660-1750 restored to the throne, and then deposed again. Literary Relations early settlement through to the present day and London expanded massively, becoming the largest particular focus is paid to the late 19th, 20th and 21st city in the world and a centre for financial and centuries. The work of a range of authors is explored criminal activity. The theatres – closed during the and texts and genres covered include drama, poetry, civil war and interregnum – reopened, and actresses fiction and travel writing. Authors include Dickens, appeared on the English stage for the first time. Emerson, Stein, Auden, Plath, Vonnegut and Bryson. The spread of literacy and growth of the press led to We also look at the work of a number of South the emergence of many new literary genres – above West writers for whom transatlantic encounters have all the periodical and the novel – and of the first proved to be particularly productive, and examine professional authors, many of whom were women. American writers’ perceptions of and engagement Satire and polemical writing flourished in the period, with other European cultures beyond Britain’s shores, as writers reacted against (or celebrated) these in the context of the rich and interdisciplinary field seismic shifts. You will read a broad range of texts, of Transatlantic Studies. drawn equally from the poetry, prose and drama of Empire of This module introduces some of the major texts the period and learn to identify how these relate to Liberty: American and issues involved in the literature of the United the revolutionary times in which they were written. Literature, States over the past two hundred and fifty years. Theatrical Theatrical Cultures: Renaissance to Restoration 1776 to present You will study a broad range of texts - including Cultures: tracks the development of English drama from poetry, the novel, the short story, drama and Renaissance the Elizabethan period through to the early 18th autobiography – as well as the intersections of the to Restoration century. The module has a strong focus on theatre literature of the United States with broader literary history, which it combines with a consideration of and contextual issues, such as literary nationalism dramatic genres and fashions, thematic concerns, and the emergence of modernism. You will learn production contexts and technical/architectural how the dynamic and turbulent social and historic developments. You will learn about the distinct development of the US during this time is reflected theatrical cultures of the Elizabethan public stages, through literature, considering contexts such as the private performances at court and in indoor venues constitution of the democratic state, the problematic in Stuart England, and public theatres in Restoration history of ethnic and race relations, the nature of and 18th century London. The module’s texts will urban and rural space, the changing gender politics illuminate how cultural developments, such as the of US society, and how transnational models of increasing opportunities for women’s participation culture have affected our understanding of the US in theatrical culture, the influence of European literary canon. dramatic models or the growth of commerce and a mercantile middle class, are related to the development of English drama. 24

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Modernism Modernism and Modernity explores a wide range (Non-periodised) and Modernity: of British, American and Irish authors from the Creative Industries: Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future tracks Literature first half of the 20th century (1900-1960) who have Their Past, the profound changes that the creative industries 1900-1960 been instrumental in defining the modernist literary Our Future have gone through during the 20th and early canon. You will study the texts in relation to their 21st centuries. The module, which focuses on the political, aesthetic and critical contexts. Particular publishing industry, museums, film and theatre, attention is paid to innovation and experimentation, looks at how each of these industries has become to the emergence and development of literary and increasingly focused on ‘users’, tracking how they cultural movements and to literature’s perceived have worked with emergent technologies, including responsibility in a time of change. You will learn social media, to shape new forms of engagement; skills in contextual and historical analysis, and how they have widened participation and redefined independent research. access; reinvented values (aesthetic, economic, social); Revolutions and This module explores a wide range of literature and dealt with generational and social divides. You Evolutions: 19th written during the Victorian period. You will study will learn about how the creative industries operate Century Writings texts by writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte as organisations; how they design their relationships Brontë, and Thomas Hardy in relation to central to readerships, visitors and audiences; how they use historical, social, and cultural developments in the a range of technologies to reach out to different 19th century. The texts are thematically arranged groups; how they produce novel forms of aesthetic in order to illuminate a number of the important and economic value; and how they usually operate and exciting conceptual developments of the 19th through shrinking budgets. century including changes to the production and Creative Writing: The module develops a toolbox of writing techniques consumption of commodities; developing notions of Building a Story and approaches for contemporary short fiction. It the self and subjectivity; the emergence of the mass will prepare you for the contemporary writing world cultural market; and the connections between the by focusing on the kinds of writing that are being past, present and future. published at the present time, while examining the Romanticism The Romantic movement of the late 18th and early production of literary texts within their traditions 19th centuries transformed European culture, and had and lineages. Through practical exercises and profound implications for a modern understanding seminar discussions, you will explore a variety of of the self, nature, feeling, gender, imagination, the textual forms, styles and content and build a project sublime, freedom and the role of the artist as an according to your own tastes and interests showing interpreter of all these. This module introduces some how you have implemented the techniques taught of the key canonical texts of British Romanticism on the course. Students taking this module are not produced during the years 1780-1830, in order eligible to take the Year 2 Creative Writing module to understand the phenomenon of Romanticism, Making A Poem. its relation to historical, political, and aesthetic developments, and its legacy in today’s world. Creative Writing: The module develops a toolbox of writing techniques Making a Poem and approaches for writing contemporary poetry. It Shots in the Dark This module offers you the opportunity to look will prepare you for the contemporary poetry world closely at Hollywood, one of the world’s most by focusing on the kinds of poetry that are being successful exponents of screen entertainment, but published at the present time, while examining the also consider the important realms of independent production of literary texts within their traditions filmmaking and art cinema, which have broadened and lineages. Through practical exercises and seminar the scope of cinematic innovation and representation, discussions, students will explore a variety of textual and have often offered a distinct challenge to form and content. Students taking this module are Hollywood’s own practices. It gives you the chance not eligible to take the Year 2 Creative Writing to study some of the most fascinating and significant module Building a Story. films to have emerged from the American cinema, placing them in the rich cultural and institutional contexts from which they emerged. in Critical Theory Critical in Further Adventures the Human: After Humanities Postcolonial World ina and Ecology Culture, Crisis of literature, popularculture, life. andeveryday environment thestudy –andwhatthatmeansfor bodies, disabledbodies, objects, animals, andthe tosick beascribed can asks whatkindofagency and ofsubjectivity forms course imaginesnew site ofmeaning, knowledge, andcreativity. This (white, heterosexual, male)humansubjectasthe –hasdecentred the commentary and cultural philosophy,includes sociology, manifesto, political that –aconstellation ofwriting theory critical theHumanconsiders how Humanities After issuesofglobalisation. and contemporary deep connections power between imperial relations perspectives. focus enablesustoexploreThis the and divergences ofpostcolonial andenvironmental features, maptheconvergences themodulewill crisis. andthematic stylistic considering While representationcultural oftheconsequences ofglobal novels, poems, –toinvestigate stories the andshort introducewill you toarange oftexts–essays, films, andglobaltourism,of neoliberalism themodule animal rights, resource exploitation, andtheeffects asdevelopment anddisaster,such and conservation ofimperialism.adapted forms Focussing on issues environmental impact and ofcolonialism andnew thesocial,how textsinscribe and historical Caribbean, Asia, EastandSouth Middle assessing Literaturesfocused andfilm on Africa, the anintroductionThis moduleoffers to World Literature Modern in Early andDeath Life to Globalisation Decolonisation Writing: From Acts of Dissertation Creative Writing Dissertation FINAL YEAR writing from the sameperiod. writing asballads andsongs,such sermons, andmedical cycle,the life materials you examinenon-literary will and state. representations of Inaddition toliterary related tohisorherunderstanding ofself, family, on howviews thestage ofanindividual’s is life modern ofearly variety you encounterarich will Philips.Katherine themodule’s Analysing core texts, Donne, Thomas Middleton,Leigh and Dorothy James I, Thomas Heywood,Whitney, Isabella John Shakespeare, as prose piecesbyWilliam writers such represented inawiderange ofplays, poems, and ageing anddeath. arecycle These stages ofthelife life: childhood, adolescence, parenthood, marriage, that are engaged withthemilestones ofhuman In thismodule, works modern we read will early colonies. former writing,fiction andfilm Britain and its from poetry focuses The module on novels, theory, critical non- environment, economic globalisation. andcultural subjectivities,new relationship toart’s withthe collective guiltandresponsibility, politics, identity historiography, theethicsofrepresentation, with self-reflexivity, confessional styles, revisionist this interaction. rangesThis from thepreoccupation critical, andphilosophical debatesresponding to culture, andActs of Writing cultural, traces key and othershave interactedwith thesphere all of globalisation, andthe War on Terror. events These the Cold War, environmental crisis, increasing seismic change, ofEmpire, witnessingthedecline 1953tothepresentThe period hasbeen one of active learning, research andwriting. in togainskills provides theopportunity dissertation essay, underappropriate academic supervision. The the dissertation, along witharelated self-reflexive in consultationwrite withacademicstaffandthen prose orascreenplay. You your choose will project a collection ofpoetry, and acombination ofpoetry an extract from anovel, stories, asequenceofshort reflective commentary. Possible project include forms ofcreativecompletion work ofaportfolio and abilitiesthrough the imaginative andcritical You bothyour have todevelop will thechance ofyour choosing. writing sustained pieceoforiginal topursuea This modulegives theopportunity enjoyed. youwhich have particularly questions, extendingyour knowledge inaspecialism follow and your todevise own researchthe flexibility teaches you timemanagement andgives skills you workshops andlectures. module The dissertation andreceive through of aseries support supervisor methodologies. You receive will guidancefrom a arange ofresearch methodsand incorporating over thecourseofyourlearnt degree programme, work you thathighlights theskills haveof critical learning. You planandproduce will asustainedpiece responsibly, and take a positive and active role in your enablesyouwhich and autonomously tooperate isanindependent The dissertation research project, 25 EXETER 26

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Citizens of What did it mean to be a citizen of the world in the Ghosts, Witches This module explores the representation of the the World 18th century and Romantic period? This module and Demons supernatural in a selection of poetic, dramatic explores the shift from the cosmopolitan view that and prose works written between 1580 and 1680. the enlightened person was at home everywhere to Among its topics will be consideration of how the Romantic view that one may be an exile even representations of the supernatural – witches, ghosts, in one’s own country. The module examines major devils – could be in tension with Christian religious works by Austen, Byron, Voltaire, Wollstonecraft, belief to the point where such representations Shelley and Keats, as well as lesser-known texts, might be held to be irreligious or atheistic, and to build up a detailed view of 18th century and how great imaginative writers such as Marlowe, Romantic literary culture. We will explore themes Shakespeare and Milton combine, or fail to combine, such as nation, empire, slavery, identity and orthodox religious belief with representation of the literature’s evolving role in mediating between supernatural. Some of the greatest works of English the self and the wider world. literature are covered in the module: Doctor Faustus, African Narratives Moving across genre and medium, this module Macbeth, and Paradise Lost. introduces you to the range and dynamism of Imperial Inspired by the rich, varied and often empowering narratives produced by African authors from Encounters: The global visions which characterised Victorian 1960 to today. You will explore the ways in which Victorians and culture and society, this module examines popular literary texts – from short stories to film, memoir their World and canonical literature from a period which saw to poetry, novels to Twitter fictions – engage with Britain establish itself as the world’s most expansive and navigate identities, geographies and their nation, dominating the planet in an unprecedented modes of production. Particular emphasis will be manner. The module ranges across 19th century placed on the spaces of literary production through literary forms and genres, and we will address which texts emerge and circulate – from small themes and issues such as island ship-wrecks, magazines to film festivals, blogs to literary prizes – treasure-hunting and piracy, time-space compression, making this module particularly suitable for those muscular Christianity, primitivism and savagery, of you interested in a career in publishing or the human-animal interaction, work and war, and creative industries. oriental exoticism. As a result we will consider Female Screens: In the wake of the Weinstein scandal and the Victorian ideas about race, gender, sexuality, class, Representation, controversial Time’s Up movement, this module will religion, science and technology, environmentalism, Agency and enable you to engage directly with urgent questions colonisation and globalisation. Authorship of gender, power and representation in screen Harlem and After: Taking as its point of departure the landmark media. It explores women and British and American African American special issue of Survey Graphic that announced screens from the silent era to contemporary media Literature the arrival on the artistic and intellectual scene of industries, critically examining women’s roles both 1925-present the ‘New Negro’ (1925), this module provides an on and behind the screen. You will consider how historical survey of African American writing, 1925 women as both creators and subjects of the cinematic to present. Focusing on African American literary and televisual gaze have navigated challenges of contributions to the novel, short fiction, essay, poetry, representation and creative agency, looking at drama and the graphic novel, the module showcases case studies that range from Lois Weber’s silent the range and diversity of African American film work to Beyoncé Knowles’ 2016 visual album literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through Lemonade. You will encounter chronological case close readings of works by canonical, recovered and studies of filmmakers, showrunners and female- emerging writers, it encourages you to situate these centred narratives within their respective cultural and texts within their historical, social, political and industrial contexts, and interrogate interconnected literary contexts. questions of age, ethnicity, and sexuality through a range of classical and cutting-edge critical writings. 27

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poetry and politics over the last two centuries Literature and in literature, assessing the way human identity is EXETER through a uniquely reverse chronological approach. Interspecies constructed through its difference from animality, Beginning with contemporary poetry and working Relations how animals are figuratively used to represent human back episodically through the 20th and 19th characteristics and concerns, and how the place of centuries, we will consider how poetry engages animals in human culture is debated. We will begin with broad sites of political tension and movement with ancient texts by Aesop, Ovid and Apuleius including gender, sexuality, class, and race, but we before examining animals from Shakespeare to the will also situate poetry within its particular political 21st century. Our investigations will be built around and historic framework, asking how this interacts animal species of key cultural significance: the with more literary considerations including form, donkey, the horse, the great apes, the nightingale, the address, and reception. The module will work back dog and the tiger. Through them we will consider through history towards the Peterloo Massacre of literature’s imaginative response to animals as beasts 1819 and the French Revolution, treating them as of burden, as close relations, as poetic voices, as points of literary, political, and historical focus. companions, and as avatars of the wild. ‘Reader, I This module explores the history of the most Writing for This module requires you to analyse a wide-range Married Him’: commercially successful and least critically Children and of narrative techniques evident in contemporary The Evolution of respectable of genres, the romance novel. While Young Adults children’s books (from picture books through to Romance Fiction romance only took on its modern form in the 1930s, young adult fiction), and to examine the ever- from 1740 to the romance writers have always drawn upon the models changing demands and ethics of the children’s Present provided by older fictions. This module maps out publishing world. Through writing exercises, the historical links which connect Richardson, peer review and a combination of formative and Austen, and the Brontës to their modern imitators summative tasks, you will gain knowledge about and successors, investigating what has been the children’s publishing industry while developing changed, gained and lost along the way, in order to your own unique writing style. uncover how and why the popular love story has come to occupy such a controversial place within contemporary fiction. Something to See: This module investigates the dynamic connection War and Visual between visual media and industrialised warfare. Media It presents the opportunity to interrogate how visual media shape the ways war is understood, remembered and experienced. It draws together aspects of film, history, sociology and visual culture to critically examine both fictional and non-fictional representations of warfare, and to identify the blurred boundaries between the two. Starting with photography and film in early industrialised wars, and moving on to television, digital media and videogames, you’ll learn about the evolution of visual conventions of representing combat, and study their relationship to political, cultural and ideological contexts. 28 LEARNING AND TEACHING IN EXETER

The nature of learning at university involves FILM, AUDIO ACADEMIC SUPPORT considerable self-guided study and research. AND OTHER MEDIA You will have access to an academic tutor You will be taught through a combination who is available for advice and support of lectures and discussion-based seminars. We use a range of film, video, audio and throughout your studies. There are also a We also support the development of team- other media to aid study of printed texts number of services on campus where you can based learning by organising students into and other forms of cultural production. get advice and information, including the study groups, and we make full use of both The Streatham Campus is home to The Students’ Guild Advice Unit. You can find traditional learning resources and our virtual Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, which further information about all the services in learning environment. Lecturers and tutors contains an enormous collection relating the University’s undergraduate prospectus or are all available to provide further support in to the history of film and visual media. online at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate one-to-one consultations. Our libraries have extensive audio-visual collections as well as the Chris Brooks ◆ Most of your work will be done in group collection, which contains more than 10,000 STUDY ABROAD and self-directed study: reading or viewing works of primary and secondary source Studying for either the three-year BA module material, writing essays or preparing Victorian material. English with Study in North America or for your seminars. Active participation in the four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ degree seminars develops important transferable OTHER OPPORTUNITIES at Exeter offers you the exciting possibility skills such as good verbal and visual We provide an exciting range of special of spending a year abroad. With Study communication and effective interaction Abroad, you could learn a new language with other people. You will also develop lectures and seminars on both campuses by visiting academics and renowned writers, and experience different cultures, become a range of professional abilities, such as more self-confident and widen your circle time management and team working, actors and film directors. In addition to your academic work, the student-run English of friends. You could also get the chance plus valuable critical, analytical and to specialise in areas that aren’t available in communication skills. Society organises book and poetry readings, film screenings and social events, providing Exeter, and when it comes to a career, your skills and knowledge of another country INNOVATIVE LEARNING an opportunity to meet students who share a love of literature, culture and the arts. will prove valuable to many employers. We are actively engaged in introducing new Students from the English department are This programme is available equally to methods of learning and teaching, including always active on the University student international students coming to study the increasing use of interactive computer- newspapers, radio and TV station and in the at Exeter. based approaches to learning. Through our University’s drama groups. Further details about study abroad and virtual learning environment you can access our partner institutions can be found at detailed information about modules and RESEARCH-INSPIRED www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/studyabroad learning outcomes, and interact through TEACHING activities such as discussion forums. EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE We believe that every student benefits You will also have access to online from being part of a culture that is inspired IN THE UK OR ABROAD subscription databases and websites, such by research and where modules are Spending up to a year carrying out a as Early English Books Online (EEBO), taught by experts who contribute to the graduate-level work placement or placements Eighteenth Century Collections Online latest developments in their field. This is as part of your degree programme is a (ECCO), MLA FirstSearch and JSTOR. particularly important in the final year of valuable opportunity. This unlocks a world of Technical skills will include accurate your studies, where modules will give you the experience, allowing you to develop essential notetaking from presentations, research and most up-to-date research ideas and debates employability and interpersonal skills that IT skills. You’ll also learn subject-specific in the discipline. The work of our academic relate to your degree and future career. You skills, such as constructive self-criticism. staff is of the highest quality with English will take full responsibility for finding and

ranked 4th▲ in the UK for research power in organising your placement (either in the English . UK or abroad), with preparation, support and approval from the University. This is a great way to demonstrate to employers your adaptability, cultural awareness, independence and resourcefulness.

▲ Times Higher Education research power ranking based on Research Excellence Framework 2014. ¿ In order to be eligible for our ‘with Study Abroad’ programmes you will need to attain an average of 60 per cent or more in your first year. 29 EXETER TAKING MODULES OUTSIDE OF YOUR PROGRAMME Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or widen your intellectual horizons. If you achieve at least 60 credits in a language via our Foreign Language Centre you may be able to have the words ‘with proficiency in’ and the language added to your degree title. Further details about the FLC can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/flc DIGITAL HUMANITIES LAB As Digital Humanities is increasingly important in all areas of humanities research, we have invested £1.2 million in a state- of-the-art lab and research space for the examination and preservation of important historical, literary and visual artefacts. The Digital Humanities lab allows you to use cutting edge equipment to find out more about our cultural heritage and creative past and share your discoveries with your peers. In the space, you will have the opportunity to curate digital exhibitions, carry out 2D and 3D digitisation, create professional quality video/audio recordings, and participate in exciting research projects that utilise data in innovative new ways. ASSESSMENT You will be assessed in a variety of ways but primarily through exams and coursework. Coursework includes essays, a dissertation and presentation work. Your first year doesn’t count towards your final degree classification, but you do have to pass it in order to progress. Further details of the assessment for each module are available in at the undergraduate section of our website www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english

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RECENT GRADUATES RECENT GRADUATES ARE NOW WORKING FOR▲: ARE NOW WORKING AS▲:    Oxford  KPMG Arts and Culture Copywriter University Press Administrator   House of Commons Education Officer   Advertising Account BBC  HarperCollins UK  Journalist Executive  Warp Films   Barclays Marketing Executive  Assistant Editor  Oxfam  Book Reviews Editor ▲ This information has been taken from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) Surveys 2015/16. Please note that, due to data protection, the job titles and organisations are listed independently and do not necessarily correspond.

CAREERS SERVICES We have a dedicated, award-winning Careers Service, with offices at our Exeter and Penryn campuses, ensuring you have access to careers advisors, mentors and the tools you need to succeed in finding employment in your chosen field on graduation. We offer the Exeter Award and the Exeter Leaders Award which include employability-related workshops, skills events, volunteering and employment which will contribute to your career decision- making skills and success in the employment market. Our graduates compete very successfully in the employment market, with many employers targeting the University when recruiting new graduates. For further information about our Careers Service please visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/careers

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS English graduates from the University of Exeter benefit from a degree which is internationally recognised and compete very successfully in the employment market. Graduating with a degree in English will put you in a great position to succeed in a range of different careers. Oral and written communication is at the heart of our programme and you will learn to present your ideas in a range of formats. You will also develop strong research and analytical skills and the ability to problem solve and make informed decisions. Through a balance of independent study and teamwork you will learn to manage your time and workload effectively.

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In all three years here, I’ve found Exeter’s English course to be extraordinarily diverse, as well as flexible. For me, the opportunity to take modules from the film department has been especially valued. The English modules have also been great. Every year the options broaden in number and narrow in focus. It’s also exciting; you can design your third year to fit with your own interests, or explore some really niche areas of research that staff members truly care about. There are always a million things going on around campus: socials, celebrations, farmer’s markets and live music to name a few! And the English department itself makes a special effort to offer extra-curricular opportunities like guest lectures, poetry nights, film screenings and talks. Callia, studying BA English (Streatham) 32 KEY INFORMATION AT A GLANCE

PENRYN CAMPUS, CORNWALL UCAS TYPICAL OFFER CODE

BA Single Honours English Q301 ABB-BBB; IB: 32-30; BTEC: DDM

English with Study Abroad^/ Q314/ ABB-BBB; IB: 32-30; with Employment Experience/ Q315/ BTEC: DDM with Employment Experience Abroad Q316

BA Joint Honours QVH1 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32; English and History BTEC: DDD-DDM

AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32; English and History with Study Abroad^/ QV3D/ BTEC: DDD-DDM with Employment Experience/ QV4D/ with Employment Experience Abroad QV5D

BA Combined Honours Flexible Combined Honours/ Y003/ A*AA-ABB; IB: 38-32; with Study Abroad^/ Y012/ BTEC: D*DD-DDM with UK Work Experience/ Y009/ with Work Abroad/ Y011/ with Study and Work Abroad Y013

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We make every effort to ensure that entry requirements are up-to-date in our printed literature. However, because brochures are produced well in advance, our entry requirements and offers may be subject to change. For up-to-date details on entry requirements and programme specifics, please see our English pages at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english We strongly advise that you check current requirements before attending an Open Day or making your application. Some programmes require prior study of specific subjects and may also have minimum grade requirements at GCSE or equivalent, particularly in English Language and/or Mathematics. International students If you are an international student, you should consult our general and subject specific entry requirements information for A levels and the International Baccalaureate. However, the University also recognises a wide range of international qualifications. You can find further information about academic and English language entry requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/international

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STREATHAM CAMPUS, EXETER UCAS TYPICAL OFFER Applying to study Combined Honours CODE with Modern Languages BA Single Honours Q300 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; When applying to a Combined Honours degree with a English BTEC: DDD modern language you will need to indicate, under ‘further English with Study Abroad^/ Q313/ AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; details’ in the ‘choices’ section of the application, the language with Employment Experience/ Q315/ BTEC: DDD you wish to study using the codes in the table. Please note with Employment Experience Abroad Q316 you may choose only one language. For further information English with Study in North America Q310 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34; on completing your UCAS form, please visit www.ucas.com BTEC: D*DD-DDD and for more information on language requirements for our Combined Honours degrees go to www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/ BA Combined Honours QV33 Art History & Visual Culture and English AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; languages BTEC: DDD SELECTING YOUR CHOSEN LANGUAGE Art History & Visual Culture and English QV34/ AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; CODE SUBJECT REQUIRED SUBJECTS with Study Abroad^/ QV32/ BTEC: DDD with Employment Experience/ Fren French For the Beginners’ route: QV35 with Employment Experience Abroad GSCE in a modern foreign language Chin Chinese QQ3V AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; grade B or 5. Classical Studies and English (Mandarin) BTEC: DDD Germ German For the Advanced route: Classical Studies and English with QQ4V/ AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; GCE AL in a modern foreign language Study Abroad^/ Ital Italian QQ5V/ BTEC: DDD (French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish) with Employment Experience/ QQ6V Port Portuguese grade B; IB modern foreign language (French, with Employment Experience Abroad German, Italian, Russian or Spanish) HL5. English and Drama WQ34 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; Russ Russian BTEC: DDD Span Spanish English and Drama with Study Abroad^/ WQ35/ AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34; with Employment Experience/ WQ36/ BTEC: DDD with Employment Experience Abroad WQ37 Language requirements for Combined Honours with English and Film Studies Q3W6 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32; Modern Languages BTEC: DDD-DDM  Grade B or 5 at GCSE in any modern foreign language English and Film Studies with Q3W7/ AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32; is all that is required to study any of our seven languages Study Abroad^/ Q3W8/ BTEC: DDD-DDM on the Beginners’ route as part of a Combined Honours with Employment Experience/ Q3W9 with Employment Experience Abroad degree  English and Modern Languages QR06 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32; Grade B at A level is required in any language you intend BTEC: DDD-DDM to study from A level Flexible Combined Honours/ Y004/ A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34;  ^ Y006/ BTEC: D*DD-DDD You may only choose one language with Study Abroad / Y007/ with UK Work Experience/  Students pursuing language study on the basis of a with Work Abroad/ Y008/ with Study and Work Abroad Y014 GCSE are normally classed as Beginners  French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish can be STREATHAM CAMPUS, EXETER studied from A level or Beginners level, with both cohorts reaching degree level in the final year Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english  www.exeter.ac.uk/enquiry Chinese and Portuguese can normally only be studied from Beginners level with students reaching degree level Phone: 0300 555 60 60 (UK callers) in the final year +44 (0)1392 723044 (EU/International callers) THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

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