Liberal Arts (BA)

Year 1 Core and Compulsory Modules

• Production of the Human: Decolonising the Canon

• Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques

Year 2 Core Module

• Connecting the Arts

Indicative English, Theatre and Creative Writing Option Modules

• Adaptations: Theories and Practices in Contemporary Performance

• America Rewired: US Literature and Culture since the 1960s

• American Centuries: Literatures of Slavery and Freedom

• Biography and Autobiography

• Blake

• Critically Queer

• Ecopoetics

• Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Drama

• Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Poetry

• European Drama and Theatre: Gods, Ideas and Adaptations

• Fin-De-Siecle

• Finding a Leg to Stand On: Clinical, Critical and Creative Approaches to the Human Body

• Flight Paths: Migration, Diaspora and Identity

• Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)

• Literature and Cultural Identity: Intersectionalities of Race, Class and Gender

• Literature and the Politics of Feelings

• Literature and Visual Culture

• Literature, Empire and Race

• Making the Medieval Human

• Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul

• Medieval and Renaissance Literatures

• Medieval Realms

• Modernism and its Others

• Narratives of the Body

• Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I)

• Poetry and Power: Text, Voice, Song

• Poetry Workshop 1

• Poetry Workshop 2: The Open Page

• Reading 21st Century Fictions

• Reading Literature

• Responding to Animals: Adam to the Zoo

• Romance

• Romanticism: Reason, Revolution, Imagination

• Science Fiction

• Shakespeare

• The Creative Critical Seam

• The Cultural Production of Space

• The Global Eighteenth Century

• The Novel: Writing the Modern World

• The Victorians and their World

• Theatre Languages

• Theories of Theatricality and Performance

• Tragedy

• Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity

• Writing London

Indicative Geography Option Modules

• Anthropology of Space, Architecture and the Landscape (Level 6)

• Critical Race Studies: Understanding Asian and Black Experiences in Britain

• Culture and Development

• European Society, Economy and Geography

• Geographies of Revolt: Movements, Uprisings, and Social Transformation (Level 5)

• Globalization in the Contemporary World

• Material Culture, Consumption and the Construction of Self (Level 5)

• Social Inequalities and Diversities

• The Politics of Race and Diaspora

Indicative History, Classics and Archaeology Option Modules

• Archaeology of the Everyday

• Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory

• Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453 (level 5)

• Britannia's Embrace: The British Empire and the World

• Contested Nation: Germany, 1871-1918 (level 5)

• Crime, Poverty and Protest in England and Beyond, 1500-1800

• Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today

• Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room

• From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries

• Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context

• Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918

• Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture

• Late Medieval and Early Modern London: Community, Politics and Religion

• Literature, Culture and Society 1914-1945

• Political and Social Change in the Middle East since 1918 (level 5)

• Sexuality, Society and the State in Britain, 1914-2000

• Space, Architecture and Landscapes of the Middle Ages

• The Ancient World

• The Archaeology of Greece and Rome

• The Athenian Empire

• The Colonial Gaze: Western Perceptions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1600-1960

• The Contemporary World

• The Early Modern World, 1500-1800: Reformations and Revolutions

• The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans

• The Modern World

• The Reconstruction of Europe, 1945-1950 (level 5)

• Work and Play in Early Modern Britain (level 5)

Indicative History of Art Option Modules

• Art and Society Between 1900 and the Present

• Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century

• Art History: A Survey

• Debates in Art History

• Impressionist Paris: Modernity and Difference

• Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)

• Post-War Art and the Politics of Memory, From the 1960s to the Present

• The Immigrant Experience in Modern British Art

Indicative Languages and Cultures Option Modules

• French 1

• Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)

• Japanese 1

• Reading Transnational Cultures

• Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality

• Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds

• The Latin American Novel

• Understanding Culture: Language and Texts

Indicative Media and Cultural Studies Option Modules

• Cultural Identity and the Media

• Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

• Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)

• Introduction to Cinema

• Introduction to Digital Culture

• Media, Technology and Culture

• Memory and Media

Indicative Politics Option Modules

• British and comparative foreign policy analysis

• Capitalism and the Politics of Markets

• Challenges in Contemporary Politics

• Comparative Studies of Islamist Movements

• Contemporary British Politics

• Food, Politics and Society

• Governing by Numbers

• International Migration and Transnationalism

• Introduction to Global Politics

• Introduction to International Political Economy

• Politics and the Middle East

• Politics, Power and Human Nature

• Social and Political Theory

• Surveying Political Research

• The Politics of European Integration

• Transformations in Modern Politics: Democracy, Conflict and Globalisation

• War and Modern Society

BA Liberal Arts Dissertation

• BA Liberal Arts Dissertation