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Modules

Year 1

Our first-year core modules are designed as an introduction. This means that we will build everyone's knowledge to the same level, so you can progress through to year two.

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

Core American Studies modules (60 credits) – you will be introduced to key themes and issues in American literature, covering major authors, texts and literary movements from the early 1800s to the present day. You will also take a multidisciplinary module that explores the literature, film and culture of Canada
Optional English modules (60 credits) – choose three modules
You must pass year one, but it does not count towards your final degree classification.

Core American Studies modules

• From Landscapes to Mixtapes: Canadian Literature, Film and Culture
• American Literature and Culture 1: 1830-1940
• American Literature and Culture 2: Since 1940

English modules

• Your module choices in your first year will form the basis of your academic study across three main areas of study in the School of English.

You are able to choose any three of the following four modules during your first year. These modules will give you firm foundations to pursue three areas of study in your second and final year.

English Language and Applied Linguistics
Studying Language
Literature, 1500 to the Present
Studying Literature
Medieval Languages and Literatures
Beginnings of English
Drama and Performance
Drama, Theatre, Performance
Year 2

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

Core American Studies modules (20 credits) – you can choose from two key modules: North American Regions, which draws on literature, film and television to examine regional identities, or Key Texts in American Social and Political Thought, which explores debates about religion, race, class, capitalism, gender, sexuality and war in different periods
Optional modules (100 credits) – choose two optional modules from American Studies and three from English
You must pass year two, which counts 33% towards your final degree classification.

Core American Studies modules
North American Regions
Or:

Key Texts in American Social and Political Thought
Optional American Studies modules
You will choose two optional modules from American Studies.

• Contemporary North American Fiction
• African American History and Culture
• American Radicalism
• The US and the World in the American Century: US Foreign Policy 1898-2008
• American Violence: A History
• Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
• The American Pop Century
• America's Borders: Culture at the Limits
• Business in American Culture

Optional English modules
Depending on your module choices in your first year, you will choose three modules That cover at least two of the following areas:

Literature, 1500 to the Present

• From Talking Horses to Romantic Revolutionaries: Literature 1700-1830
• Literature and Popular Culture
• Modern and Contemporary Literature
• Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Page
• Texts Across Time
• Victorian and Fin de Siècle Literature: 1830-1910

English Language and Applied Linguistics

• Language in Society
• The Psychology of Bilingualism and Language Learning
• Texts Across Time
• Language Development
• Literary Linguistics

Medieval Languages and Literatures

• Chaucer and his Contemporaries
• Old English: Reflection and Lament
• Ice and Fire: Myths and Heroes of the North
• Names and Identities

Drama and Performance

• Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Stage
• Stanislavski to Stelarc: Performance Practice and Theory
• Twentieth-Century Plays

Year aboard (optional)

You can apply to spend your third year studying in North America, transferring to a four-year course and returning to Nottingham for your final year to complete your course.

This is not compulsory – if you choose not to study abroad, you will complete your degree in three years. Eligibility for study abroad is dependent on satisfactory performance in your first year and the availability of places.

“My year abroad was the absolute highlight of the whole course. I did four months in Montreal and then four months in Berlin. As soon as I meet a new employer, they always see it on my CV and ask questions. It’s the greatest thing to have, because you could talk to someone about it for the whole interview and really impress them!” - Aodhbha Bassani, 2020 American and Canadian Studies (Study Abroad) BA graduate

If you do choose to take a year abroad, the benefits are varied. From travelling, to making new friends, to experiencing first-hand the culture you’re studying, you will build important life-long skills. Our returning students have often gained in:

• independence
• confidence
• adaptability
• self-awareness
• cultural awareness and understanding

Year 3 or year 4 if taking a year aboard

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

Compulsory core modules (minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits) – you will complete a research dissertation
Optional modules (minimum of 80 and a maximum of 100 credits) – a range of options are available, covering aspects of North American and English literatures, cultures and histories
You must pass year four, which counts 67% towards your final degree classification.

Core modules
Dissertation in American and Canadian Studies
Or:

English Dissertation: Full Year
Optional American Studies modules

• Prohibition America
• Ethnic and New Immigrant Writing
• Popular Music Cultures and Countercultures
• Recent Queer Writing
• A History of the Civil Rights Movement
• American Madness: Mental Illness in History and Culture
• US Foreign Policy, 1989 - present
• Varieties of Classic American Film, Television and Literature since 1950
• North American Film Adaptations
• Sexuality in American History
• The Special Relationship, Spit and Slavery- Britain and the US 1776-1877
• Troubled Empire: The Projection of American Global Power from Pearl Harbor to Covid-19

Optional English modules
Depending on your module choices in your first and second year, you will choose three modules that cover at least two areas of study:

Literature, 1500 to the Present

• The Self and the World: Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Contemporary Fiction
• Making Something Happen: 20th Century Poetry and Politics
• Single-Author Study
• The Gothic Tradition
• Island and Empire
• Oscar Wilde and Henry James: British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture
• Modern Irish Literature and Drama
• Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688
• Songs and Sonnets: Lyric poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne
• One and Unequal: World Literatures in English

English Language and Applied Linguistics

• Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Advanced Stylistics
• Language and Feminism
• Language and the Mind

Medieval Languages and Literature

• English Place-Names
• Dreaming the Middle Ages: Visionary Poetry in Scotland and England
• Old English Heroic Poetry
• The Viking Mind
• Songs and Sonnets: Lyric poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne

Drama and Performance

• Modern Irish Literature and Drama
• Performing the Nation: British Theatre since 1980
• Changing Stages: Theatre Industry and Theatre Art
• Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688