Literature
Dive in to the world of literature and explore writing from challenging perspectives.
Explore novels, plays, poetry and stories from around the globe. Learn about authors and their worlds, and question the meaning of their words for audiences of the past and of today. These modules with broaden your cultural understanding, challenge your skills in interpretation, and fire your imagination.
Literature modules
25 modules available
This information is for the 2024/25 academic year.
IF YOU ARE AN INCOMING YEAR ONE STUDENT, YOU SHOULD ONLY CHOOSE LEVEL 1 MODULES.
| Module Code | Module Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| CLAS1100 | Ancient Lives | 1 |
| CLAS1300 | The Greek World: an Introduction | 1 |
| CLAS1615 | Greek Poets | 1 |
| CLAS1625 | Roman Poets | 1 |
| ENGL1221 | Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation | 1 |
| ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 1 |
| ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 1 |
| FOAH1100 | Creative Africas: Culture and the Arts in Modern Africa | 1 |
| FREN1020 | Introduction to French Studies (Resistance and Desire) | 1 |
| ITAL1025 | Exploring Italy: Introduction to Italian Culture and Society | 1 |
| ITAL1034 | Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: An Introduction | 1 |
| ITAL1040 | Italy from Fascism to the Present | 1 |
| MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 1 |
| THEO1133 | Introduction to Christian Theology | 1 |
| CLAS2350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 2 |
| CLAS2410 | Roman Comedy | 2 |
| CLAS2460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 2 |
| CLAS2700 | Homer's Iliad | 2 |
| CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 3 |
| CLAS3460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 3 |
| ENGL3063 | Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions | 3 |
| ENGL3268 | Transformations | 3 |
| ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 3 |
| FOAH3001 | Global African Writing | 3 |
| MODL3200 | Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | 3 |