Course summary

This programme enables you to develop analytical skills by exploring a diverse range of texts, including novels, poems, plays, films, images and graphic novels. You will look at how meaning is created through language and form and at relationships between texts and contemporary cultural issues. Teaching is usually over three terms of ten weeks, each with a weekly attendance of two days a week. You will normally study two modules, worth 20 credits, each term (plus a dissertation worth 40 credits in the third year). Teaching will involve lectures, guest speakers, small group sessions or seminars, tutorials, workshops, theatre and cinema and field trips. The list below indicates the modules that make up the programme. Year 1 (level 4) modules Higher learning skills Myth and Criticism Genre The Evolution of Western Society Reading the Visual Children’s Literature OR Creative Writing Year 2 (level 5) modules Preparation for Work and Research Medieval Life and Literature The Renaissance Madness, Trauma and Culture Revolution and Reaction Children’s Literature OR Creative Writing Year 3 (level 6) modules Dissertation (40 credits) Victorians and Victorianism Global Literature and Culture Contemporary Literature and Culture Dystopian Fiction If you have any specific questions about this course, please contact Dr Liz Bellamy - Course Leader BA (Hons) English, email: [email protected] The honours degrees and foundation degrees offered at City College Norwich are awarded by the University of East Anglia (UEA) with whom we enjoy Associate College Status. This partnership means that you will graduate with a UEA degree and be able to access facilities at the UEA while you are studying with us.

Course details