Introduction to English Literature 1

This module gives outlines history of English Literature from the Anglo- Saxon period to the end of the eighteenth century. It uses a selection of texts taken from volume 1 of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, supplemented by handouts, to give you examples of different literary forms belonging to every period of English literary history prior to the Romantic movement. The juxtaposition of pieces by well-known authors such as Chaucer, Marlowe, Milton and Swift with less familiar texts is intended to encourage reflection upon what constitutes the 'canon'. You are expected to acquire a basic knowledge of the terms used in English literary history ('Medieval', 'Tudor', 'Renaissance', 'Reformation', 'Early Modern', 'Restoration', 'Augustan', 'Neoclassical', 'Enlightenment', 'Sensibility') and are encouraged to think critically about these terms.

Introduction to English Literature 2

This module follows on from English Literature 1 and gives you outline knowledge of the history of English Literature from the Romantic period to the present. It uses a selection of texts taken from volume 2 of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, supplemented by handouts, to give you examples of different literary forms belonging to every period of English literary history since 1789. The juxtaposition of pieces by well-known authors such as Blake, Tennyson, Conrad, Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Achebe with less familiar texts is intended to encourage reflection upon what constitutes the 'canon'. You are expected to acquire a basic knowledge of the terms used for English literary history since 1789 ('Romantic', 'Victorian', 'Modernist', 'Postmodernist', 'Postcolonial') and are encouraged to think critically about these terms.

Ways of Reading

This module introduces you to studying English Literature at University and also provides opportunities for you to develop skills such as reading critically and communicating clearly. The first semester offers an overview of the degree structure and an examination of some key critical terms, problems and approaches that concern you of English Literature, including, for example: the literary canon and value; genre; the production of meaning; relationships between literature, history and the world; selected approaches to literature, including formalist, new historicist, feminist, postcolonial and queer criticism, and relationships between literature and identity.

Ancient Philosophy

This module will give you a historical overview of key ideas and events that have shaped what we have come to think of as 'Western civilisation'. In the course of this module we explore influential philosophical, political, religious and scientific ideas, and map the social and political changes that make up Western identity, in the period from the Reformation to the early 20th C. The emphasis is on an integrated approach to historical context and the spread and change of ideas. Through a selection of original sources and secondary readings you are introduced to and encouraged to think critically about these events and ideas and your role in shaping our past, present and future.

Western Civilisation 1: Antiquity to the Renaissance

This module will give you a historical overview of key ideas and events that have shaped what we have come to think of as 'Western civilisation'. In the course of this module we explore influential philosophical, political, religious and scientific ideas, and map the social and political changes that make up Western identity, from the classical period to the Renaissance. The emphasis is on an integrated approach to historical context and the spread and change of ideas. Through a selection of original sources and secondary readings you are introduced to and encouraged to think critically about these events and ideas and your role in shaping our past, present and future.

Western Civilisation 2: Reformation to the Modern Age

This module will give you a historical overview of key ideas and events that have shaped what we have come to think of as 'Western civilisation'. In the course of this module we explore influential philosophical, political, religious and scientific ideas, and map the social and political changes that make up Western identity, in the period from the Reformation to the early 20th C. The emphasis is on an integrated approach to historical context and the spread and change of ideas. Through a selection of original sources and secondary readings you are introduced to and encouraged to think critically about these events and ideas and your role in shaping our past, present and future.

Ethics

Applied Ethics

Philosophy of Art

Existence and Authenticity

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Major Project in Philosophy or English

Autobiography

Enlightenment and Modernity

Meanings of Life

Introduction to English Literature 2 (Recommended)

Anglia Language Programme

Major Project

Varieties of Scepticism

Philosophical Texts

Good and Evil

Philosophy of Religion

Modernism and the City

Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality

Special Topic 2 (currently Theorising Children's Literature)

After the Deluge: Writing, Film, Culture and Society Since 1945

Contemporary Fiction

Modern Science Fiction

Synoptic Course Review

Anglia Language Programme