Summary Course Outline

First Year - A total of 120 credits to include:

• Issues in World Literatures (20 credits)
• Encountering Texts (20 credits)
• Ancestral Voices (20 credits)

plus 60 credits of modules from:

• Rewritings and Revisioning Texts (20 credits)
• Contemporary Writing (20 credits)
• American Literature and Drama (20 credits)
• Greek and Roman Epic Drama (20 credits)
• History of Greek and Roman Ideas (20 credits)
• Modules offered by other departments

Second Year - A total of 120 credits to include:

• Postcolonial Literatures: Perspectives and Paradigms
• Reading Theory/Reading Text 1

Plus at least two of the following:

• Medieval and Renaissance Writing (20 credits)
• Restoration and eighteenth-century Writing (20 credits)
• Nineteenth-century Literature (20 credits)
• Twentieth-century British Literature (20 credits)

Plus two 20-credit English and World Literature option modules.

Third Year - A total of 120 credits to include:

• Reading Theory/Reading Text 2: World Literatures (30 credits)
• The Dissertation (30 credits)

Plus two 30-credit English and World Literature options.

(New options are always being developed.  For full details of these and other departmental options see the Module Database)