Year 1

In your first year, you will explore key texts, as well as taking modules that will give you a foundation in the study of literature and the practice of creative writing.

Core modules

• Writing Matters
• The Novel Around the World
• Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 1
• Reading Poetry
• Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 2

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year 2

You will have the opportunity to discover literature from the Middle Ages and early modern periods, and to explore the literary and theoretical movements that have shaped contemporary literary studies, as you refine your skills on our advanced creative writing modules.

Core modules

• Using Stories
• Critical Perspectives 1
• Advanced Creative Writing Skills

Option modules

Choose one option module from:

• Romantic Literature from Blake to Shelley
• Eighteenth-Century Literature from Restoration to Revolution

Then choose one option module from:

• Modern Literature from Heart of Darkness to Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Rewriting Britain from Windrush to Now

Finally choose one option module from:

• English and Arts Journalism
• Diversifying Publishing and the Literature Industry
• English and Education
• Critical Perspectives 2

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year Abroad (optional)

We’ll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.

Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur – you will find the experience invaluable.

For more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.

Please note

• A year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See the Fees and Funding tab of this page for details.
• You may be eligible for a travel grant from Student Finance England.
• Places are offered on a competitive basis, and eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2.
• Language courses, at beginners or advanced level, are available through our Languages at Leicester scheme.

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year

You will choose from a range of modules focusing on various facets of English and Creative Writing, allowing you to specialise in areas of particular interest to you. From Victorian to postmodern literature, your final year will be the capstone of your studies. 

Choose one module from:

• Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A 

Then choose two modules from:

• Adolescence in American Fiction and Film
• Forms of Modern Poetry
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Writing Voices
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• Writing Prose Fiction
• Clinical Encounters?
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture

Then choose two modules from:

• Queering the Renaissance
• Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
• Weird Fiction/ Weird Film
• Autobiography and American Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• The Other in American Fiction and Film
• The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
• Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
• Tragedy
• Writing for Laughs
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution
• Life and Fate: Russian Literature from Pushkin to Grossman
• Medieval Worlds
• Reading and Writing Climate Change Fiction

Plus your Dissertation (English)

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.