Modern Languages and English (Arabic)
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Year 1
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
Compulsory Modules
All students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ARAB1001 | Beginning Arabic 1 | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARAB1002 | Beginning Arabic 2 | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | PFP |
ARAB1171 | Studying the Middle East and North Africa | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year 2
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
Compulsory Modules
At Level 2, students must study 120 credits. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in English and a minimum of 60 credits in Arabic. The remaining 20 credits may be taken as optional modules in either English or Arabic, or as discovery modules. Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ARAB2010 | Advanced Arabic Grammar and Translation | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2020 | Essential Skills in Practical Arabic | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
ENGL2030 | Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2045 | Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional Modules
Students must take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ARAB2015 | The Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARAB2091 | Arab Media, Politics and Society | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2181 | Cultures of the Arab Middle East and North Africa | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARAB2190 | Global Jihad: From the Taliban to ISIS | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2310 | Modern Middle Eastern History | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules (Baskets 1-4).
Basket 1:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 3:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL2095 | Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2096 | The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 4:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2080 | Contemporary Literature | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL2015 | Black Europe | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2070 | Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
MODL2250 | Digital Communications Across Cultures | 20 | Not running in 202425 |
Discovery Modules
Students may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Year 3
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
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Compulsory Modules
Students will be required to study the following compulsory module
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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MODL9500 | LCS Year Abroad | 120 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Year 4
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
Compulsory Modules
Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each subject. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ARAB3020 | Advanced Skills in Arabic Language | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Optional Modules
Students will be required to study ONE of the following compulsory Final Year Project modules
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
MODL3300 | Final Year Project: Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
MODL3340 | Final Year Project: Extended Translation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Students who take their FYP in English are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules:
Students who take their FYP in Arabic may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules:
- The Quran and Hadith - 20 Credits
- [Title to be defined: module about cinemas and audio-visual cultures in the Middle East and North Africa] - 20 Credits
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ARAB3072 | Islam and Modernity | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARAB3110 | Middle Eastern Politics: Regimes, Societies and Conflict | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARAB3888 | Advanced Media Arabic: Translation Skills in Text Typology | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).
Students who take their FYP in Arabic are required to take 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).
Basket 1:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL3031 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3033 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3034 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3059 | South African Writing: Apartheid and After | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3062 | Charles Dickens Then & Now | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3063 | Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3163 | Milton | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3579 | Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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ENGL3006 | Remixing the Renaissance | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3008 | Writing Modern Sexualities | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3061 | Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3066 | The Public Poet (Creative Writing) | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3100 | Digital Englishes | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3391 | September 11 in Fact and Fiction | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3407 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3461 | Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
All students may choose to take 20 credits of the following optional modules:
Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
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MODL3200 | Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3410 | Contemporary World Literature | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3600 | Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3620 | Decolonial Approaches | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery Modules
Students may choose to take 20 credits of discovery modules.