Diversity in undergraduate modules

The School of English acknowledges calls for reading lists that contain more women, black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, and supports the demand for greater diversity in the curriculum.

Honours modules

Here you will find further details about honours options and diversity. This information has been divided into three groups, reflecting the different degrees to which and ways that individual modules engage with diverse writers and themes of gender or racial equality.

Not every module runs every year, and the School reserves the right to withdraw modules as circumstances dictate. Information about the range of honours options available in a given year will be circulated in the Honours Choices booklet.

Single Honours students complete eight modules in their third and fourth year of study (typically two per semester). To encourage a wide spectrum of view, the School asks single Honours students to take at least one module each from three period specific groupings - Medieval (Group A), Renaissance to Restoration (Group B), and 18th and 19th century literature (Group C) - as well as a compulsory dissertation (Group D). As you explore the modules below you will see a note of the period grouping to which each module belongs. Group E modules cover the period from 1900 to the present.

Joint Honours students will typically take three to five modules across two years of study. Joint Honours students are not required to take the Dissertation module, but must ensure that they take at least one pre-1900 module in English (Group A, B or C).