Level 4
Level 4 courses in English extend your knowledge of specialised areas of literature and language, focussing on a particular period, writer, genre or topic. Teaching is through twice-weekly seminars.
On these pages you will find detailed information about the content of Level 4 courses.
All course choices should be made in consultation with your adviser of studies.
Level 4 Courses for 2012-13
- EL40BR Frankenstein to Einstein: Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century
- EL40BQ Spenser
- EL40CM Controversy And Drama: The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe
- EL40HQ Literature and Medicine
- EL43IL Burns
- EL45KC Local Horror: The New Scottish Gothic
- EL40QS Text and Transformation: Reading Walter Scott
- EL40TJ Creative Writing 1
- EL40UT An Elephant in the Kitchen: Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction
- EL40XS Transformations of Romance
- EL40ZA Laughter and the Irish Comic Tradition
- EL40ZB Perverse Media: Samuel Beckett's Art of Failure
- EL40ZP Auden
- EL43CP Paradise Lost
- EL43EP Fictional Places and the Place of Fiction in the Renaissance
- EL48KC Justified Sins: Twentieth-Century Scottish Fictions
- EL43HT Romantic Reveries
- EL43QP Travelling Hopefully: The Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson
- EL45AB Writing the City 1550-1630
- EL45GS Fin-De-Siecle Literature And Psychology: Self, City And Empire
- EL45OP The Sagas of Icelanders: The Colonial Literature of Medieval Iceland
- EL45BP The Gilded Age: American Literature 1880-1925
- EL48GB Neo-Victorian Transformations
- EL48OP Beowulf and Old English
- EL48TJ Creative Writing 2
- EL48US Representations of Violence: Putting the 'Art' Back into Atrocity
- EL43YG Kingdom of the Mad: Self and Place in 20th Century American Poetry
There are also a number of courses in language and linguistics. These courses do not count towards your credits for the English programme, but can provide a useful accompaniment to the study of literature.
- EL40LQ Language, Power, People and Nation
- EL40NB Methods and Practise in Language Variation and Change
- EL43LS Language Contact and Change in Language
- EL43NA Language in North America
- EL4502 English Dissertation
- EL45VP Language and the Professions
- EL4503 Dissertation in Language and Linguistics
Past Exam Papers
A Past Exam Paper database is available to registered students.
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