First year

Core modules:

Studying Poetry
Studying Prose
Arts and Humanities Faculty Challenge - ThinkCreate
Optional modules:

Celtic Languages and Literatures: an Introduction
Critical Contexts: Interpreting Literature
Darwin, Marx, Freud
Early American Literature
Early Englishes
Foundations in Literary Study: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature
Hollywood Cinema
Introduction to Cinema
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to the Reception and Analysis of Theatre and Performance
Practical Stylistics
Studying Theatre: A History of Dramatic Texts in Performance
Second year

Core modules:

Criticism and Literary Theory
Genre
Renaissance Literature
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Optional modules:

Adaptation: Theory and Practice
America in the 1960s
Christopher Marlowe
Creative Writing Poetry 2
Creative Writing Prose Fiction 2
Introduction to Middle English
Introduction to Modern Irish
Introduction to Old English
John Donne
Literary Mad Scientists: From Frankenstein to Einstein
Literature and Nonsense
Love and Death: The Films of Woody Allen
Post-War British Realist Cinema
Radical Theory
Representing the Holocaust
Satire and Print in the Eighteenth Century
Secrets and Lies:Victorian Life-Writing
Storying Sheffield
The History of Persuasion
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Writing the Real
Third year

Core modules:

Contemporary Literature
Modern Literature
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
Romantic and Victorian Prose
Optional modules:

Afro-American Literature 1: Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance
America and the Avant-Garde, 1950's-1990's
Before the Novel: from Arthur to Aphra
Byron and Shelley
Creative Writing Poetry 3
Dissertation
Fin de siècle Gothic
Identity/ Crisis: Trauma, Narrative, Self
Imagining the North
No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Module: Animals in Film
Performing Shakespeares
Project Module
Sex and Decadence in Restoration Theatre
The Idea of America
Theory/Contingency
War on Screen
Women Playwrights on the International Stage: 1880s-1930s
Writing Fiction 3