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Fresher Reading Lists and Module Descriptions 2023-24

Junior Fresher Single Honours (SH) Compulsory Modules

Michaelmas Semester

Genre: An Introduction to Literary Studies - ENU11008 (10 ECTS)
Imagining the Middle Ages - ENU11009 (5 ECTS)
Origins of English 1 - ENU11010 (5 ECTS)
Shakespeare - ENU11001 (5 ECTS)
Writing Childhoods: Power, Voice and Agency - ENU11002 (5 ECTS)

Hilary Semester

Cultures of Retelling - ENU11006 (5 ECTS)
Early Modern Literature: Themes, Texts and Context: 1500-1660 - ENU11004 (5 ECTS)
Irish Writing - ENU11003 (10 ECTS)
Origins of English 2 - ENU11005 (5 ECTS)
Pulp: Introduction to Popular Fiction - ENU11007 (5 ECTS)

Junior Fresher Joint Honours (JH) Compulsory Modules

Michaelmas Semester

Genre: An Introduction to Literary Studies - ENU11008 (10 ECTS)
Imagining the Middle Ages - ENU11009 (5 ECTS)

Hilary Semester

Early Modern Literature: Themes, Texts and Context: 1500-1660 - ENU11004 (5 ECTS)
Irish Writing - ENU11003 (10 ECTS)

Senior Fresh Modules (SH and JH)

In the Senior Fresh year, students taking 40 ECTS in English (Single Honors students) must complete all eight of the modules listed below. Joint Honors students taking 20 ECTS in English must take four modules, two in each semester, and must take at least one of the *period-based modules in each semester. In Michaelmas term, the period-based modules are Writing the Body 1690-1800 and Reading the Victorians: Literature, Culture, History; in Hilary term, the period-based modules are British Romantic Literature and Modernisms: Making It New.

Michaelmas Semester