BA (Hons) Publishing and English

• A-Level: AAB - ABB including English (Literature, Language or both). General Studies accepted;
• SQA AHAB including English, plus Highers at majority B grades;
• IB34 points including 5 at HL in English;
• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM profile;
• GCSE Maths grade C. For the first year of entry to this course you will be assessed by interview/audition;
• Other equivalent qualification recognised by the university.

Year 1

Core modules:

• An Introduction to Language
• Critical Studies 1
• Critical Studies 2
• Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing
• Introduction to Poetry 1
• Introduction to Publishing and Bookselling
• Publishing Law
• Communicating Knowledge
• Web Design

Optional modules:

• Introduction to Film Studies
• Introduction to Poetry 2
• Introduction to the Short Narrative
• Introduction to the Short Story
• Women’s Voices
• Writing Women
• Writing in History
• Language in Context
• The Essay
• The Search for Identity

Year 2

Core modules:

• British Drama 1576-1737 or Victorian Literature
• Publishing Design
• Editing and Publishing
• Marketing
• Culture, Society and Technology
• Children's Reading
• The Magazine Business

Optional modules:

• African American Culture
• British Renaissance Drama
• Contemporary Poetry
• Chivalry from Chaucer to Shakespeare
• Diverse Voices
• Dwelling in the Novel 
• Elephants and Engines
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Language in Society 
• 19th Century American Writing
• Renaissance Lyric Poetry
• Philosophy, Literature and the Arts
• Introduction to Multimodality
• Moby Dick
• Writing of the 1970s 
• New Woman Writing
• Slavery and Empire
• Women’s Writing in the 17th Century
• Revolt Against Fate
• Satire
• Sensation Fiction
• Theatre, Nation and Trauma 
• Victorian Literature

Final Year

Core modules:

• Project (Publishing) or Dissertation (English)
• The Book Trade
• The Magazine Business

Optional modules:

• Human Information Processing
• The Child and the Book
• Web Culture
• America at War
• Cruel and Unusual
• Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Maps and Motors
• Modernisms
• Graphic Communication
• Postmodern America 
• Women and Theatre
• Writings of Intimacy
• Contemporary Irish Texts
• Publishers, Authors and Agents
• Decadence
• Myths of America
• Libertines and Libertinism
• Modern Subjects
• Myth and History: Milton’s Paradise Lost
• Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Literature
• Renaissance Lyric Poetry
• Ulysses
• Writing for Performance
• The American West
• Bollywood, Bollywood
• WB Yeats
• Unexpected Light: Writing Afghanistan
• Romantic Writings 1815-1832