The next step on your writing journey is this module, which introduces more skills and techniques (epistolary, ekphrasis, observation…) and challenges you to develop further as a writer. You’ll be asked to respond creatively to the work of another writer (some of whom are Loughborough graduates) and to create a portfolio of work that best represents your strengths and passions as a writer. As always, what you write about, and how you do it, is up to you.

On this module, you will be introduced to a range of Victorian texts, including poetry, novels, and short prose works, in order to assess the aesthetic, intellectual and social questions that informed Victorian writing. You will read Victorian literature in relation to the social and cultural history of the period, allowing you to explore ideas from the period in depth, considering such topics as the growth of industrialisation, scientific developments, the beginnings of the women’s movement, modernity, and evolving concepts of the city and the urban experience. In the weekly seminars, you will be encouraged to work with others as part of a learning community.

This module focuses on the theme of love in the lives of people from the Stuart era (1603-1714), and the importance of this period for the development of English literature. You’ll learn how ‘love’ of various kinds – marital, erotic, filial, and patriotic – holds as much social and cultural relevance as it does personal significance, which is illustrated through the diversity of representations in tragic, sceptical, pragmatic, comedic, and romantic narratives, including plays, poems, and pioneering early prose works.

This module aims to introduce students to the range and diversity of queer literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The module will consider how authors engaged with, and helped to shape, contemporary understandings of gender and sexuality, considering how these concepts shifted over time and across different contexts.

What do you know? What are skills? Where are they going to take you? This module will help you to answer those questions by building on transferrable skills and encouraging you to reflect on your learning. In addition, you’ll learn about the UK job market, and how to negotiate a range of recruitment tasks including decoding job specifications, writing an application, interviews, psychometric tests and the use of AI. Combine these with your degree and graduate with confidence.

This module is an introduction to the diversity of literary and artistic movements, ideas, and concepts grouped under the term ‘Modernism’. On the module, you will learn how twentieth-century writers developed new methods of responding to an increasingly mechanised and urban world, while also pioneering new ways of writing about the self. The module will show how modernists such as T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce reacted against many Victorian conventions to produce challenging and radical art. The focus of the module will be on short fiction, the novel, and poetry, as well as on different modernist ‘voices’.

This module is very diverse, in that it covers a range of forms (including fiction, poetry and drama), in a range of genres (including verbatim, crime and weird) from a range of writers, including work in translation. Whatever your interests, you’ll discover writing that is new to you. What all these texts have in common is their concern with global concerns about identity, race, place, and belonging that undermine national literary and cultural identities as well as colonising cultural centres.

This module introduces influential and acclaimed films from the 20th and 21st-century and explores how they earned their reputation by analysing their interface with, and impact on, wider social, political and historical developments in histories of media.

This module takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of America at war, offering you the opportunity to learn about American wars and their related cultural production in a plurality of contexts. Close attention will be paid to how literary responses, visual cultural responses, and popular cultural responses intersect with the political and social history of those wars. There will be an emphasis on those whose contributions to American wars have typically been marginalised, especially African American and women veterans.

If you are fascinated by the gothic, delighted by the strange and tempted by the unexplained, then this module will be up your – dark, shadowy – street. The Weird as a genre is over a century old, but is still the chosen form for many contemporary writers. This module will introduce you to a range of examples, dealing in different types of the Weird. You may wish to write a critical essay trying to make sense of it all, but you may also wish to try your hand as a Weird writer yourself. You may see a shadow in the corner of the room; hear the voice of an old gentleman in the Church Hall. Or maybe you imagined it.

From the animals in Franz Kafka’s short stories to BoJack Horseman, from nature documentaries to viral clips of cats and dogs online, contemporary culture is saturated with narratives and representations of non-human animals. On this module, you’ll be introduced to new ways of critically interrogating these narratives and representations, drawn from a variety of media, analysing them in relation to recent ethical, political, cultural, and philosophical debates concerning our lives with (and even as) animals.

One 10-credit module from a list supplied by the Language Centre, levels dependent on candidates’ previous qualifications.  Languages offered are: French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish.