Optional Modules available 2011-2

Last updated: 2/09/2011

The following is a list of optional modules being offered in 2011-12. Please visit this page again before the start of term to check for updates. The availability of modules is subject to a minimum class size.

All core modules offered at the Centre can also be taken as an optional module.

In the Autumn term, you will take the core module, plus one optional module. In the Spring term, you will take two option modules.

Please note that for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies you are encouraged to take at least TWO designated optional modules (these are asterisked), as well as your core module.

All modules start in Week 2. You are also allowed to take one of your three optional modules from outside these CECS designated modules.

Autumn Term

*A Cultural History of the French Revolution HIS00006M. Prof R Blaufarb

*British Orientalisms c.1750-1850. CES00010M. Jim Watt

*Changes of Meaning, Narratives of Change (core module for Representations and Contexts pathway). CES00007M. Harriet Guest and other members of staff

*The Global Eighteenth Century: An Introduction (core module for The Global Eighteenth Century pathway) CES00002M

Issues in Historical Archaeology 1 ARC00022M

*Rebels, Riots and Religion in the 1840s. ENG00034M. Emma Major

* (Romantic and Sentimental Literature) core module. ENG00033M.

. Andrew Ward

Spring Term

*. ENG00006M.

*Exotic Animals in Europe, 1650-1850: Exhibition, Education and Entertainment. HIS00052M. Helen Cowie

*Femininity and Literary Culture: English Women Writers and Politics 1790-1810. CES00004M. Harriet Guest.

*From Body Beautiful to Body Politic: The Politics of the Body in England c. 1600-1700. HIS00002M. Mark Jenner

Humouring Poetry. M Campbell ENG00017M

Issues in Historical Archaelogy 2. ARC000023M.

*The Propaganda War in London, 1793-6. CES00009M. John Barrell.

*. ENG00032M Alison O'Byrne

Themes in the Historical Landscape. Jon Finch