English BA Hons Programme 2009-2010
University of Malta
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
Study-units on offer during the Academic Year 2009-2010
English Honours
YEAR O'E
Year (These units start in Semester 1 and continue in Semester 2)
Compulsory Units (All students must register for these units)
ENG1072 Shakespeare and Tudor Drama
ENG1077 Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introduction
ENG1079 Structure of the English Language, Part I
6 credits
6 credits
4 credits
Non-Compensatable
Non-Compensatable
Non-Compensatable
Students should choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in
the ‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’:
ENG1073 Romanticism
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG1074 English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
4 credits Non-Compensatable
Elective Unit
ENG1075 Genre: Poetry
4 credits
Semester 1
Compulsory Unit (All students must register for this unit.)
ENG1080 English in Society
4 credits
English minimum workload this semester:
Non-Compensatable
12 credits (including half load of Year units)
Semester 2
Compulsory Unit (All students must register for this unit.)
ENG1078 Writing Seminars I
2 credits
Non-Compensatable
Students should choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in
the ‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’:
ENG1071 Chaucer: An Introduction
2 credits Non-Compensatable
English minimum workload this semester:
English workload this year: 26 credits
10 credits (including half load of Year units)
Study-units may not be offered unless there is a minimum registration of three students.
'.B. B.A./ B.A. (Honours) students are reminded that during their first year of study they are required
to register for study units from the other area programme of study to the value of 26 credits and also to
register for optional study units, which may be taken from any area of study (including their main or
subsidiary area), to the value of 8 credits.
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English BA Hons Programme 2009-2010
Requirement for regular progression to YEAR II:
26credits in English
26 credits in subsidiary area
8 credits in optional study-units
Total B.A. course this year: 60 credits
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English BA Hons Programme 2009-2010
YEAR TWO
Year (These units start in Semester 1 and continue in Semester 2)
Students should choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in
the ‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’:
ENG2075 Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2077 Practical Criticism
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2079 American Literature of the 19th Century I
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2081 The Modern Novel
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2082 The Postcolonial Novel
4 credits Non-Compensatable
Elective Units
ENG2072 Jacobean and Restoration Drama
ENG2073 Modern and Contemporary Drama
ENG2095 English Literature and Music
4 credits
4 credits
4 credits
Semester 1
Compulsory Units (All students must register for these units.)
ENG2062 Theories of Literature II: Literature and Culture
2 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2069 Shakespeare: Tragedies
2 credits Non-Compensatable
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2088 Phonetics and Phonology of English: An Introduction
Students should choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in
the ‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’:
ENG2071 Shakespeare into Film
2 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2074 English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2076 Victorian and Modern Poetry
4 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2089 An Introduction to Cultural Criticism
2 credits Non-Compensatable
Elective Units
ENG2068 Medieval Literature into Film
ENG2087 Creative Writing I
ENG2093 Maltese Writing in English
ENG2096 The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle
English minimum workload this semester:
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
8 credits
Semester 2
Compulsory Unit (All students must register for these unit.)
ENG2078 Writing Seminars
ENG2098 Discourse of English
2 credits
4 credits
Non-Compensatable
Non-Compensatable
Students should choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in
the ‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’:
ENG2063 Theories of Literature III: Gender and Power
2 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2064 Theories of Literature IV: Postcolonialism
2 credits Non-Compensatable
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English BA Hons Programme 2009-2010
ENG2066
Current Debates in Literary Theory
2 credits
Elective Units
ENG2065 Stylistics
ENG2067 Chaucer and Medieval Literature
ENG2070 Shakespeare: Problem Plays
ENG2083 English Literature of the Nineteenth Century:
Further Studies
ENG2085 Child Language Acquisition of English
ENG2086 Structure of the English Language, Part II
ENG2087 Creative Writing I
ENG2092 Travel Writing
ENG2097 Children’s Literature
English minimum workload this semester:
Non-Compensatable
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
4 credits
4 credits
4 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
6 credits
Study-units may not be offered unless there is a minimum registration of three students.
'.B. B.A. (Honours) students are reminded that during their second year of study they are required to
register for study-units from their subsidiary area programme of study to the value of 10 credits and
also to register for optional study-units, which may be taken from any area of study (including their
main or subsidiary area), to the value of 4 credits.
Requirement for regular progression to YEAR III:
Total B.A. Hons course this year:
46 credits in English
10 credits in subsidiary area
4 credits in optional study-units
60 credits
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English BA Hons Programme 2009-2010
YEAR THREE
Year (These units start in Semester 1 and continue in Semester 2)
Compulsory Unit (All students must register for these unit.)
ENG3099 Dissertation (Title by agreement with the Head of Department)
12 credits Non-Compensatable
Students may choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in the
‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’:
ENG3072 Contemporary Fiction
6 credits Non-Compensatable
Elective Unit
ENG3073 Contemporary Poetry
4 credits
Semester 1
Compulsory Units (All students must register for these units.)
ENG3074 Techniques of Close Reading and Comparative Literature
4 credits
ENG3076 Research Methods in English Language Studies
4 credits
Elective Units
ENG2087 Creative Writing I
ENG3071 Varieties of English
ENG3096 Special Author
ENG3097 Special Subject
ENG3098 Directed Studies
English minimum workload this semester:
Non-Compensatable
Non-Compensatable
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
10 credits (including half load of Year units)
Semester 2
Compulsory Units
ENG3078 Writing Seminars III
ENG3060 English Language & Literature I
ENG3061 English Language & Literature II
2 credits
6 credits
6 credits
Non-Compensatable
Non-Compensatable
Non-Compensatable
Students may choose from the following Study-Units in order to observe the Requirements in the
‘List of Study-Units All Students Should Have Covered by the End of the Course’
ENG2063 Theories of Literature III: Gender and Power
2 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG2064 Theories of Literature IV: Postcolonialism
2 credits Non-Compensatable
ENG3080 Historical and Regional Aspects of English
4 credits Non-Compensatable
Elective Units
ENG2066 Current Debates in Literary Theory
2 credits
ENG2087 Creative Writing I
2 credits
ENG2092 Travel Writing
2 credits
ENG2097 Children’s Literature
2 credits
ENG3075 Professional Skills
4 credits
ENG3079 Phonetics and Phonology of English: Further Issues 4 credits
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English BA Hons Programme 2009-2010
ENG3082
ENG3083
ENG3084
ENG3085
ENG3087
ENG3088
ENG3090
ENG3091
ENG3093
ENG3096
ENG3097
ENG3098
Slave Narratives
American Studies: An Introduction
World Literature in Translation
British Cinema
Creative Writing II
Literature and Technology: An Introduction
Englishness
Linguistics Seminar I and II
Theories of Literature V: Literature and Ecocriticism
Special Author
Special Subject
Directed Studies
English minimum workload this semester:
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
4 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
2 credits
20 credits (including half load of Year units)
Study-units may not be offered unless there is a minimum registration of three students.
Requirement for successful completion of YEAR III (final year): 60 credits in English
Requirement for award of B.A. (Hons) in English: 180 credits, of which 132 in
English as in this Programme of Studies, 36 in a
subsidiary area and 12 for optional units.
'ote. This programme of study is governed by “The General Regulations for University
Undergraduate Awards, 2008” and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and
the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.
As on 28th September 2009
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