School of the Arts Modules
We welcome Associate Students to apply for our range of modules available in Comparative Literature, Drama, English, Film, Linguistics and Modern Languages and Cultures.
In Comparative Literature, you can explore a range of works from different time periods, genres and languages. You can study literatures from around the world, expanding your literary and cultural horizons and thinking deeply about cultural diversity. You’ll be taught by multilingual experts who specialise in the literatures of Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and South Asia.
Popular Comparative Literature modules include:
- COM4209 Myth, Modernity, and Metamorphoses
- COM5065 Madness Past and Present
Our department of Drama has a long-standing commitment to social justice and human rights. We define performance expansively and investigate how it can be used in different settings – theatres, art galleries and museums, schools, prisons, clubs, and the street – in the UK and internationally. Our research, teaching, and public engagement reflect our commitment to new and marginalised texts, practices, voices, and communities.
Popular Drama modules include:
- DRA114 London/Culture/Performance
- DRA261 London Performance Now
Our English department has long been dedicated to the broadest and most inclusive vision of English Studies. We span cultures and periods, encompass literary studies and creative writing, and range across media platforms. We create an environment where global perspectives and the relationship between literature and the wider world are emphasised.
Popular English modules include:
- ESH124 Poetry
- ESH213A Modernism II
- ESH279A Victorian Fictions II
- ESH295 London Walking the City
- ESH296 The Thousand and One Nights
- ESH5001 Global Shakespeare
- ESH5005 London's Art Histories
- ESH6025 Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
- ESH6043 Creative Writing Prose Fiction
- ESH6046 Jane Austen: Regency Novelist
On our Film courses, students learn about film as culture, politics, and art in modules that cover global film histories and industries, philosophical approaches to the cinema, and contemporary cultural issues such as decolonisation, the climate emergency, war and peace, film and ethics, and disability and neurodiversity. Our film practice modules include scriptwriting and directing, documentary filmmaking and creative producing.
Popular Film modules include:
- FLM501 Documentary - Theory and Practice
- FLM5202 Contemporary World Cinemas
- FLM5203A What Is Cinema? (Critical Approaches)
- FLM5206 Digital Film Making
In Linguistics, we combine innovation in research with a focus on understudied and diverse language contexts, and draw on the fact that Queen Mary is situated within one of London’s most culturally and linguistically diverse areas. We provide fascinating research insights into the nature of language and the mind, the role it plays in shaping our identity and interaction, how it relates to the world of AI, and its importance for social justice.
Popular Linguistics modules include:
- LIN6060 Language and Health Communication
With the world more interconnected than ever before, from the online world of social media to working in multinational businesses, being able to speak different languages is invaluable. We offer courses in Arabic, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
If you wish to take a language module above beginner level, you’ll need to ensure and demonstrate that you have the correct language level for the chosen module. Your selection may not be accepted unless your academic transcript demonstrates that you meet the prerequisite or equivalent, or you have taken our online placement test.