This course provides an introduction to English literature and film combined with intensive focus on writing techniques, and learning and research methods. The texts range from classics such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the novel Wuthering Heights and the poem The Waste Land, to the movie Rear Window and the twentieth-century novels The Great Gatsby and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Each text is studied in relation to issues such as its historical context, and the nature of literat... [More]