English
The programme of study in English will help you explore the history and modes of literature and language across time, dating from Ancient Greece to our contemporary life. During the course you will become knowledgeable of different writing styles and will learn about the complex theories and critical approaches towards literature. By studying about canonical and non-canonical writers, both British and non-British, we will help you broaden your literary and linguistic horizon as you come to a firmer understanding of how literature captures the politics, tribulations, arts and culture of the world by defamiliarizing and reconstructing it on page.
Knowledge and Information Management
Knowledge and Information Management is offered as an honours main area of study together with a subsidiary area of study, or as one of two ordinary main areas of study, consisting of:
- Year 1: to which 60 ECTS credits are assigned, and
- Years 2 and 3: to which 120 ECTS credits are assigned.
At the end of Year 1, if you obtain an average mark of
- 65% or better in the Knowledge and Information Management area of study, and
- 60% or better in all the study units of Year 1,
then you will be eligible to proceed to the Honours programme. As a manager in knowledge and information, you will be responsible for the organisation, acquisition, documentation and handling of the body of information that a community or company shares. In your final year, you may have the opportunity to write a research-based dissertation to demonstrate your knowledge.
Knowledge and Information Management
Knowledge and Information Management is offered as an honours main area of study together with a subsidiary area of study, or as one of two ordinary main areas of study. Applicants shall be required to indicate the other area of study at the time of applying for admission to the course.
The course consists of two parts:
- Part One (Year 1) to which 60 ECTS credits are assigned, and
- Part Two (Years 2 and 3) to which 120 ECTS credits are assigned.
At the end of Part One of the course, if you obtain an average mark of
- 65% or better in the Knowledge and Information Management area of study, and
- 60% or better in all the study units of Part One, then you will be eligible to proceed to the Honours programme.
In order to be eligible for the award of the Honours degree, you shall be required to successfully complete study-units to which a total of 180 ECTS credits are assigned, of which not less than 132 ECTS credits shall be in Knowledge and Information Management and not less than 36 ECTS credits shall be in the Subsidiary area of study.
In order to be eligible for the award of an Ordinary degree in Knowledge and Information Management and another main area of study, you must obtain credit for study-units to which a total of 180 ECTS credits are assigned, of which not less than 80 ECTS credits shall be obtained in each of the two areas.
Communication and Academic Skills Programme
The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.
English
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG1077 | Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introduction | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
ENG1082 | Shakespeare and Tudor Drama | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG1075 | Genre: Poetry | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG1083 | Introduction to English Syntax and Phonetics | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
ENG1173 | Romantic Poets 1: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1174 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG1078 | Writing Seminars 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1274 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: Further Studies | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG1071 | Chaucer: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1084 | English in Society 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1273 | Romantic Poets 2: Byron, Keats, Shelley | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1278 | The Art of the Essay | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG2022 | Theories of Literature 2: Literature Criticism Theory - Then and Now | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2033 | Maltese Literature in English | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2077 | Practical Criticism | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2079 | American Literature of the Nineteenth Century 1 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2081 | The Modern Novel | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2095 | English Literature and Music | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG2078 | Writing Seminars 2 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2089 | An Introduction to Cultural Criticism | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Applications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG2031 | Studying English Language at Undergraduate Level | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG2049 | Topics in English Pragmatics | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2118 | Aspects of English Phonology | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2028 | Discourse of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2480 | English in Society 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2005 | Poetry of the Eighteenth Century | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2053 | The Postcolonial Novel (Australian) | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2054 | Metaphysical Poetry and Baroque Writing in England | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2055 | Eighteenth-Century Prose 1: The Rise of the Novel | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2068 | Medieval Literature into Film | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2071 | Shakespeare into Film | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2087 | Creative Writing 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2096 | The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2133 | Maltese Literature in English: Prose | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2290 | Genre: Creative Nonfiction | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG2027 | Shakespeare: Genius and the Imagination | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Applications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG2030 | Second Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2057 | Stylistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG3118 | Aspects of Historical and Regional Variation in English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2805 | Child Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG1372 | Shakespeare: The Second Tetralogy of History Plays | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2006 | Milton and the Epic Voice | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2041 | High Modernism in English and American Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2042 | The English Novel in the Later Nineteenth Century: Henry James | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2052 | The Postcolonial Novel 1: African | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2063 | Theories of Literature 3: Gender and Power | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2064 | Theories of Literature 4: Postcolonialism | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2066 | Current Debates in Literary Theory | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2067 | Chaucer and Medieval Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2092 | Travel Writing | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2173 | Modern Drama | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2176 | Victorian Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2276 | Modern Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2333 | Maltese Literature in English: Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
Elective study-units and study-units from the Linguistic groups which are offered during year 2 are also on offer during year 3 and vice versa.   |
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG3072 | Contemporary Fiction | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG3074 | Techniques of Close Reading and Comparative Literature | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Applications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG3011 | Applied Linguistics in English Studies 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3022 | Exploring English Corpora: Language and Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2028 | Discourse of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3071 | Varieties of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2290 | Genre: Creative Nonfiction | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3082 | Slave Narratives | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3113* | Creative Writing: Undergraduate Tutorials and Mentoring | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3173 | British Poetry after 1945 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
* Students are required to submit a dossier to Prof. Ivan Callus prior to confirmation of acceptance on study-unit ENG3113.   | |||||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG3051 | Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Ideas and Concepts | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
ENG3052 | Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Readings, Interpretations, Applications | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Applications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG3016 | Language and the Literary Mind | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3017 | Applied Linguistics in English Studies 2 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG3118 | Aspects of Historical and Regional Variation in English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2805 | Child Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2041 | High Modernism in English and American Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2066 | Current Debates in Literary Theory | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3083 | American Studies: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3086 | Horror | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3087 | Creative Writing 2 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3093 | Theories of Literature 5: Literature and Ecocriticism | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3113* | Creative Writing: Undergraduate Tutorials and Mentoring | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3273 | An Introduction to Twentieth Century American Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
* Students are required to submit a dossier to Prof. Ivan Callus prior to confirmation of acceptance on study-unit ENG3113.Elective study-units and study-units from the Linguistic groups which are offered during year 3 are also on offer during year 2 and vice versa.   |
Knowledge and Information Management
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIA1010 | Libraries and Documentary Heritage: History, Formats and Structures | 5 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA1325 | Information Theories: Concepts, Frameworks and Philosophies | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS1211 | Introduction to Records and Archives: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Recommended Optional Units | |||||
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ELP1106 | Advanced English Writing Skills | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ELP1426 | English Writing Skills | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA1201 | Introduction to Archival Description | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA1410 | An Introduction to Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control | 5 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS1011 | Research Methods for Undergraduates | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS1100 | Introduction to ICT for Information Professionals | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIA1518 | Classification, Subject Indexing and Authority Control | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA2230 | Collection Development | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA2325 | Information Organization and Management | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS2612 | Management in the Information Sector | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Recommended Optional Unit | |||||
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LIS2721* | Special Topic | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIA1313 | Maltese Archival and Manuscript Collections | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA2201 | The Globalised Dimension of Archives | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA2326 | The Information Professions, Sectors and Contexts | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Recommended Optional Units | |||||
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LIS2412 | Library Services to Children and Young Adults | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS2555 | Basic Palaeography and Diplomatics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS2611 | Preservation Studies | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS2721* | Special Topic | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
* Before registering for study-unit LIS2721, students are required to check its availability with the Student Helpdesk.   |
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIA3001 | Research Seminar | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA3711* | Special Topic | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS2223 | Print and Digital Publishing | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS3110 | Advanced Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS3111 | Advanced Archival Description | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS3311 | Legal Issues in Memory Institutions | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIA3864 | Synoptic Issues 1: Library and Information | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
LIA3865 | Synoptic Issues 2: Archives and Records | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIA3325 | Knowledge Management | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIA3711* | Special Topic | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS3331 | Specialised Archives | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIS3710 | Aspects of Melitensia | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
* Before registering for study-unit LIA3711, students are required to check its availability with the Student Helpdesk.   |
This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the Award of the Bachelor of Knowledge and Information Management (Honours) - B.KIM (Hons) - and Bachelor of Knowledge and Information Management - B.KIM – under the auspices of the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences.