English

The course develops students’ understanding of fiction writing and its techniques. It is a practice-based course which involves close reading and academic investigation of the short story and novel forms. Through lectures and weekly workshops, the course exposes students to questions of inspiration and choice, method, application, revision, and editing.

This course presents an advanced study of oral and written English expression. It examines idea organization as well as proper usage of language: introductions; conclusions; sentence structure; and vocabulary. The course presents specific techniques of written and oral expression: paragraphs; coherence and cohesion; creative writing; text revision; pronunciation and intonation; dialogue; oral presentations; discourse organization; gesticulation; improvisation; and interviews. 

The course introduces students to the social, political, and cultural contexts out of which its set texts emerge and explores the diverse ways poets, novelists, playwrights and essayists have engaged with their historical moments and written the city. The course is arranged in reverse chronological order, to give a sense of digging down into the strata of London’s accumulated meanings. The course also helps lay the foundation for students' own writing life in London over the course of their study at King’s. 

Stylistics aims to render literary judgments about literary texts comprehensible by focusing attention on the linguistic choices embodied in literary texts. The course introduces some of the most exciting stylistic analyses and applies it to a variety of literary and filmic texts.

This course introduces key works of modernist literature, mostly written in English, though several are by émigré writers. It examines the ways in which modernists developed new forms, whether narrative, poetic, or dramatic, through which to reimagine the representation of consciousness, character, personality, subjectivity, memory, and time. The first half of the course focuses specifically on modernist experiments with narrative voice, exploring the ways that modernist writers such as Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce playfully complicated the relationship between reader and narrator. In the second half of the course students think in more depth about experiments by writers such as T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf with time, memory, and un/consciousness. 

This course is an introduction to undergraduate writing skills focused on the discipline of international relations. It seeks to develop skills such as reading and analyzing academic literature, finding research questions, constructing arguments, reasoning, using evidence to support arguments, essay structuring, and so on. It does so through a careful analysis of selected texts in the IR field, through lectures about specific writing skills, as well as through the interactive development of in-class exercises and written assignments.

Students research a self-chosen topic and develop an extended research essay under the direct tutelage of an appointed mentor. Students engage in conversation with teachers who are experts in the subject being studied. These tutorials allow students to develop their own ideas under the direct supervision of a tutor.