The curriculum of the English (Hons) degree offered by Loughborough University offers the students the freedom to construct a course covering literature and language within a broad range of fields and approaches - providing a stimulating environment for their degree work. The modules university offers on the English course grows out of the current research interests and publications of the academic staff, making it possible for them to study the latest thinking in areas as diverse as the staging of Shakespeare, film studies, the analysis of poetry, writings of intimacy, and language in society.