BA English Language and English Literature (with Foundation Year)
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 48 - 96 tariff points, from Level 3 qualifications* e.g. A Levels (including: AS-levels, General Studies) BTEC Diplomas and Certificate Cambridge Technical Diplomas and Certificates City & Guilds Advanced Technical Diplomas International Baccalaureate Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted Access pass required T-levels: considered on a case-by-case basis Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) We also welcome applications from mature learners. Mature applicants and/or those with other qualifications are considered on individual merit
About this course
BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics and English Language and Literature, combining the study of language structure with literary analysis. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Project Management, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme includes a four-year structure with a foundation year providing an alternative route into undergraduate study, and a supervised Foundation Project conducted under faculty guidance. Welsh-medium provision is available for certain modules.
Modules
- Introduction to English Literature and Language
- Essential Skills for the Arts and Humanities
- Arts, Humanities and the Future
- Introduction to Research and Inquiry
- Foundation Project
- Academic Skills
- Debating the Disciplines
- Language of Music
- Transnational Cultures
- Beginners' Spanish
- Beginners' French
- Reading, Thinking, Writing
- Language and Culture: A Toolkit
- Introduction to Language
- Describing Language
- Introduction to English Grammar
- Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
- Introduction to Meaning
- Heroes and Villains: Introduction to Medieval Literature
- Comedy
- Gothic
- Children's Fictions
- History of English
- Analysing Discourse
- Exploring Early Modern Literature
- Exploring Nineteenth-Century Literature: Romantics and Victorians
- Exploring Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Exploring Medieval Literature
- Welsh Linguistics
- Diversity in the Welsh Language
- Sounds and Sound Systems
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Morphosyntax
- Researching Language(s)
- Writing Wales, Writing Ireland
- Reading Myth
- Revolution! Dreams of Other Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- The Monstrous Middle Ages
- Climate Change in Contemporary Culture
- Innovative Publishing
- Dissertation (Bilingual)
- Final Year Project: English Literature
- Linguistics and English Language Undergraduate Dissertation
- Aspects of Bilingualism
- Introduction to Speech Language Therapy
- English as a Foreign Language Theory
- Language Disorders and Bilingualism
- Second Language Speech Learning
- Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
- Phonology and the Bilingual Mind
- Psycholinguistics
- Welsh Linguistics
- Cognitive Discourse Analysis
- Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics
- Exploring Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
- Realms of Magic: Medieval Romance and its Afterlives
- Sex, Sin, and Death: Medieval Women’s Writing
- Nineteenth-Century Networks: Writing Global Connections
- Alternative Worlds: Sci Fi, Young Adult and Speculative Fiction
- Exploring Nineteenth-Century Literature: Romantics and Victorians
- Exploring Early Modern Literature
- Exploring Medieval Literature