BA English Language and Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
About this course
BA in English Language and Linguistics and English Language and Literature, a joint honours programme combining the study of language structure with literary analysis across periods and genres. Core topics include research methods. The curriculum spans from medieval literature to contemporary culture, and includes work with specialised software for text analysis.
Modules
- How Language Works 1
- How Language Works 2
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Developing English: History and Society
- Transforming Visions: Text and Image
- Discourse
- Structure, Meaning and Function
- Sounds of Speech
- Style and Genre
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and Gender
- History of English
- First and Second Language Acquisition
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Working with Linguistic Data
- Literature for All
- Forensic Linguistics
- Communicating in Relationships
- Communication Disorders
- Dialect in Literature and Film
- Professional and Intercultural Communication
- Experimental Approaches to Psycholinguistics
- Language and Popular Culture
- Phraseology in Theory and Application
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics 1
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics 2
- Literature and Science
- Dissertation
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
- Postcolonial Theory
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- American Poetry after Modernism
- John Milton
- Apocalypse Then and Now
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
- 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
- Cinema Across Asia
- Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
- Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound