BA English Language and English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including A in English Literature or English Language & Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Linguistics and English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a range of taught modules covering historical and contemporary texts.
Modules
- Reading Literature
- English Word and Sentence Structure
- The Sounds of Language
- History and Varieties of English
- Mapping the Medieval
- Theory and Text
- Literature and History
- Language, Mind and Brain
- Study of Meaning
- From Text to Linguistic Evidence
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Victorian Literature
- Language, Mind and Brain
- Study of Meaning
- From Text to Linguistic Evidence
- Phonology
- Analysing Grammar
- Societal Multilingualism
- Quantitative Methods in Language Sciences
- Semantics : The Composition of Meaning
- Pragmatics: Meaning, Context, and Interaction
- The Changing English Language
- Variationist Sociolinguistics
- Stylistics of English
- Spanish Linguistics
- Love American Style
- History of California
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- American Hauntings
- Long Essay
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation
- Phonology
- Analysing Grammar
- Societal Multilingualism
- Semantics : The Composition of Meaning
- Pragmatics: Meaning, Context, and Interaction
- The Changing English Language
- Variationist Sociolinguistics
- Stylistics of English
- Dissertation
- Topics in the Study of Meaning
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Language Contact
- Topics in Child Language Development
- Language Policy and Planning
- Forensic Linguistics
- Romance Linguistics
- Quantitative Methods in Language Sciences
- Spanish Linguistics