BA English Language and Literature
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points
About this course
BA Honours in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. The degree combines linguistic and literary study across creative writing workshops and linguistic theory modules. The course concludes with an independent research project on a chosen topic.
Modules
- Introduction to the Structure of Language 1: Phonetics, Phonology & Morphology
- Introduction to Language Structure 2: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- Dealing with Data
- Doing Criticism
- Beginnings
- Revolutions
- Phonetics and Phonological Theory
- Syntactic Theory
- Sociolinguistics
- Renaissance Bodies
- Writing New Worlds, 1688-1789
- Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
- Victorian Passions: Victorian Values
- Contemporary Cultures
- Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
- Creative Practice
- Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
- Poetry Workshop
- Theatre Script Workshop
- Prose Workshop
- Screenwriting Workshop
- Experimental Methods in Linguistics
- Literatures of Decolonisation
- Pragmatic Theory
- CHiLD: Current Hypotheses in Language Development
- It's not what you say, it's how you say it: Prosody and intonation
- Experimental Practicum
- Early 20th Century American Literature
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- Medieval Worlds, 1100-1500
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 1)
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 2)
- Career Development for final year students
- Phonetics and Phonological Theory
- Syntactic Theory
- Sociolinguistics
- Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
- Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
- Experimental Methods in Linguistics
- Pragmatic Theory
- CHiLD: Current Hypotheses in Language Development
- It's not what you say, it's how you say it: Prosody and intonation
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- Language in the City
- Sex and Money: Economies of the Victorian Novel
- Short-form Dissertation 1: English Language and Linguistics
- Short-form Dissertation 2: English Language and Linguistics
- Long-form Dissertation: English Language and Linguistics
- Documentary Storytelling: Theory and Practice
- Dissertation: Long-Form Essay
- Independent Essay I (English Literature)
- Independent Essay II (English Literature)
- Landscapes of American Modernism
- Enlightened Romantics: A Revolution in Feeling
- Women on Trial: Gender, Power, and Performance in Shakespeare's England
- Time, Change, and the Life Course in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- American Poetry Now
- Prose Portfolio
- Theatre Script Portfolio
- Poetry Portfolio
- Screenwriting Portfolio
- Dissertation: Digital Exhibition
- Writing Liberty in the Romantic Era
- Language and Ageing
- Literature and Human Rights
- Dissertation: Editing Project
- Fiction and the Philosophy of Terror: From the Supernatural to the Sublime
- Reading Freud: An Introduction to the Principles of Psychoanalytic Theory
- Freedom and Imagination: US Literature 1850-1900
- Advanced Second Language Acquisition
- From Input to Output: The Blackbox of Child Language Acquisition
- Medieval and Early Modern Meaning: English Historical Semantics
- Envious Show: Wealth, Power and Ambition in Narratives of the Country House, 1550-2000
- Unsex'd Females: Feminism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction
- Current Issues in Linguistics
- Keats and Romantic Epic
- New Words in English
- Queer/Trans/Early Modern
- Growing Up Global: Children's Literature and the Child
- Shakespeare's Show Business
- Multilingualism