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English Language and Literature (Extended Degree) (BA Hons)

Northumbria University

Institution
Northumbria University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Language and Literature (Extended Degree) (BA Hons)
Duration
4-5 years
UCAS code
Z009
Typical offer
A-level CA, UCAS 56-72

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff: 56 to 72 Tariff Points Subject requirements: There are no specific subject requirements for this course.

About this course

BA Hons in English and English Language and Literature, featuring an extended degree structure. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students may choose an optional study abroad period for a semester at an international partner institution during the course of their studies.

Modules

  • Exploring Identity
  • Humanities Portfolio: Skills for University
  • Trigger-happy: The Language and Literature of Offence and Discrimination
  • Public Humanities: Academic Research in the Wider World
  • War and Words
  • Foundations of Creative Writing
  • Introduction to Literary Studies
  • Understanding English Grammar
  • Introduction to Language and Literature
  • Approaches to Language Study
  • Talking Texts
  • Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present
  • Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
  • Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit)
  • Early Modern Cultures
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Language and Society
  • History of English
  • Language and Literature
  • Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism
  • Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
  • Humanities Work Placement Year
  • Humanities Study Abroad Year
  • English Dissertation
  • Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities
  • Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context
  • History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War
  • Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture
  • Shaking up Shakespeare
  • English Language Dissertation
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • World Englishes
  • Variation, Change and Corpus Linguistics
  • Language and Social Disadvantage
  • Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present
  • Writing and Environment
  • Language, Meaning and the Mind
  • Victorian Sensation Fiction
  • Staging Early Modern Gender
  • Skills for Academic Success in a UK University