BA English and Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 32 points overall, including 6 (English),5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in Sociology and English, combining sociology with English literature and language. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students examine literatures in English across historical periods from Anglo-Saxon texts to contemporary global works, while investigating the organisation of societies and social institutions.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Rethinking Society
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- The Sociological Imagination
- Introduction to English Language
- Digital Society
- The Power of Social Theory
- Social Inequalities and Diversity
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Northern Ireland: Identities, Ideologies & Futures
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Questions for an Ageing World
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Understanding Gender and Migration
- Sociology of Conflict and Peace Processes
- America's Aftermaths
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Race, racism and Colonialism
- Issues in Contemporary Irish Society
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Language in the Media
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Modern Families: Intimate and Personal Relationships
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Norms and Social Change
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Religion: Death or Revival?
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Emotion, Power, and Politics: The Political Sociology of Emotions, Trump, Brexit, and Populism
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- The cultural politics of memory in a global perspective
- The sociology of protest and revolution
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now