BA English Language and Literature
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including grade B in A level English Literature or related subject. Related subjects: English Language, English Language and Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies and Creative Writing. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in English at higher level.
About this course
BA in English Language and Linguistics and English Language and Literature, examining both language systems and literary texts in English. Core topics include Language & Translation, Research Methods, Data Analysis, and Statistics. Students study equal numbers of English literature and English language modules across the programme. Optional language modules are available from a choice of ten languages.
Modules
- Poetry in English
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
- Globalisation and Language
- English Language and Society
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- Optional Language Modules
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- English Grammar and Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Myth, Legend and Romance: Medieval Storytelling
- Shakespeare
- Early Modern Literature
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Language and Gender
- Analysing Speech
- Language and Digital Media
- Language and the Mind
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Optional Language Modules
- The Business of Books
- Introduction to English Language Teaching
- Critical Thinking
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Language in Professional Communication
- Dissertation in English Language and Linguistics
- Dissertation in English Literature
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Literature and Mental Health
- Child Language Development
- Issues in Bilingualism
- Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
- Teaching the Language Skills
- Optional Language Modules
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Language and Migration
- Introduction to Speech and Language Pathology
- Language and Power
- Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- Placing Jane Austen
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Children's Literature
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Shakespeare on Film