BA English Language and Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including an A in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable) IB: 35 points including 6 in English Literature at Higher Level (Higher Level English Language and Literature is also acceptable) BTEC: DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in English Literature at grade A
About this course
BA (Hons) English Language and Literature is an undergraduate English Language and Literature degree focusing on the combined study of texts, literary history, and linguistic systems. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can also add a placement year or a year abroad to their studies. The first year covers core foundations through Writing Modernity, Other Worlds, Reading Now, and English Past and Present. The second year branches into period studies, global texts, creative writing, and linguistic analysis. The final year centres on an independent project through modules such as English and Related Literature Dissertation and English and Linguistics Bridge Dissertation. Optional modules span specialist literature topics, language variation, and forensic linguistics.
Modules
- Writing Modernity
- Other Worlds
- Reading Now
- English Past and Present
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Syntactic Structures
- Understanding Language in the Real World
- Structure of English
- The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
- The Renaissance
- Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
- Making the Modern: Global Literature in the Victorian Age
- Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
- Creative Writing: Contemporary Practice
- African Imaginations and Afrophone Literatures
- European New Cinema
- Eros: The Literature and Philosophy of Love
- French Autofictions
- Introduction to Greek and Roman Literature
- Modern French and Francophone Literature
- Modern Latin American Literature
- Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
- The World of Beowulf
- Old Norse Literature
- Post-War Italian Cinema
- Beyond the Book: Community Projects
- Aspects of a Theory of Syntax
- Acoustic Phonetics and Phonological Analysis
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Attitudes in Applied Contexts
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- The Language of Turn and Sequence
- Middle English: Texts and Contexts
- English and Related Literature Dissertation
- English and Linguistics Bridge Dissertation
- Black Writers of the Global Nineteenth Century
- Borders Bodies Bridges: Migration and Racialisation in Modern Literature and Culture
- Elemental: Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in English
- From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages and Modern Literature, 1840-1940
- Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
- Modernism's Queer Spaces
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Literature
- Spices and Spies: Renaissance Global Travel
- The Stuff of Poetry
- The Villains of Romantic Gothic
- The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
- A Usage-based View of Language
- Topics in Language Variation and Change
- Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
- Topics in Psycholinguistics: Language Processing
- Topics in Syntax
- Bilingualism
- Dialect Grammar of British English
- English Corpus Linguistics
- Forensic Linguistics
- Forensic Phonetics
- Multimodality: Language and the Body
- Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain
- Phonological Development
- Psycholinguistics: Language Processing