English Literature with English Language BA (Hons)

Core modules:

• Critical Reading 1
• Critical Reading 2
• Introduction to English Studies
• Early English Texts and Contexts
• Approaches to Language Study
• Understanding Language 1: Syntax and Morphology
• History of the English Language
• Understanding Language 2: Semantics, Phonetics and Phonology or Understanding Language 3: Semantics and Pragmatics

Two optional modules from a choice of:

• Research Methods
• Middle English: Texts in Context
• Old English I
• Analysing Discourse
• Language and the Mind
• Sociolinguistics
• Language and Identity
• Language Acquisition
• Forensic Linguistics
• Volunteering

Students may choose from a range of additional optional modules:

• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
• Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
• The Modern Age
• Chaucer and His World
• Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
• Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
• Victorian Fictions
• British Literature in the Age of Reason 1688-1743
• Literature in the Shadow of Revolution 1745-1775-1789
• Gothic and Romantic Fiction
• Postcolonial Fictions
• The Postmodern Age
• Individual Project
• Literary Adaptations for Film and Television or Literature and Film
• Contemporary Children's Literature
• Volunteering
• American Gothic
• American Science Fiction
• Writing America
• Work and Money in American Literature

Students may also choose one Creative Writing module

Core modules:

• Dissertation
• Creative and Critical Extended Study

Two optional modules from a choice of:

• Old English 2
• The Evolution of Language
• Crafted Text
• Producing Written Discourse
• Cognitive Stylistics
• Language Death, Revival and Change
• English on the Periphery?
• English and the World
• Language in Scotland
• The History of Linguistics
• Ethnography

Students may choose from a range of additional optional modules:

• The Shakespeare Phenomenon
• Crime and Englishness
• Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Biography and the Body
• William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
• Twentieth Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
• Consumer Culture
• Jewish Identities
• Keywords
• Literature, Sexuality and Morality
• The City in American Literature 1868-1925
• Renaissance Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth I
• Romantic Celebrity Culture
• Globalisation and Contemporary Fiction
• Literature and Psychoanalysis
• Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
• The Figure of the Law in Literature
• Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture
• African American Literatures and Cultures
• The Contemporary American Novel
• American Crime Fiction
• "Sex and the City "and Beyond
• Chick Lit/Womens Writing before "Sex and the City"

Students may also choose one Creative Writing module.

For further information about modules, please view the course leaflet (see right hand side).

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.