BA English Language and Literature Q301

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
On this programme, you develop your understanding of English as a living and dynamic global language while exploring a diverse range of literary texts from Britain, America and elsewhere.
Our teaching in English Language places a strong emphasis on applying theory to real-life situations, and on transferable skills such as problem-solving, team-working and data-analysis. You will learn about how to research issues in the social sciences and how to conduct fieldwork. You will enhance your knowledge of grammar and phonetics as well as learning about how language is used in different social settings, how language is acquired by children and adults, and how our uses of English are being re-shaped by the media. Our department has been a leader in the field for fifty years.
You will study the same number of modules in English Literature as in English Language. Our literature curriculum has everything you would expect from a department with a century-long reputation for innovative research. You will read more of major authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Sylvia Plath and Samuel Beckett, but you will also be able to explore the most exciting contemporary writing from Britain, America and the Caribbean. Whether your interests are in creative writing, publishing studies or children’s literature, you will be able to develop your own interests with expert help.
In your first year, you study six modules, three in English Language (‘English Language and Society’, ‘Sounds, grammar and meaning’ and ‘Techniques and skills for applied linguistics’) and three modules in English Literature (‘Genre and context’, ‘Research and criticism’, and a choice of either ‘Poetry in English’, ‘Creative writing’ or ‘Persuasive writing’).
Your second year modules in English Language build your skills in grammar, phonology, sociolinguistics and research methods. In Literature, you choose modules that range from Renaissance lyric poetry...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

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On request

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Subjects

  • English
  • Writing
  • English Language
  • Poetry
  • Grammar
  • Shakespeare
  • Creative Writing
  • Phonology
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Media
  • Global
  • Teaching

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Poetry in English
  • Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
  • English Language and Society
  • Research and Criticism
Optional modules include:
  • Introduction to Creative Writing
  • Persuasive Writing
  • Genre and Context
  • Techniques and Skills for Applied Linguistics
  • English Language in use

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • English Grammar
  • English Phonology
  • Language Research Project
  • Sociolinguistics
Optional modules include:
  • Contemporary Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1950-present
  • Writing, Gender, Identity
  • Writing, Genre and the Market
  • Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
  • Critical Issues
  • Early Modern Theatre Practice
  • Introduction to Old English Literature
  • Lyric Voices 1340-1650
  • Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
  • Renaissance Texts and Cultures
  • Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
  • Shakespeare
  • The Business of Books
  • The Romantic Period
  • Victorian Literature
  • Writing America
  • Writing and Revising
Placement Modules include:
  • Communications at Work
  • Literature, Language and Media
  • Literature, Language and Education

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Optional modules include:
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
  • Approaches to Discourse
  • Black British Fiction
  • Colonial Explorations
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Corpus-based Approaches to Language Description
  • Children’s Literature
  • Class Matters
  • ‘Eyes on the Prize’: Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Decadence and Degeneration
  • Dickens
  • Eighteenth-Century Novel
  • English Grammar and Lexis
  • English in the World
  • Fiction and Ethnicity in post-war Britain and America
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • Family Romances
  • Holocaust Fiction
  • City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
  • Holocaust Testimony
  • Introduction to Speech and Language Pathology
  • Irish Poetry
  • Issues in Bilingualism
  • James Joyce
  • Language and the mind
  • Literature and the Railway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
  • Modern Scottish Fiction
  • Multilingualism and Impairment Across the Lifespan
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
  • Packaging Literature
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Psychoanalysis and Text
  • Restoration Literary Culture
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Saxons to Shakespeare
  • Science in Culture
  • Teaching the Language Skills
  • The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Victorian & Edwardian Children’s Fantasy
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
  • Writing Global Justice
  • Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
  • American Graphic Novel
  • The African-American Short Story
  • Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
  • John Milton
  • Modern American Drama
  • Modernism and Politics
  • Shakespeare and Gender
  • Utopia
  • Victorian Literature and Medicine

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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