BA (Hons) English Language and Literature with Foundation Year

Module: 3GK012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.

Module: 3GK013

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.

Module: 3HU006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to the twin notions of Utopias and Dystopias and uses a range of extracted primary texts (provided in class and on the VLE) to explore how writers, film makers, and others utilise the imagined space of a utopia or dystopia to make comment upon our world.

Module: 3GK014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.

Module: 4EN007

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will examine the shorter fiction and literature of well-known and canonical authors as a means of introducing a range of authors in a digestible fashion whilst also considering the short story as a distinct literary form. We will discuss a range of short literary material to show the contribution that such literature can make to the canon. We will investigate the formal characteristics of the short story – plot (or its frequent absence), narrative technique, arrangement of scenes, tone, and how the structure determines the treatment of a range of contemporary ideas: time and consciousness, subjectivity, alienation, sexuality, body and gender, fantasy, imperialism and immigration.

Module: 4EN010

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This course introduces a number of key texts in medieval and Old English literature through the lens of the medieval animal. You will encounter a range of fantastic beasts in English and European textual and visual cultures from the tenth to sixteenth centuries, and learn the critical skills to analyse them. In doing so, you will examine the importance of animals in forming human and civic identities – including in our own city’s Anglo-Saxon name.

Module: 4EN003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aims of this module are to provide a foundation in the basic knowledge of English grammar and lexis and skills for linguistic analysis which you will need to successfully engage in English Language study. You will be introduced to theories of words, grammar and meaning and you will analyse a wide range of texts, both traditional and web-based. You will learn how to search online language databases and manipulate text using linguistic software in order to analyse contemporary language use in genuine contexts. You will also be encouraged to appreciate how the skills you acquire can have practical applications in real-life situations, especially in the world of work. The skills learned and the activities undertaken on this module map onto the Wolverhampton University Enterprise and Employability Award. Successful completion of the assessment tasks makes you eligible for the Enterprise and Employability Silver Award.

Module: 4TS001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is an introduction to TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). It prepares you for teaching English by developing your practical teaching skills and raising your awareness of theoretical and practical issues in TESOL with a specific focus on teaching adult learners. An important part of TESOL is the study of Second Language Acquisition; the processes that learners go through when learning another language. During the module, there will be opportunities to reflect orally and in writing on your own experiences as language learners and to apply what you have learned to TESOL in the light of SLA theory. You will also be introduced to classroom procedures and practices, and engage in group and paired activities

Module: 4EN009

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will explore a broad selection of poetry from different periods of literary history with an emphasis on learning techniques for formal analysis (close reading), creative expression (writing poetry), and performance. We will consider aspects of reading, writing, and performing poetry, including form, rhythm and meter, diction, figurative language and sound. We will also consider the development of particular genres (e.g. the ballad, the sonnet) and forms (e.g. blank verse, free verse) over time, from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the horizon of reader expectations that accrue around poetic forms and genres.

Module: 4EN002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to develop students’ understanding of modern Standard English through the study of its history and the factors which have contributed to its development. The module introduces students to theoretical frameworks for the study of the English Language and aims to provide students with the tools to describe and analyse examples of written and spoken English in a socio-historical context.

Module: 5EN001

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

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