English Literature with English Language BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

This course programme offers you the opportunity to study a range of courses in English Literature and to study the history and structure of the English Language with specialist tutors in Linguistics. You will develop linguistic awareness and the intellectual and interpersonal skills which are valued by a wide range of employers. These include: the ability to evaluate and interpret material and the capacity to explain it logically, orally or on paper, the ability to exercise initiative in your work, to manage your own time and to work under pressure to meet targets set by yourself and others.

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Location

Start date

Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: identify in texts a range of linguistic and literary features

relate the meaning of a text to its formal and rhetorical aspects

understand some of the central ideas in contemporary critical theory

apply these concepts, both analytically and imaginatively, to the reading of literary texts.

demonstrate appropriate academic writing skills, including referencing and bibliography.


A degree from the School of English Literature gives you particular skills and also skills which are common to other degrees in the Arts.

Your degree will indicate your capacity to show initiative and work without close supervision, alone or as a member of a group; you will show to an employer that you are able to work under preassure and meet deadlines.

Those students coming to study degrees such as English with Journalism or English with Songwriting will learn particular skills which will enable them, if they wish, to seek jobs in related fields.

Three A level subjects or the equivalent are preferred. A typical offer would be in the 300 280 points range including B in English/English Literature/English Language
Access to Higher Education: Diploma including English Literature level 3
Irish Leaving Certificate: to include four Higher subjects and a B grade at English

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • Options
  • IT
  • English
  • Skills and Training
  • English Literature
  • Memory, Identity and Imagination
  • Travellers’ Tales
  • The Literature of Laughter
  • Reading the Renaissance
  • Exploring America
  • Introduction to US Literature
  • Landmarks in Literature
  • English Literature with English Language
  • Introduction to Medieval Literature
  • Old English texts
  • Translation and middle english texts

Course programme

What will you study on this course? Year 1 You take the compulsory modules and 3 others, either from options offered by the School of English Literature and the School of Linguistic and English Language, or those offered by other Schools of the University. For more information on the individual modules, see the English Literature and Linguistics pages. Compulsory module: Studying Literature: this module will advance your skills of textual analysis and introduce you to a range of theoretical approaches to literary study, including genre, gender and ideology. Optional modules: Travellers’ Tales Memory, Identity and Imagination The Literature of Laughter Heroes and Villains: Introduction to Medieval Literature (a range of Old English texts in translation and Middle English texts in the original) Exploring America: An Introduction to US Literature Reading the Renaissance Landmarks in Literature Year 2 You choose 4 modules from the range of literary topics, and 2 Linguistics and English Language options. Linguistics and English Language modules: Variation in English The History of English English Sentence Structure Literature modules chosen from the following areas: Contemporary Literatures Literature and Modernity Victorian Literature Romanticism Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists Literature 1580 1750 Late Medieval and Tudor Literature Early Medieval Literature Words and Music Literature in the Community Year 3 You will write a dissertation on a literary topic of your choice, supervised individually by a member of staff. You also take 2 specialist modules in English Literature and a further 2 from the English Language and Linguistic options available.

English Literature with English Language BA (Hons)

£ 11,750 VAT inc.