English Literature with English Language BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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Duration
3 Years
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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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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
English Literature with English Language BA (Hons)