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Queen Mary, University of London

Bachelor Degree , English Literature

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Course Description

Learn how language develops and evolves, how it conditions our responses to the world, and the ways in which we use it to persuade, inspire and entertain.

Studying linguistics and English literature is a unique opportunity for students who have a love of English, both written and how the language itself is structured. Your linguistics modules will provide you with sound technical and analytical skills and a deeper understanding of language. Your literature classes will explore some of the most interesting and profound ways in which the English language has been used by poets, novelists and dramatists.

Course Content

You can complete your English Literature and Linguistics degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

YEAR 1

Compulsory

  • English in Practice
  • English in Use
  • Foundations of Language
  • Reading, Theory and Interpretation: Approaches to the Study of English Literature

Choose from

  • Introduction to English Syntax
  • Introduction to Phonology
  • Language in the UK
  • Languages of the World
  • Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Century
  • Narrative
  • Poetry
  • Shakespeare

 

YEAR 2

Choose two modules across three subject areas

1. Medieval and Early Modern Studies

  • Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
  • Renaissance Literary Culture

2. Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

  • Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century city
  • Romantics and Revolutionaries
  • Victorian Fictions 

3. Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

  • Modernism
  • Postcolonial and Global Literatures
  • The Long Contemporary

Choose from

  • Aspects of Meaning
  • Explaining Grammatical Structure
  • History of English
  • Language and Mind
  • Language in the USA
  • Research Methods in Linguistics
  • Semantics of African American English

You also choose modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include

  • Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
  • Black and Asian Writing in Britain
  • Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
  • James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
  • Satire, Scandal and Society
  • The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
  • Women and their writing in the Romantic Period

 

YEAR 3

You choose your final-year modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include

  • Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice
  • British Fictions of the 1960s
  • Constructing a Language
  • Creative Writing Prose Fiction
  • Developmental Disorders of Language and Cognition
  • Gender and Language
  • Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
  • James Joyce's Ulysses
  • Language and Health Communication
  • Meaning in the Real World, Sex
  • Reading William Blake
  • Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
  • Writing Modern London
  • Writing Muslims

 

Entry Requirements

A-Level :- Grades ABB at A-Level. This must include grade A or above in A-Level English Literature or English Language and Literature. Applicants with A-Level English Language may be considered on an individual basis. Excludes General Studies and Critical Thinking.

IB :- International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 32 points overall, including 6,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. This must include a minimum of 6 in Higher Level English A.

BTEC :- See our detailed subject and grade requirements.

Access HE :- We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. This must include at least 6 Level 3 credits in English Literature or Literacy modules at Distinction.

GCSE :- Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4.

EPQ :-  Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification.

For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq

Contextualised admissions :- We consider every application on its individual merits and will take into consideration your individual educational experiences and context. More information on how academic schools and programmes use this information as part of the admissions process, can be found on our contextualised admissions pages.

Assessment Methods

Assessment typically includes exams and coursework, often in the form of essays, but sometimes as extended projects, presentations, log books and portfolios.

Additional Information

Degree :-  BA (Hons)

Duration :-  4 years

Start :-  September 2019

UK/EU fees :-  £9,250

International fees :-  £16,200

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