Module Code:

LG1221 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• The aims of this module are to:
• Introduce students to the study of language
• Introduce students to the systemic components of language and to the many different directions from which language can be studied.
• Ensure that students have an acquaintance with basic knowledge on morphology, syntax, semantics, phonetics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and language processing.

Module Code:

EF1498 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Introduce students to basic academic writing skills and conventions:
• Enable students to structure an academic essay
• Enable students to construct simple, cogent arguments in academic writing
• Increase learner autonomy as researchers
• Enhance academic presentation skills

Module Code:

EN1221 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Introduce all students to English literary studies at undergraduate level.
• Provide all students with an initial encounter with the study of the principal literary genres: poetry, fiction and drama.
• Introduce students to models of literary theory and to consider ways of reading texts
• Facilitate the assessment of each student’s potential to progress in the study of Literature
• Enable students to recognise the importance of historical and cultural contexts.
• Enable students to acquire skills and confidence in reading, speaking, and writing about ‘literature’, however that is defined.

Module Code:

EN1222 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• The aims of this module are to introduce students to the linguistic analysis of literary texts. The focus is on describing, explaining and analysing the relationship between linguistic choices and poetic effects in the three major literary genres of poetry, prose fiction and drama. In the lectures students are introduced to a range of analytical tools for describing and explaining meaning and effect, and in seminars students test their understanding by applying these tools in the analysis of a number of extracts from literary texts. The emphasis throughout the course is on students developing practical analytical skills.

Module Code:

EF1707 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Develop the language of second language users of English to meet high level language requirements of academic courses.
• Develop students’ awareness of academic expectations in Higher Education and help them develop knowledge and skills to meet these.

Module Code:

LG1106 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Familiarize students with a range of pragmatic approaches and theories (speech acts, conversational implicature, politeness), providing them with an introduction to the pragmatic and communicative functions of language, rather than just grammatical and semantic structures.
• Show how language operates not just at the level of the sentence and utterance, but at the level of text and discourse, including the use of persuasive language (rhetoric) and the relation between language and ideology.
• Teach students to apply pragmatic and discourse theory to linguistic data in the analysis of short examples and texts, based on the understanding of a range of relevant literature.

Module Code:

LG1222 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• This module provides what is needed from an introduction to English grammar in its own right and provides foundational knowledge for further study in English language and linguistics.A. TRADITIONAL GRAMMATICAL ANALYSISThe aims of this module in terms of traditional grammatical analysis are to:1. Introduce students to the core terminology, categories and concepts of traditional grammar (word class analysis and sentence analysis).2. Enable students to apply these to the analysis of sentences.3. Enable students to use these confidently for further degree-level study of language.B. NATIONAL CURRICULUM ENGLISHThe aim of this module in terms of national curriculum English is to:4. Ensure that students have a mastery of traditional grammatical analysis of English at a level necessary to teach National Curriculum English.C. PUNCTUATIONThe aims of this module in terms of punctuation are to:5. Inform students of the relation between punctuation and grammatical structure.6. Ensure students have secure knowledge of the key rules governing English punctuation.D. SENTENCE STRUCTUREThe aim of this module in terms of sentence structure is to:7. Introduce students to phrase structure analysis and enable students to construct a phrase structure analysis of full sentences.E. PHONOLOGYThe aims of this module in terms of Phonology are to:8. Ensure that the student has a basic acquaintance with the study of English phonology9. Equip students with a sound competence in dealing with phonemic representations, which is one of the key linguistic analytical skills that are necessary for many other modules.

Module Code:

EN1215 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• To enable students to start to think critically about the definitions of ‘literature’ and ‘text’.
• To establish the crucial role played by historical context in the analysis of literature.
• To begin to engage with some central theoretical concepts, such as class, gender, and race, in the analysis of the literary text.
• To develop sophisticated reading techniques by showing the possibilities for historically-informed analyses and paying close attention to the detail of the text.
• Develop skills in writing and oral communication.
• Begin to develop skills in independent study.

Module Code:

EN1217 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Encourage you to evaluate and analyse a range of Renaissance literature encompassing drama, poetry and non-fictional writing.
• Explore the importance of cultural, economic, historical and religious contexts in the study of literature of this period.
• Engage with a range of theoretical models as they apply to such issues authority, gender and class
• Engage with different literary genres and to recognise generic conventions.

Module Code:

LG1103 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Introduce key themes from socially-minded areas of linguistics and help students develop the basic skills and knowledge required to tackle Level 5 linguistics modules successfully
• Make students aware of the existence of linguistic variation in society and help them identify the social and contextual factors that contribute to diversity in language use
• Introduce student to the idea that language use can reflect, influence, and construct meanings and identities
• Encourage students to reflect on their own linguistic practices, memberships to linguistic communities, and language attitudes
• Enable students to conduct research in socially-minded areas of linguistics

Module Code:

AL1039 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Enable students to use the target language appropriately at a basic level of competence in understanding, producing and interacting in a simple way.
• Introduce students to the culture relating to the target language.
• Equip students with a range of transferable skills.
• Develop students’ ability to work independently.

Module Code:

AL1109 (L4)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Enable students to use the target language appropriately at a basic level of competence in understanding, producing and interacting in a simple way.
• Introduce students to the culture relating to the target language.
• Equip students with a range of transferable skills.
• Develop students’ ability to work independently.

Module Code:

LG2403 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Build on LG1220 Introduction to English Syntax and Phonology.
• Develop students’ descriptive knowledge of English and introduce core syntactic constructions.
• Equip students to provide for any sentence an approximation of its structure, using phrase structure trees.
• Develop student understanding of what the diagrams represent.

Module Code:

EF2950 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Introduce participants interested in the teaching of English to practical skills required for effective classroom teaching.
• Ensure students can make principled choices regarding selection of learning materials for a specific group of students.
• Ensure students can research and analyse language and skills for teaching purposes.
• Ensure students can produce lesson plans and deliver lessons appropriate for learners’ needs.
• Enable students to use ELT terms and concepts receptively and productively.

Module Code:

EN2129 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Evaluate and analyse the literature of the ‘long nineteenth century,’ examining the complexity and variety of forms.
• Enable students to acquire a knowledge and understanding of individual texts rom this period through close reading and critical analysis.
• Explore the cultural and historical background which frames the emergence and development of writing from the period.
• Develop understanding of the impact of writing from this era of the development of English Literature, building on work undertaken in EN1217 Introduction to the Renaissance.
• Engage with a range of theoretical models as they apply to such issues as class, gender, identity, and styles of writing and reading, building on work undertaken in EN1215 Literary Theory.
• Develop and enhance research, writing and oral presentation skills.
• Enhance skills in assessing resources, in print and digital formats.

Module Code:

EN2406 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Evaluate and analyse the development of the genre of the graphic novel and its origins in comics
• Explore the cultural and political background of a range of graphic novels from different countries
• Develop skills in close reading of texts paying particular attention to the interplay of their linguistic and visual elements
• Engage with the critical literature in this emerging field
• Consider the impact of the graphic novel on literary culture
• Examine recent adaptations of graphic novels for film and television
• Develop and enhance research and writing skills.

Module Code:

LG2602 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• To study the basic principles of phonology.
• To teach students how to carry out analyses on accent variation and help them understand the major differences among English accents.
• To understand and appreciate the linguistic diversity in the English-speaking world, especially in Britain.
• To have an informed and critical understanding of accent-based social prejudice.
• To provide a broad grounding in the description of English morphology.

Module Code:

EN2006 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Introduce students to the study of texts (fiction, drama, poetry, cinema, &c.) translated into English from other tongues and cultures.
• Develop an understanding of the field of Word Literature and the function of translation in the promotion of texts from different places and, sometimes, distant times.
• Encourage students to improve their understanding of their own culture and other cultures, and to develop their ability to analyse texts closely in a cross-cultural and non-Eurocentric context.
• Enable students to compare and discuss representations of gender, sexuality, race, class, religion and mythology across linguistic and national boundaries, and drawn from a variety of historical contexts.
• Encourage students to engage with key developments in literatures from a global perspective.
• Enhance students’ research, writing and oral presentation skills.
• Develop skills in assessing useful resources, in both print and digital formats.

Module Code:

EN2012 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• To introduce students to the academic study of folk and fairy tales, through (re)-readings of the well-known European tales and more contemporary manifestations of the form, including film/visual versions.
• To develop knowledge and awareness of the generic, cultural, ideological and historical framework of the tales.
• To enable students to engage with different critical readings of the tales, particularly from structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, historicist, postcolonial and postmodern perspectives.
• To enable students to understand better the construction and aesthetic qualities of the fairy tale and its various rewritings as a narrative form.
• To learn about the roles and group work involved in anthologising and put these into practice by producing an anthology of fairy tales

Module Code:

LG2601 (L5)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Introduce students to the main lines of enquiry into the processes of acquisition and development of language in early childhood.
• Enable students to evaluate different approaches to language acquisition.
• Enable students to understand what the study of acquisition can tell us about language as a whole.

Module Code:

LG3992 (L6)

Credit Value:

40 UK CREDITS / 20 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Promote and support the development of an independent area of scholarly research within the field of English Language and Linguistics.
• Facilitate an independent, proactive and reflective approach to learning.
• Develop awareness of critical, theoretical and methodological issues appropriate to a chosen area of research.
• Consolidate those study and research skills already developed within the wider reaches of the undergraduate programme.
• Develop awareness of personal/professional skills and knowledge of career related opportunities
• To present the process and/or product of research findings within an academic and professional context

Module Code:

EN3028 (L6)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Provide students with the opportunity to analyse and evaluate the relationship between fictional and filmic texts.
• Encourage students to investigate the extent to which such texts are the product of social, political, cultural and generic contexts, and to be able to communicate the significance of these contexts.
• Encourage students to explore such issues as the faithfulness and authenticity of adaptation.
• Encourage students in their discussion, analysis and written assessment for this module to employ and assess a range of critical positions which may be relevant to a discussion of these texts.

Module Code:

LG3224 (L6)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• To introduce students to the essential concepts and terminology within the related fields of Language Typology and Contrastive Linguistics in order to enable an adequate linguistic description from a cross-linguistic perspective.
• To foster an understanding of the grammar of English within the context of the world’s languages.
• To develop students’ knowledge of grammatical variation and the strategies which are attested in the world’s languages for the encoding of a variety of grammatical and semantic concepts.
• To provide the opportunity to describe and analyze a language other than English.

Module Code:

EN3992 (L6)

Credit Value:

40 UK CREDITS / 20 ECTS

Module Aims:

• To promote and support the development of an independent area of scholarly research within the field of ‘Literature’ (including American Studies).
• To facilitate an independent, proactive and reflective approach to learning.
• To develop awareness of critical, theoretical and methodological issues appropriate to a chosen area of research
• To consolidate those study and research skills already developed within the wider reaches of the undergraduate programme
• To present the process and/or product of research findings within an academic and professional context

Module Code:

LG3117 (L6)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Familiarise students with a range of language-related pathologies and their causes;
• Enable students to understand how these pathologies are diagnosed;
• Introduce students to therapies for these pathologies;
• Make students aware of clinical ethics, and encourage reflection of best practices; and
• Develop students' critical writing and research skills through an assessed essay on a topic in clinical linguistics.

Module Code:

EF3681 (L6)

Credit Value:

40 UK CREDITS / 20 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Extend students knowledge and skills in the specialist area of Young Learner Teaching within the wider field of TESOL
• Analyse, design and develop learning materials and activities which meet specific young learners’ needs
• Develop the professional skills required to find a position and develop a career within Young Learner teaching

Module Code:

EN3005 (L6)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Extend knowledge of the chronology of English Literature developed in level four and five period modules into the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
• Encourage wide and varied reading, and an appreciation of imagination and creativity in the production of texts.
• Develop skills in close reading across a diverse range of texts with distinct historical, social and cultural origins.
• Examine formal and thematic aspects of modernist and later twentieth-century and twenty-first-century texts.
• Foreground the significance of cultural and historical contexts in twentieth-century and twenty-first-century literature.
• Examine the construction of gender, class and race in twentieth-century and twenty-first-century texts.
• Consider intertextuality within and across a range of twentieth century literary texts.
• Enhance critical thinking

Module Code:

EN3036 (L6)

Credit Value:

20 UK CREDITS / 10 ECTS

Module Aims:

• Examine a range of Shakespeare’s drama.
• Enhance students’ close reading skills of Shakespeare’s plays;
• Encourage students to engage with the plays as performance texts.
• Situate the plays in relation to a range of historical and critical contexts.
• Consider recent productions and appropriations of Shakespearean texts in a variety of media, including film.
• Explore critical and theoretical approaches to Shakespeare.
• Interrogate questions affecting Shakespeare's wider cultural significance