English with English Language (Q310)

This degree programme offers you the opportunity to study a range of courses in English Literature and at the same time to study the history and structure of the English Language with specialist tutors in Linguistics. It will develop linguistic awareness and the intellectual and interpersonal skills which are valued by a wide range of employers. Two thirds of your courses will be chosen from those in English Literature.

First Year / Part One

In your first year, you must take a total of 120 credits, 80 credits of English and 40 credits of English Language, including the compulsory English modules: QXE1002 Textual Analysis and QXE1000 Critical Interpretations; Language modules (see below) and other modules worth 40 credits (20 credits of which could be taken in Film, Creative Writing or American Literature and Culture, which are also taught by staff in the department). For more information on the modules offered at part one, click here. Or, if you wish, you could sample courses, worth up to 40 credits, from other academic subjects e.g. History, Linguistics, Modern Languages, Psychology, Information Technology. To find out about part one modules in other departments, see the Gazette. English Literature with English Language students currently choose 40 credits from the following options:

Semester One
QXL1012: Structure of Language
QXL1013: English Language Studies
QXL1014: Language and Society

Semester Two:
QXL1011: Language and Mind
QXL1015: Language Systems
QXL1016: Structure of English

For more information on these courses, see the English Language department website.

Second and Third Years / Part Two

In your second year you must take a total of 120 credits, 80 credits of English and 40 credits of English Language (see below). It is impossible for a 'with English Language' student to take an 'elective' in another subject including those also taught within the English department, Creative Writing, Film and American Literature and Culture.

English Literature with English Language students currently choose 40 credits from the following:

Compulsory:
Either QXL2210 Meaning: Semantics & Pragmatics
Or QXL2212 English Sentence Structure
A total of 40 credits in Level 2 Linguistics (see list below) +80 credits in English Literature

Optional Additional choices (CHOOSE ONE):
QXL2210 or QXL2212 (not chosen above)
QXL2214 Sentence Structure: Syntax
QXL2215 Variation in English
QXL2219 Sounds & Sound Structure
QXL2217 Child Language Acquisition
QXL2228 Language and Gender
QXL2233 Applied Linguistics
QXL2234 Sociolinguistics
QCL2245 Ieithyddiaeth Gymraeg

For the remaining 80 credits, Students must choose a minimum of 20 credits from each of the sets A and B:

•    A QXE2022 Shakespeare
•    A QXE2003 Jonson to Johnson
•    A QXE2010 Writing the Renaissance
•    A QXE2101 Medieval Literature
•    B QXE2004 Romanticism
•    B QXE2005 Victorian Literature
•    B QXE2006 Early Twentieth Century Literature
•    B QXE2007 Late Twentieth Century Literature

For more information on the modules offered at level two, click here.

[N.B. Please note that, currently, modules QXL2214/2212 Sentence structure/English sentence structure will be taught together]

Third Year

In the third year you must take a total of 120 credits, 80 credits of English and 40 credits of English Language (see below). You may take a dissertation in English Literature (QXE3099). To find out more about modules offered in the English Department in the third year, click here.

English Literature with English Language students currently choose 40 credits from the following:

Optional choices (CHOOSE TWO):

(Level 3)	QXL3317 Child Language Acquisition
	QXL3322 History of English
	QXL3328 Language and Gender
	QXL3329 Teaching English as Foreign Lang
	QXL3330 Interactional Pragmatics
	QXL3333 Applied Linguistics
	QXL3334 Sociolinguistics
	QCL3345 Ieithyddiaeth Gymraeg
	QXL3351 Discourse Analysis
Seminar**	QXL3335 Bilingualism
(see note)	QXL3346 Forensic Linguistics
	QXL3353 English and Globalisation
	QXL3316 Speech and Language Disorders

**Seminar regulations: Students must take One Seminar No more than Two Seminars (max.) Normally, no more than One Seminar per semester

Want to know more?

Contact:
Dr Tony Brown
Department of English
Bangor University
Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK

phone/fax: +44 (0)1248 382102
email: els015@bangor.ac.uk