Modules for course QQC3 | BA/ELLIT
BA English Lang and Lit
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2022–23 academic year.
The list may not be complete, and the final course content may be different.
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Year 1 Modules
Optional modules
English Literature modules Students must take between 20 and 40 credits (1 or 2 modules from this group). If they choose only 20 credits (1 module) from this group, they must choose one additional module from the group 'Other English Literature Options'. The student must take between 20 and 40 credits from the modules in English Literature modules. The student must take between 1 and 2 modules from English Literature modules.
QXE-1014
The Gothic in Literature/Film
(20)
(Semester 1)
QXE-1003
Intro. to Medieval Literature
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXE-1004
The Literature of Laughter
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXE-1016
Children's Fiction
(20)
(Semester 2)
English Language modules Students must take 40 credits from this group. They may take EITHER the Welsh OR English version of any modules that share a code. The student must take 40 credits from the modules in English Language modules.
QXL-1113
Language and Society
(20)
(Semester 1)
QCB-1113
Iaith a Chymdeithas
(20)
(Semester 1)
QXL-1115
Intro to Phonetics & Phonology
(20)
(Semester 1)
QCL-1018
Disgrifio Iaith
Cymraeg
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXL-1020
Intro to English Grammar
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXL-1112
Language, Literature & Culture
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXL-1116
Introduction to Meaning
(20)
(Semester 2)
Other English Literature Options The student must take between 0 and 20 credits from the modules in Other English Literature Options. The student may not take more than 1 of the modules in Other English Literature Options.
LXE-1700
Creating National Histories
(20)
(Semester 1)
LXE-1600
Transnational Cultures
(20)
(Semester 2)
Compulsory modules
The student must take 40 credits
from the modules in Compulsory modules.
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- QXL-2222: History of English (20) Core
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2) or
QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2) - QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- QXL-2201: Sounds and Sound Systems (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-2202: Meaning, Mind and Truth (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-2204: Morphosyntax (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-2235: Introduction to Bilingualism (20) (Semester 1)
- QCL-2245: Ieithyddiaeth Gymraeg (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-2250: Functions of Discourse (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-2253: English Teaching in Classroom (20) (Semester 2)
- QCL-2271: Amrywiaeth yn y Gymraeg (20) (Semester 2)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and Early Modern L (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours program
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXL-3303: Introduction to Speech Languag (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3304: Language Contact & Bilinguals (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3308: First and Second Language Sent (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3313: EFL Theory (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3317: Child Language Acquisition (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3320: SLA and Language Teaching (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3325: Speech Science (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3329: Teaching EFL (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-3341: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXL-3343: Language and Communication (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-3344: Multimodal Text Analysis (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-3347: Language Change (20) (Semester 2)
- QXL-3349: Psycholinguistics (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-3357: Metaphor and Thought (20) (Semester 1)
- QCL-3370: Agweddau ar Ddwyieithrwydd (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-3375: Historical Linguistics (20) (Semester 1)