Newcastle University

Undergraduate Modules

Degree programmes are studied over three years full time. The academic year consists of two semesters, with 12 weeks of teaching followed by assessment periods.

At each Stage, modules to a total credit value of 120 are studied. The distribution of these 120 credits between the semesters may be 60:60, 50:70 or 70:50.

A 10-credit module consists of 100 hours of student effort composed of attendance at lectures, seminars and small group tutorials, practical sessions, private study and revision and the completion of coursework. Modules are usually 10 or 20 credits with most 10-credit modules being completed in a semester, while most 20 credit modules continue over both semesters.

Find out more about the modules offered within the School.

Stage 1

• SEL1003 Introduction to Literary Studies 1
• SEL1004 Introduction to Literary Studies 2
• SEL1005 Introduction to English Syntax
• SEL1006 Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology
• SEL1007 The Nature of Language
• SEL1009 Academic Skills
• SEL1011 Literary Theory: Approaches to Reading
• SEL1012 Introduction to English Historical Linguistics
• SEL1019 Introduction to Morphology
• SEL1020 Introduction to Dialectology
• SEL1023 Transformations

Options

• SEL1000 Creative Writing
• SEL1024 Reading in Action

Stage 2

• SEL2000 Phonological Theory
• SEL2086 Introduction to Language Acquisition
• SEL2089 Syntactic Theory
• SEL2091 Sociolinguistics & the Sociology of Language

• SEL2001 Semantics & Pragmatics
• SEL2084 Syntax of the World's Languages
• SEL2211 Contexts
• SEL2212 Topics in the History of English

• SEL2201 Writing the Renaissance
• SEL2203 Revolutionary Britain
• SEL2207 Modernisms
• SEL2209 Poetry & Prose Workshop
• SEL2208 Independent Research Project I

• SEL2202 Writing New Worlds
• SEL2205 Migrating Fictions
• SEL2204 Victorian Passions
• SEL2206 Class, Nation and Identity

Stage 3

• SEL3005 Language Origins & Evolutions
• SEL3046 English Grammar Through Time
• SEL3053 Analysing Geordie
• SEL3331 Grammar, Language & Mind
• SEL3326 Extended Study

• SEL3341 Old English
• SEL3343 Topics in the Syntax of English
• SEL3335 Linguistic Variation and Change in English 1100-1500
• SEL3006 Topics in Phonological Theory
• SEL3009 Language Variation & Change in the British Isles
• SEL3012 Low Educated Second Language & Literacy Acquisition
• SEL3352 Child Language Acquisition
• SEL3327 Extended Study

• SEL3332 Popular Fiction, 1560-1625
• SEL3345 Long 18th-Century Writing and the Social Life of Things
• SEL3309 Victorian Novel
• SEL3336 American Modernisms
• SEL3315 Postwar British Fiction
• SEL3330 Victorians and Moderns: High and popular Literature & the rise of mass culture
• SEL3301 Shakespeare in Performance
• SEL3353 The Child in Contemporary Performance
• SEL3346 Contemporary Documentary
• SEL3324 The Cultural Industries
• NCL3007 NCL Career Development (Careers Service)

• SEL3303 Writing Rebellion
• SEL3304 Atlantic Renaissance
• SEL3340 Journeys of the imagination in Romantic Poetry
• SEL3323 The English Ghost Story
• SEL3339 Metropolis: Modernist Cities in Fiction and Film
• SEL3319 The Spielberg Generation
• SEL3338 Children's Literature
• SEL3318 Conventional Theatre: The Bacchae to Blasted
• SEL3347 Contemporary Documentary 2
• SEL3325 The Cultural Industries
• NCL3008 NCL Career Development (Careers Service)

• SEL3326 Extended Study
• SEL3317 Extended Study
• SEL3333 File of Original Literary Work (40 credits)
• SEL3334 File of Original Literary Work (40 credits)

• SEL3329 Dissertation (40 credits)
• SEL3099 Dissertation (40 credits)