Modules in English Literature, Language and Linguistics
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| Code | Module Title | Stage | Semester | Total Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEL1000 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1008 | The Nature of Language | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1023 | Transformations | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1027 | Introduction to the Structure of Language 1: Phonetics, Phonology & Morphology | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1028 | Introduction to Language Structure 2: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1032 | Dealing with Data | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1033 | Doing Criticism | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1034 | Beginnings | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1035 | Revolutions | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1036 | Introduction to Creative Writing 2 | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2000 | Phonological Theory | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2089 | Syntactic Theory | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2091 | Sociolinguistics | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2201 | Renaissance Bodies | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2202 | Writing New Worlds, 1688-1789 | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2203 | Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832 | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2204 | Victorian Passions: Victorian Values | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2206 | Contemporary Cultures | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2212 | Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2215 | Creative Practice | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2224 | Poetry Workshop | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2226 | Theatre Script Workshop | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2227 | Prose Workshop | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2228 | Screenwriting Workshop | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2229 | Experimental Methods in Linguistics | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2232 | Stagecraft in Early Drama | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2233 | Literatures of Decolonisation | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2234 | Pragmatic Theory | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2235 | CHiLD: Current Hypotheses in Language Development | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2237 | Introduction to Second Language Learning and Teaching | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2239 | Experimental Practicum | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2240 | Early 20th Century American Literature | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2241 | Philosophy of Linguistics | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3005 | Origins and Evolution of Language | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3378 | Landscapes of American Modernism | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3379 | Enlightened Romantics: A Revolution in Feeling | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3405 | Dissertation: Digital Exhibition | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| SEL3409 | Planetary Imaginations: Literature in the Time of Environmental Crisis | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3412 | Writing Liberty in the Romantic Era | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3413 | Language and Ageing | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3415 | Literature and Human Rights | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3417 | Dissertation: Editing Project | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| SEL3420 | Fiction and the Philosophy of Terror: From the Supernatural to the Sublime | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3422 | Reading Freud: An Introduction to the Principles of Psychoanalytic Theory | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3428 | Freedom and Imagination: US Literature 1850-1900 | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3430 | Advanced Second Language Acquisition | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3431 | Laboratory Phonology | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3433 | Popular Romance and Contemporary Political Discourse | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3441 | Medieval and Early Modern Meaning: English Historical Semantics | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3444 | Envious Show: Wealth, Power and Ambition in Narratives of the Country House, 1550-2000 | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3445 | Unsex'd Females: Feminism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3447 | Exposing Ourselves: Privacy, Contemporary Performance and the Public Sphere | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3448 | Current Issues in Linguistics | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3449 | Devolutionary Fictions: Literature, Politics, and the British State since 1960 | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3450 | Border Fictions: Migration, Memory, and Transgressions in Global Anglophone Literatures (1900-Present Day) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3454 | New Words in English | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3455 | Queer/Trans/Early Modern | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3456 | Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares: The Forms of Science Fiction | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3457 | The Medieval World, 1100-1500 | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3458 | Growing Up Global: Children's Literature and the Child | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |