English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Modules in English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Please read our Module Guidance page for full information about choosing your modules. Some restrictions may apply.
| Code | Module Title | Stage | Semester | Total Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEL1000 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1003 | Introduction to Literary Studies 1 | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1004 | Introduction to Literary Studies II | 1 | Semester 2 |
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: Syntax and Phonology | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1028 | Introduction to the Structure of Language 2: Morphology and Meaning | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1032 | Language Variation and Change: Dealing with Data | 1 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL1033 | Doing Criticism | 1 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2000 | Phonological Theory | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2086 | Introduction to Child and Adult Language Acquisition (Inactive) | 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 2 |
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 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2206 | Contemporary Cultures | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2207 | Modernisms | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2212 | Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2219 | Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2223 | Speakers as Wordsmiths: the creation of new words in present-day English | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2224 | Poetry Workshop | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2226 | Theatre Script Workshop | 2 | Semester 2 |
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 |
| SEL2230 | Multilingualism | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2232 | Stagecraft in Early Drama | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2233 | Literatures of Decolonisation | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2234 | Pragmatic Theory | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2235 | CHiLD: Current Hypotheses in Language Development | 2 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2236 | It's not what you say, it's how you say it: Prosody and intonation | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL2237 | Introduction to Second Language Acquisition | 2 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3005 | Origins and Evolution of Language | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3011 | Growing Up Global: Childhood and National Identity from Postwar to Present (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3046 | English Grammar through Time (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3056 | Language in the City | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3091 | Sex and Money: Economies of the Victorian Novel | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3100 | Other Renaissances: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Early Modern Culture (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3349 | The History of Linguistic Ideas (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3373 | Women of Virtue and Women of Pleasure: Sensibility in the Age of Reason (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3378 | Landscapes of American Modernism (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3379 | Enlightened Romantics: a Revolution in Feeling | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3391 | Women on Trial: Gender, Power, and Performance in Shakespeare's England | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3392 | Between the Acts: English Theatre, 1660-1737 (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3395 | The Victorian Novel: Time, Change, and the Life Course | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3397 | American Poetry Now | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3404 | Jazz-Age Magazines | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3405 | Dissertation: Digital Exhibition | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| SEL3406 | Making Ireland: Kingdom, Colony and Nation in Text and Performance (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3409 | Planetary Imaginations: Literature in the Time of Environmental Crisis | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3412 | Writing Liberty in the Romantic era | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3413 | Language and Ageing | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3417 | Dissertation: Digital Edition | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| SEL3420 | Fiction and the Philosophy of Terror: From the Supernatural to the Sublime | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3422 | Reading Freud: An Introduction to the Principles of Psychoanalytic Theory | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3426 | Comparative Syntax: English in a cross-linguistic context | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3428 | Freedom and Imagination: US Literature 1850 – 1900 | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3429 | Deep North: Modern Literature of the North East | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3430 | Advanced Second Language Acquisition | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3431 | Laboratory Phonology | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3432 | Unbinding Utopia, 1750 - 1832 | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3433 | Performance and Every Day Life (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3434 | Making Young Adult Literature | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3435 | All the Feels: Theatre, Emotion and Spectatorship (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3436 | Dissertation: Placement & Project | 3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
40 Credits |
| SEL3437 | Pragmatic Theory (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3439 | North by North East (Inactive) | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3440 | Philosophy of Linguistics | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3441 | Medieval and Early Modern Meaning: English Historical Semantics | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3442 | War Writing: Heroic and Hostile Discourses in Medieval Literature | 3 | Semester 2 |
20 Credits |
| SEL3443 | Victorians and Others: Queer Forms, Queer Lives, Queer Afterlives (Inactive) | 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 |
| SEL3446 | Children's Literature and Black Britain | 3 | Semester 1 |
20 Credits |