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English Literature, Language and Linguistics

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