English Studies and TESOL (with integrated year in industry)

What will I learn?

The breakdown below will provide you with an illustration of what you may study during this four-year degree scheme.

In each year you will take a small number of core modules that focus on the practical and theoretical aspects of the course. You will also choose from a wide variety of optional modules according to your personal interests and strengths.

In your first year, you will study Critical Practice, Creative Practice, and Language Awareness for TESOL.

Optional modules may include:

• American Literature 1819-1925
• The Beginning of the English Language
• Reimagining Nineteenth Century Literature
• Reading for Writers
• Academic Writing
• Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
• Ancestral Voices
• To Boldly Go: Reading Star Trek
• Contemporary Writing
• Literature and the Sea
• Introduction to Poetry.

In your second year, you will study Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues, Approaches, methods, and teaching techniques in TESOL.

Optional modules may include:

• A Century in Crisis
• Literary Modernisms
• Contemporary Queer Fiction
• Classical Drama and Myth
• Writing Women for the Public Stage 1670-1780
• Exploring Professional Writing
• Beginning the Novel
• Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
• Adventures with Poetry
• Linguistics for Literary Analysis
• Literary Geographies, Literature since 1945
• Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions)
• Forms of Children's Narrative Prose
• Place and Self
• Shakespeare, Jonson and Company
• In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
• Grit and Candour: Writing Short Stories
• Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction
• Writing Selves
• Transpositions
• Shaping Plots.

In your third year, you will spend a Year in Industry. The related core modules are Work Placement: Evaluations and Developments; Work Placement: Reflections and Contributions.

In your final year, you will take the following core modules: Undergraduate Dissertation or The Writing Project; Materials Development and the Application of Technologies.

You will also choose from optional modules that include:

• Reading Theory / Reading Text
• Victorian Childhoods
• Writing in the Margins
• Remix: Chaucer in The Then and Now
• Literatures of Surveillance
• Textual Interventions
• Writing and Place
• Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
• Romantic Eroticism
• Reimagining the World Wars: Contemporary Historical Fictions
• Haunting Texts
• The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
• American Literature in the 20th Century
• Writing Science Fiction
• Poetry for Today
• Writing Crime Fiction.

Further Study:

A degree in English Studies and TESOL (with integrated year in industry) is excellent preparation for postgraduate study. If you choose to continue down an academic track, here are some of the options:

• MA Creative Writing
• MA Literary Studies
• PhD Creative Writing
• PhD English
• PGCE in Primary, Secondary or Tertiary education.

How will I be taught?

This degree is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, and one-to-one tutorials. We also encourage self-directed learning designed to stimulate your academic interest in all aspects of English and nurture your personal and intellectual development.

Two of the core modules in the final year are independent research projects supervised by a subject specialist. The Creative Writing Project or English Dissertation allow you to work on a topic of your choosing, including projects pertaining specifically to TESOL. These modules are excellent preparation for further study.

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed through essays, exams and oral presentations, portfolios of creative work, and designs for learning. You will also be required to complete non-assessed assignments for formative feedback and you will work with others on assessed and non-assessed tasks.