Your tutors will use a variety of teaching methods including lectures, seminars, small-group workshops and individual tutorials. These will be backed up by a well-designed support system that ensures you have a successful learning journey in each academic year. You will not only receive extensive feedback but also ‘feed-forward’ as tutors work with you to explore how you can keep improving on previous work.
Our assessment strategy is designed to support student-centred learning, based on our understanding that everyone has different needs, strengths and enthusiasms. Assessments will develop your communication skills while also testing your grasp of the learning outcomes for each module. Assessment methods will include presentations, learning diaries, written coursework, exams and a final-year dissertation.
A wide range of option modules are offered on this course. To ensure the quality of the student learning experience, some modules are subject to minimum and maximum student numbers.
Modules
Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.
Year one
- EL4007 -Understanding English Grammar (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4008 -Introduction to Language and Literature (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4009 -Approaches to Language Study (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4011 -Doing Linguistics (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4012 -Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Core,20 Credits)
- EL4013 -Introduction to TESOL Classrooms (Core,20 Credits)
- YC5001 -Academic Language Skills for Humanities and Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Year two
- AD5012 -Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit) (Optional,40 Credits)
- EL5013 -Language and Society (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5014 -History of English (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5015 -Language and Literature (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL5016 -Psychology of Language (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5017 -The sounds and structures of English (Core,20 Credits)
- EL5019 -Critical Approaches to Language Study (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL5020 -Classroom Skills for TESOL (Optional,20 Credits)
- TE5507 -Student Tutoring (Optional,20 Credits)
- YC5001 -Academic Language Skills for Humanities and Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Year three
- AD5009 -Humanities Work Placement Year (Optional,120 Credits)
- AD5010 -Humanities Study Abroad Year (Optional,120 Credits)
- AT5004 -Year in International Business (This is made up of modules studied in Newcastle (Semester 1) & Amsterdam (Semester 2) (Optional,120 Credits)
- AT5007 -Year in International Multidisciplinary Innovation (4 modules studied in Amsterdam (Semester 1) & Newcastle (Semester 2) (Optional,120 Credits)
Year four
- EL6024 -English Language Dissertation (Core,40 Credits)
- EL6027 -Second Language Acquisition (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6028 -The origins and evolution of language (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6029 -World Englishes (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6032 -Variation, Change and Corpus Linguistics (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6033 -Language and Social Disadvantage (Optional,20 Credits)
- EL6043 -Language and Meaning (Optional,20 Credits)
- YC5001 -Academic Language Skills for Humanities and Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
