English Literature and English Language and Linguistics BA Hons

at University of Kent

Program structure

Stage 1

Compulsory modules currently include

• ENGL3360 - Changing Literatures: From Chaucer to the Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL3370 - Thinking Through Theory (30 credits)

• LING3020 - The Structure of Language (15 credits)

• LING3030 - Sounds of English (15 credits)

• LING3130 - Foundations of Linguistics (15 credits)

Optional modules may include

• LING3040 - Language, Self and Society (15 credits)

• LING3050 - Meaning and Discourse (15 credits)

• LING3070 - Tackling Text: Explaining Style (15 credits)

• LING3090 - Global Englishes (15 credits)

• LING3120 - Grammar for Everyone (15 credits)

Stage 2

Optional modules may include

• ENGL6720 - Reading Victorian Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6770 - The Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL6810 - Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6890 - Modernism (30 credits)

• ENGL6940 - Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (30 credits)

• ENGL6950 - Empire, New Nations and Migration (30 credits)

• ENGL6970 - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL7210 - American Modernities: US Literature in the 20th Century (30 credits)

• ENGL7310 - Interactive and Immersive Fictions (30 credits)

• ENGL7320 - Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health (30 credits)

• LING5001 - Language and the Law: An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (15 credits)

• LING5002 - Language of Gaming (15 credits)

• LING5190 - Syntax 1 (15 credits)

• LING5220 - Morphology (15 credits)

• LING5360 - English Language in the Media (15 credits)

• LING5370 - English Language in the Media 2 (15 credits)

• LING5420 - Guided Research in Linguistics (15 credits)

• LING5450 - Phonetics (15 credits)

• LING5500 - Stylistics: Language in Literature (15 credits)

• LING5520 - Language Variation and Change (15 credits)

• LING5530 - Phonology (15 credits)

• LING5540 - First Language Acquisition (15 credits)

• LING5560 - Semantics and Pragmatics (15 credits)

• PHIL6020 - Philosophy of Language (30 credits)

Stage 3

Optional modules may include

• ENGL5800 - Charles Dickens and Victorian England (30 credits)

• ENGL5830 - Postcolonial Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL6001 - The Project (English) (30 credits)

• ENGL6002 - LGBTQ Narratives: Queer Writing from Britain and Ireland (30 credits)

• ENGL6003 - #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics (30 credits)

• ENGL6040 - The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6330 - Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6550 - Places, Journeys, Borders (30 credits)

• ENGL6580 - American Crime Fiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6760 - Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives (30 credits)

• ENGL7080 - Virginia Woolf (30 credits)

• ENGL7090 - Animals, Humans, Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL7130 - The New Woman: 1880-1920 (30 credits)

• ENGL7250 - A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe (30 credits)

• ENGL7290 - Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance (30 credits)

• LING5100 - Stylistics and Creative Writing (15 credits)

• LING5260 - Syntax II (15 credits)

• LING5300 - Writing In The Media: A Practical Approach (15 credits)

• LING5310 - Language in Atypical Circumstances (15 credits)

• LING5350 - Topics in Semantics (15 credits)

• LING5390 - English Language Teaching 1 (15 credits)

• LING5400 - English Language Teaching 2 (15 credits)

• LING5510 - History of British English (15 credits)

• LING5550 - Language Processing (15 credits)

• LING5990 - Dissertation (30 credits)