English Language and Literature BA

at University of Sheffield

First year

In your first year, all students take three core language modules worth a combined total of 40 credits. Either 20 or 40 credits will also be used on one of the core literature modules. The remaining 60 or 40 credits - depending on the core literature module chosen - can be used on modules from the list of optional English modules listed below.

Core language modules:

• The Sounds of English
• The Structures of English
• Exploring Literary Language

Second year

In the second year, you take two core English Language and Literature modules, one each semester. Both of these 20 credit modules continue the work that you began in Exploring Literary Language, exploring the language of literary and non-literary texts. The remaining 80 credits can be used on modules from the list of optional English modules listed below.

Core modules:

• The History of Persuasion
• Writing the Real

Third year

In your third year, you take at least two specialist, 40-credit modules, one from each group below, that bring language and literature together. These modules allow you to specialise a little as you come to the end of your course, and work with a member of staff on an area that is closely related to their own research. The modules on offer change from year to year. You may also take a Language and Literature dissertation. The remaining 80 credits can be used on modules from the list of optional English modules listed below.

Core language and literature modules (Group 1):

• Investigating Real Readers
• Text-Worlds

Core language and literature modules (Group 2):

• Narrative Style in the Contemporary Novel
• Experiments in Digital Story-Telling
• Dissertation