📖Program Curriculum
YEAR 1
Compulsory
Culture and Language
Foundations of Linguistics
Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
The Scene of Learning
Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory
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English in Use
Introduction to English Syntax
Introduction to Phonology
Language Acquisition
Language in the UK
Languages of the World
Sounds of English
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 2
Compulsory
The Scene of Reading
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Aspects of Meaning
Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
Describing Prosody
Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
Explaining Grammatical Structure
Fairy Tales in the Modern World
History of English
Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Mind
Language and the Media
Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory
Literature and Philosophy
Madness, Past and Present
Migration through Photography
Photography and Narrative
Presentations of London in Modern European Literature and Film
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 3
Compulsory
The Scene of Writing
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Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Comparative Literature Research Project
Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
First World War Literatures
Formal Semantics
Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
Lost in Translation?
On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
Philosophy of Language
Photography: The Self and its Image
Structures of Spoken English
Syntactic Theory
The East in the West
Unfamiliar Languages
Please note that all modules are subject to change.