📖Program Curriculum
Your early studies will introduce you to the language of everyday life, approaches to gender in literature and creative writing.
You will then choose a pathway with modules to suit your own interests, before focusing in depth on your chosen research project to produce your final dissertation.
BA 3 Year Full-time
Year 1 (Level 4)
FHEQ 4 Undergraduate / HECert
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code
The sound system of English September-January 20 ALE121
Mythbusters: beliefs and truths about language September-January 20 ALE122
Grammar and Meaning January-June 20 ALE100
Language Teaching Methodology January-June 20 ALE108
Language in Mind January-June 20 ALE123
Optional Modules
Compulsory selective module choices
Choose Exactly 20 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE : Select one module.
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Education and Society September-January 20 EDN100
Approaches to Gender in English Literature September-January 20 EN-112
Approaches to Gender in English Literature September-January 20 EN-112
French for Beginners I September-January 20 MLF101
French Language 1A September-January 20 MLF160A Post A level
German for Beginners I September-January 20 MLG108
Spanish for Beginners I September-January 20 MLS130
Spanish Language 1A September-January 20 MLS160A Post A Level
What is Teaching and Learning? January-June 20 EDN101
Year 2 (Level 5)
FHEQ 5 Undergraduate / HEDip
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
None found.
Optional Modules
English Language - Compulsory Modules Selective
Choose Minimum Of 100 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE : Select a minimum of 5 x 20 credit modules from English Language. Modules should be equally split across the teaching blocks. ALE204 and ALE225 are subject to interview prior to module selection. You cannot take both ALE204 and ALE225.? ALE202 has a prerequisite of ALE121 Sound System of English. ALE226 has the prerequisites of ALE100 Grammar and Meaning and ALE123 Language in Mind. ALE250 has a prerequisite of ALE121 Sound System of English
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Language Teaching in Context September-January 20 ALE200
Sociolinguistics September-January 20 ALE202 ALE121 must have been completed in year 1
Teaching Practice (CELTA) A September-January 20 ALE204 Subject to interview. Not to be taken with ALE225.
History of the English Language September-January 20 ALE229
Child Language and Literacy September-January 20 ALE250
Discourse Analysis January-June 20 ALE218
Teaching Practice (CELTA) B January-June 20 ALE225 Subject to interview. Not to be taken with ALE204
Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism January-June 20 ALE226
Research Methods and Tools for Applied Linguistics January-June 20 ALE227 Students intending to pursue a dissertation in year 3 are required to select this module
World Englishes January-June 20 ALE231
AND
Optioanl Module
Choose Maximum Of 20 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE : You may select up to 20 credits from outside Applied Linguistics. You do not have to choose any modules from outside Applied Linguistics. Modules should be equally split across the teaching blocks.
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Introduction to Writing Poetry September-January 20 EN-232
Introduction to Writing Fiction September-January 20 EN-234
Exploring the Bloody Chamber: Medieval to Postmodern September-January 20 EN-237
Medieval Encounters September-January 20 EN-266
Introduction to Writing Drama January-June 20 EN-236
Contentious Shakespeare January-June 20 EN-242
Writing a Short Film January-June 20 EN-270
Year 3 (Level 6)
FHEQ 6 Undergraduate / Honours
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
None found.
Optional Modules
Compulsory - Selective
Choose Exactly 120 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE : Student selecting the dissertation should choose four more modules, two in each teaching block. Students not pursuing a dissertation should select three modules in each teaching block. ALE325 has a prerequisite of ALE227 Research Methods and Tools. ALE316 has a prerequisite of ALE218 Discourse Analysis.
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Second Language Acquisition September-January 20 ALE306
Issues in current ELT September-January 20 ALE308
Language in the Media September-January 20 ALE316 To select this module ALE218 must have been completed at year 2
Language Policy and Planning September-January 20 ALE322
Applied Linguistics Dissertation September-June 40 ALE325 To select the dissertation ALE227 must have been completed at year 2
Computer-Assisted Language Learning January-June 20 ALE319
Forensic Linguistics January-June 20 ALE321
Stylistics: Language in Literature, Film and Video Gaming January-June 20 ALE323
