BA (Hons) English Literature and Language Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Teaching and learning in small groups, meeting tutor weekly. Content tailored to develop grasp and understanding of the degree, support academic and research study skills, and prepare for synoptic essay.

Knowledge and skills for systematically analysing and describing English language (grammar, morphology, phonology). Develops theoretical awareness of spoken and written mediums, understanding of style, register and genre, and historical developments of English language.

Introduces 'keywords' historically central to literature study, explored in relation to specific critical approaches and theoretical understandings of literary works.

Investigates how language works in texts and produces effects through examination of writers' lexical and grammatical choices. Analyzes how linguistic choices indicate character attitudes and represent characters as powerful or passive.

Examines English around the world as international, intra-national, native, second, and foreign language. Considers distinctive features and social and cultural implications of English as global language.

Exciting developments in poetry over the last 200 years. Examines how poetry intervenes in modern world, exploring poetic form's role in critique of social and political issues from William Wordsworth to Frank O'Hara, Emily Dickinson to Nat Raha. Considers poetry's engagement with political resistance, social reform, gender, body, sexuality, class and cultural identity.

Generic mix of Shakespeare's plays with broad introduction to contemporary Shakespeare study. Explores specific forms of Shakespearean drama in early modern contexts and performance practices, alongside current approaches, topics and theory.

Central to English Literature and Language degree, supporting development of ability to synthesise studies on core and option modules. Small group teaching, weekly tutor meetings. Content partly tailored to group needs and partly developing synoptic engagement with degree (towards final year dissertation), nurturing study skills and workplace awareness.

Focuses on reader's role in textual interpretation. Introduction to cognitive poetics, examining how readers combine real-world knowledge and character understanding to create discourse worlds, and respond to textual cues.

Overview of history of English language focusing on lexical and syntactic variants throughout the ages. Considers texts as discourses to demonstrate varied history of English in all historical forms to present day.

Examines development of different aspects of language in early years: phonological abilities, syntactic abilities, lexical and semantic abilities, and morphological abilities. Discusses theories explaining development of linguistic abilities.

Key debates and concepts central to understandings of memory and its relationship to culture, history, and representation. Sample topics include slavery and contemporary legacies, the Holocaust, and 9/11.

Explores literature's claims to 'represent' reality. Focuses on emergence, development and contestation of realist aesthetics from rise of English novel in 18th century to present. Investigates how aesthetics have been challenged and consolidated.

Tools to analyse spoken texts in terms of phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, and discourse features. Texts analysed as products of discourse, language situated in particular times and places, constructed with particular purpose.

Introduction to theory and practice of learning and teaching for individuals with little or no teaching experience. Introduces major pedagogic theories, explores contemporary education in relation to practice and broader contexts. Techniques to enhance learning, engagement and inclusion. Principles of lesson planning and evaluating teaching.

Examines literature, society and politics of Victorian period. Through close consideration of poems, novels and visual material, considers responses to industrialisation, 'Condition of England', scientific developments, faith and doubt, psychology, gender, sexuality, imperialism and empire, decadence and fin de siècle.

Literary innovations of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries related to period's religious, social, and political upheavals. Examines literary and theatrical experimentation from late Elizabethan period through English Revolution. Organised in three themes: religion, the social individual, and power and politics.

Interrogates cultural constructions of the present by putting contemporary into conversation with the past. Historicises current social concerns and aesthetic forms to question how and why particular cultural flashpoints have become important. Questions the value of literature today.

Independent study module: year-long research project into language topic of choice resulting in dissertation. Choice of topic, project planning and writing supported by designated supervisor with individual meetings and regular workshops.

From mid-1800s to present, examines ideas around sexuality and politics of desire in literary and cultural artefacts. Through examination of novels, poems, films and television series, considers construction and deployment of notions of sexuality. Considers homosexuality, queerness, trans* identities, heterosexuality, identity, body, intimacy, desire, history, and representation.

Content changes each year, allowing exploration in depth of specific contemporary area or issue in literary studies, led by teaching staff research expertise.

Putting pedagogical theory into practice in educational settings. Reviews theoretical principles of contemporary learning and teaching. Identifies educational setting and explores appropriate approaches to supporting learning. Supported in planning and facilitating short learning activity for classrooms, online learning or non-formal education. Evaluation and reflection on learning and teaching.

Considers how linguistic theory and description can be applied in different ways. Shows how linguistics applies to real-world problems and workplace contexts. May apply expert linguistic knowledge to determine authorship of texts with accompanying theoretical and methodological understanding.