DT517 BA (Hons) English Studies and Languages
English Modules Year 2
Semesters
1/2
Contact
Hours per
week
10
1+2
3
Communicative Fluency **
5
1
3
CULT 2013
Intercultural Studies **
5
1
3
ENGA1014
Introduction to Language Learning and
Teaching **
5
2
3
ENGA2002
Texts for Stage and Screen **
5
2
3
Module
Code
Module Title
ENGA2000
American Vantage Points **
ENGA 2001
Total
ECTS (*)
(**) Modules open to Erasmus students who have passed the English for Academic Purpose
Placement Test at Advanced level
BA (Hons) English Studies and Languages
Year 2 – Module Descriptors
English Language Modules
American Vantage Points
"This survey course will engage learners in the close reading and
analysis of texts in American literature from Revolutionary times to
the present day. While some attention will be paid to the historical
context of various readings, study will involve mainly a consideration
of the form, content, structure, tropes and other internal features of
particular texts. The module will help to sharpen learners’ literary and
critical faculties. Texts will be generally canonical as found in The
Norton Anthology of American Literature, which offers numerous
on-line student activities, quizzes, and additional readings. Acquired
competencies will include increased familiarity with American
literature and literary movements, as well as fuller appreciation of
author preoccupations in relation to themes, style, point-of-view,
inclusivity and exclusivity, historical moment, and plurality and
marginalisation. Genres under review will include prayers, letters,
essays, poems, fictions, and dramas
Communicative Fluency
This module is a practicum in the oral and written communication
skills required of inter- and intra-cultural communication within the
English speaking world, particularly in a business context and with
regard to professional communication. The module consolidates and
builds on oral competency by working further to perfect the students’
level of linguistic accuracy and foster deeper awareness of style,
register and tone.
Intercultural Studies
This module is designed to introduce students to the key concepts of
culture and their impact on intercultural communication
This module is an introduction to language awareness and language
teaching methodology. Students will examine features and functions
of spoken and written English and look at the nature and variation in
Introduction to Language
Learning and Teaching
Texts for Stage and
Screen
the English language today. The module will increase students’
awareness of linguistic issues relating to meaning in descriptive
grammar, which looks at the way a language is used by its speakers
and then attempts to analyse it and formulate rules about its structure;
forms and structures that might not be used by speakers of standard
English would be regarded as valid and be included. The module will
review and assess general theories of language and second language
learning
This module introduces the learner to an examination of the ways in
which literary texts are transformed through adaptation for film,
television radio and/or stage