English Language & Literature GCE A Level

Course summary

GCE A Level English Language & Literature - AQA Exam Board This integrated English Language and Literature course offers opportunities for you to develop your subject expertise in literary and non-literary discourses. You will engage creatively and critically with a wide range of texts, bringing the nature of literary discourse into sharper view. Using literary and linguistic concepts and methods, you will analyse literary and non-literary texts in a range of modes and genres, in the process gaining insights into the nature of different discourses and ideas about creativity. Key areas of learning: the representation of place, point of view and genre in prose, the forms and functions of poetic voice, creative transformations of texts and critical reflection on your own processes of production. You will study both fiction e.g. prose, poetry and drama and non-fiction texts e.g. personal letters, spontaneous speech, multimedia texts. Key skills developed: producing and interpreting language, critical, creative and analytical skills all required both for progression to higher education and for enhanced employability.