English Language and Literature

Course summary

The course aims to encourage you to study language and literature as interconnecting disciplines. You will develop your ability to use linguistic and literary-critical concepts and analytical frameworks in commenting on a wide range of spoken language and written texts. Non Fiction: In this component, you will develop your close reading and analytical skills by studying an anthology of non-fiction texts about the diverse and romantic city of Paris. You will learn a new, analytical language, enabling you to write about a range of texts. You might also have a go at writing non-fiction yourself. Fiction: You will study two texts: Atwood’s dark, dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale and a selection of poetry by a poet such as Carol Ann Duffy or Robert Browning. You will learn about why writers make the choices that they do to make their work effective. For example, which settings, points of view and narrative voices they use and why they do so.