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English Language & Literature
Choosing Third Year modules
Online Module Choice Process • University online module choice (MUSE) opens at 8am
on Tue 3 May 2016 and will close on Fri 20 May 2016.
• Log in to MUSE and click on the myServices tab and then on Online Module Choice.
• Modules are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Some modules may be popular, therefore you may not be allocated your preferred module.
• Please take this into consideration and ensure that you have alternative module choices.
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Online Module Choice Process
• Your core modules will already be listed when you access the online module approval screens.
• Once you have entered your choice of optional modules the department will check and either approve, or reject your choices (depending on spaces available).
• If you receive an email rejecting your first choice, this is the point when you will be required to submit an alternative module choice online for approval.
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Online Module Choice Process • You may not receive an immediate response to
your module choice submission as the department will be dealing with a large number of requests. Please be patient at this busy time.
• If there are any problems you will receive an email from the department advising you what action to take.
• Please ensure that you check your emails on a regular basis.
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Online Module Choice Process
• Screen Casts and the Module Choice Booklet Level 3 modules can be found at:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/current/level3
• The links to the screen casts, module choice booklet and the slides from this briefing will be sent to all students via email.
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Fixing Your Timetable
• We submit our room bookings requests in May and these are confirmed by the University in late July.
• Over the summer, you will need to register for the next academic year (this will be possible via MUSE). If you don’t, you will not be able to log into MOLE
• At the end of August, you will be contacted by email with dates when you will be able to sign to your seminar groups on MOLE.
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Semester 1
Semester 2
Core Modules
The Other Four
EGH321 Dialect in Literature and Film
OR
EGH324 Language and Literature in the Classroom
EGH317 Investigating Real Readers
OR
EGH318 Cognitive Poetics
OR
EGH322 Language and Literature Dissertation
Dialect in Literature and Film
• Poets and prose writers sometimes try to depict ‘other’ varieties on the page.
• Here’s Joseph from Wuthering Heights:
'What are ye for?' he shouted. 'T' maister's down i' t' fowld. Go round by th' end o' t' laith, if ye went to spake to him.'
'Is there nobody inside to open the door?' I hallooed, responsively.
'There's nobbut t' missis; and shoo'll not oppen 't an ye mak' yer flaysome dins till neeght.'
'Why? Cannot you tell her whom I am, eh, Joseph?'
'Nor-ne me! I'll hae no hend wi't,' muttered the head, vanishing.
Dialect in Literature and Film
• What is involved in doing this on a linguistic level?
• What options are available for suggesting the ‘other’ variety?
• What is involved in doing this on a political level?
• What kinds of characters are presented in this way?
• How do readers see them?
Language and Literature in the Classroom: Course Outline
English Education is a huge area, so within this course there’s lots of flexibility for you to pursue aspects that interest you (more on this in a moment).
Lectures will offer a flavour of some of the key areas and debates within English Education, including:
What is ‘English’ and what is ‘English’ for? English education and social justice; English education and the role of popular culture Innovative approaches to teaching (e.g. stylistics in the classroom); Teaching and power; Thinking about teachers and students as readers; Debates around teaching grammar and metalanguage; Debates about ‘Standard English’; Classroom discourse; Young people’s writing;
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Assessment
• There are two assessment for this module:
• An Independent Research Journal (2,000 words: 50%)
Students pursue their own interests within English education and engage in written critical reflection on their findings. Subjects could include: research articles/chapters, newspaper articles, teacher blogs, personal experiences, documentaries.
• Unit Design and Commentary (2,000 words: 50%)
Students design a ‘unit of work’ (a course) focusing on an area within English of their choice (such as studying a novel, a creative writing unit, a linguistics unit) and produce a reflective commentary justifying their choices.
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Investigating Real Readers
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• How to collect data about readers and reading
• How this data can contribute to key questions in literary linguistics, including issues of:
• Characterisation
• Voice
• Patterning
• Emotion
Cognitive Poetics
• The discussion of literature often focuses on the writer but literature is nothing without a reader.
• Readers construct some kind of mental representation on the basis of their encounters with the text.
• Cognitive Poetics examines how they do this and, in so doing, makes use of what we know about cognition.
• A simple example involves thinking about ‘figure’ and ‘ground’ – a pair of concepts in the study of perception.
Cognitive Poetics
Lang-Lit Dissertation
• You can do this instead of the second Lang-Lit core, if you have a Lang-Lit topic you’d rather explore instead.
• If you would like to do a dissertation which contains any stylistic analysis then you are STRONGLY encouraged to do a Lang-Lit one
• You may however choose to do either a Lit dissertation or an ELL one
• Note: it is NOT compulsory to do a dissertation and it will NOT be a problem if you don’t want to do one.
• Only do it if you have a strong sense of what you’d like to work on and are really motivated to do it.
Lang-Lit Dissertation (cont)
• If you choose the Lang-Lit dissertation (EGH322) then you do NOT have to take Research Practice in semester 1
• The same applies to the Lit dissertation
• But for the ELL dissertation you DO need to take Research Practice
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Lang-Lit Dissertation
• If you think you might be interested in doing the Lang-Lit dissertation please email me ([email protected]) with a brief summary (around 100 words) of what you think you might like to do BEFORE module choice opens on 3 May.
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The Other Four
You have quite a lot of choice but you need to ensure that you split your credits 60/60 across the two semesters.
If you do not have a 60/60 split, the admin staff will not give you the choice you have asked for.
The Other Four (1)
One ‘big’ literature module:
• Romantic and Victorian Poetry
• Romantic and Victorian Prose
• Modern Literature
• Contemporary Literature
The Other Four (2) One Language Module
EGH310 Psychology of Language AUT
ELL310 Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages AUT
ELL358 Dialectology, Past, Present and Future AUT
ELL360 Historical Pragmatics AUT
ELL361 Advanced Syntax AUT
ELL362 World Englishes AUT
EGH304 Conversation Analysis SPR
ELL326 Theolinguistics SPR
ELL344 Language and Gender SPR
ELL364 Constructed Languages SPR
ELL365 Digital Language and Literature SPR
EGH303 Research Practice AUT
EGH302 Dissertation SPR
The Other Four (3)
Another English module:
•One of the ‘big literature’ modules, OR
•One of the language modules, OR
•One of the literature options
LIT3042 Performing Shakespeares AUT
LIT305 Afro-American Literature 1: Beginnings to Harlem Renaissance AUT
LIT3050 No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Module: Animals in Film AUT
LIT3056 Byron and Shelley AUT
LIT3060 War on Screen AUT
LIT3061 Sex and Decadence in Restoration Theatre AUT
LIT3062 Theory/Contingency AUT
LIT3063 Creative Writing Poetry 3 AUT
LIT3064 Before the Novel: from Arthur to Aphra
LIT3066 Identity/Crisis: Trauma, Narrative, Self
LIT3000 America and the Avant-Garde, 1950's-1990's SPR
LIT3015 Writing Fiction 3 SPR
LIT3034 Contemporary British Theatre SPR
LIT3048 Women Playwrights on the International Stage: 1880s-1930s SPR
LIT3053 Project Module SPR
LIT3057 Fin de siècle Gothic SPR
LIT3058 Imagining the North SPR
LIT369 The Idea of America
LIT386 Dissertation SPR
The Other Four (4) Another of the Lang-Lit options
Dialect in Literature and Film
Language and Literature in the Classroom
Investigating Real Readers
Cognitive Poetics
Lang-Lit dissertation
OR another English module
OR a module from another department.
