BSc (Hons) English Literature and Sociology
Course Overview
This innovative joint honours degree from Aston University, The Guardian's 'University of the Year' 2020, equips you to critically analyze both the written word and the social world. You will explore everything from traditional literature to contemporary digital media while investigating how social forces like class, race, and gender shape our lives. The program is designed to develop your critical thinking, creative writing, and analytical skills for a successful career.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain invaluable practical experience with a dedicated professional placement year, highly sought after by employers.
- Learn from leading experts in small class sizes, benefiting from a top-ranked student-to-staff ratio for a personalized learning experience.
- Analyze contemporary social issues like inequality, migration, and climate change alongside diverse texts, from classic literature to Twitterfiction.
- Join a program with outstanding student satisfaction and graduate with a significant earnings potential, well above the national average.
- Develop practical skills through a dedicated Creative Writing module and a curriculum focused on critical engagement with real-world topics.
Course Overview
This innovative joint honours degree from Aston University, The Guardian's 'University of the Year' 2020, equips you to critically analyze both the written word and the social world. You will explore everything from traditional literature to contemporary digital media while investigating how social forces like class, race, and gender shape our lives. The program is designed to develop your critical thinking, creative writing, and analytical skills for a successful career.
Key Program Highlights
- Gain invaluable practical experience with a dedicated professional placement year, highly sought after by employers.
- Learn from leading experts in small class sizes, benefiting from a top-ranked student-to-staff ratio for a personalized learning experience.
- Analyze contemporary social issues like inequality, migration, and climate change alongside diverse texts, from classic literature to Twitterfiction.
- Join a program with outstanding student satisfaction and graduate with a significant earnings potential, well above the national average.
- Develop practical skills through a dedicated Creative Writing module and a curriculum focused on critical engagement with real-world topics.
Requirements
Modules
- The Novel Through Time
- Stylistics
- Introduction to Language Study
- Introduction to Social Theory
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Reading and Society
- Written Text Analysis
- Advanced Social Theory
- Research Methods
- Language and Style
- Post-apocalyptic Fiction
- Sociolinguistics
- Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
- Literature in Film
- English Language Teaching
- Language at Work
- Spoken Discourse Analysis
- Language in the News Media
- Crime Fiction
- Working with Language Data
- Advanced Research Methods
- Global Society
- Embodiment and Feminist Theory
- Media and Society
- Kith and Kin: Family Lives in a Social Context
- Material Worlds: Culture, Objects and Practices
- Racisms
- Digital Methods in Social Science and the Humanities
- Integrated Placement Year
- Dissertation (Sociology)
- Dissertation (English)
- Cognition and Style
- Marriage and Literature: Class, Race, Gender and Money
- Language and Literature in Education
- Ghouls, Goths and Vampires
- Leadership and Management Communication
- Advanced Leadership and Management Communication
- Creative Writing
- Language as Evidence
- Child Language Development
- Work, Organisations and Society
- Bodies, Power and Resistance
- Contemporary Social Movements
- Pregnancy and Politics
- Education for the 21st Century
- Religion and Society
- Corporate Power in a Globalised World
- Migration, Borders and Belonging
- Health Policy
- The Challenges of Climate Change
- Community Engagement
- Elites
