The combination of English and Communication Studies offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your understanding of a range of texts and to engage critically with some of the key issues and debates of our time. This degree offers you the opportunity to study in a Department that has a thriving and internationally recognised research culture.
Reading English allows you to study some of the most interesting and exciting books ever written. The English programme strikes a balance between the study of writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Woolf, and the exploration of less traditional areas like modern science fiction, children?s literature and contemporary women's writing. Study visits to local and national theatres help broaden your outlook and add a further dimension to your studies. In Communication Studies you will explore the full range of communicative activities generated by individuals, organisations and technologies, and debate, for example, the impact of globalized systems of communication and the relationships between communication, identity, consensus, conflict, nation, power and popular culture.
Communication Studies offers a strong balance of theoretical and applied practical work. Access to the Department?s excellent facilities, including radio and TV studios, two multimedia suites and digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites allows you to develop skills to match industry requirements. The course provides opportunities to screen your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable
and vocational skills.
Students take half their degree from English and half from Communication Studies.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Introduction to English Literature 1 and 2 (compulsory)
Ways of Reading (compulsory)
Introduction to Communication and Culture (compulsory)
Communication and Technology
Digital Imaging
Introduction to Radio
Research Methods in Media and Communication
Language and Image
The combination of English and Communication Studies offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your understanding of a range of texts and to engage critically with some of the key issues and debates of our time. This degree offers you the opportunity to study in a Department that has a thriving and internationally recognised research culture.
Reading English allows you to study some of the most interesting and exciting books ever written. The English programme strikes a balance between the study of writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Woolf, and the exploration of less traditional areas like modern science fiction, children's literature and contemporary women's writing. Study visits to local and national theatres help broaden your outlook and add a further dimension to your studies. In Communication Studies you will explore the full range of communicative activities generated by individuals, organisations and technologies, and debate, for example, the impact of globalized systems of communication and the relationships between communication, identity, consensus, conflict, nation, power and popular culture.
Communication Studies offers a strong balance of theoretical and applied practical work. Access to the Department's excellent facilities, including radio and TV studios, two multimedia suites and digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites allows you to develop skills to match industry requirements. The course provides opportunities to screen your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable
and vocational skills.
Students take half their degree from English and half from Communication Studies.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Introduction to English Literature 1 and 2 (compulsory)
Ways of Reading (compulsory)
Introduction to Communication and Culture (compulsory)
Communication and Technology
Digital Imaging
Introduction to Radio
Research Methods in Media and Communication
Language and Image
Introduction to Video
Introduction to Print
Year two modules:
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (compulsory)
Romantic Conflicts
The Victorian Experience: Texts and Contexts
Poetry from Marlowe to Milton
Myth and Medievalism
Imperial and Postcolonial Writing
Special Topic 1 (currently Writing Nations)
News and Feature Writing
Enlightenment in England and France
Performance and Identity
Identity, Difference and Community (compulsory)
Communication and the Public Sphere
Creative Writing
Everyday Life
Internet Communication
Radio Features
Communication and Political Economy
Theorizing Popular Culture
Video Documentary
Animation
Radio Documentary
Year three modules:
Major Project in English or Communication Studies (compulsory)
Modernism and the City
Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality
Special Topic 2 (currently Theorizing Children's Literature)
After the Deluge: Writing, Film, Culture and Society since 1945
Contemporary Fiction
Modern Science Fiction
Synoptic Course Review
Writing Poetry
Film Art
Genocide: Perspectives on the Holocaust
Autobiography: Self, Narrative and Truth
Music, Communication and Culture
Language, Culture and Reason
Globalization and Communication
Technoculture
Creative Practice in Film and Video
Working in Communication
Communication and Artistic Practices
Writing Criticism/Criticism as Writing
Images and Rhetoric of Conflict
Creative Publishing
Creative Radio
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Associated careers
This degree provides excellent preparation for entry into a range of fields including teaching, journalism, television and radio, arts administration and publishing.
Assessment
Assessment is via a mix of examination, essays, portfolios, presentations, reviews, reports and major project.
200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A-level English or English Language or English - Language & Literature at grade C GCSE(s) Required: English Language Grade C preferred For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.