Explore the relationship between English Language and Literature on this Foundation Entry programme. You’ll analyse a wide range of different texts – from classic works of literature to popular media.
Foundation Entry degree courses are ideal if you’ve got the ability to study for a degree, but don’t have the necessary formal qualifications to directly join an honours programme. It’s a great stepping stone to a full degree.
You can tailor this course to your interests – our modules include semantics and pragmatics, gender and language, Shakespeare, the fairy tale, and the short story.
This programme is suitable if you’re aiming to teach English at secondary level, where it’s increasingly important that you demonstrate knowledge of both language and literature. The incorporation of ‘both sides’ of English develops skills which are relevant to a number of different careers.
Why study with us
- English Language courses at the University of Central Lancashire are ranked 3rd in the UK for organisation and management with 90% agreeing (NSS, 2022).
- Gain work experience later in the course through optional modules in volunteering, leadership and mentoring accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).
- You’ll have the opportunity to publish your work in our Journal of Undergraduate research, Diffusion.
What you'll do
- We’ll focus on your written, oral and transferable skills to ensure you’re employable in a global workplace.
- There are opportunities for further study and your career prospects will be broad - from jobs in teaching, to heritage, journalism and the creative industries.
- You can tailor your study programme to suit your own interests and career aspirations through a variety of optional modules.
Module overview
Year OCompulsory modules
• HUCTIO: Essential Study Skills for Higher Education
• HUCM: Developing Academic Knowledge
• HUC114: Target Award Extended Study
• HUCTIS: Learning by Experience
• HUC201: Skills for English
Optional modules• HUC200: Skills for Languages and Area Studies
• HUC202: Skills for Education
• HUC203: Skills for Humanities
Year 1
Compulsory modules
• EN1215: Reading Texts: Literary Theory
• EN1217: Introduction to Renaissance Literature
• LG1106: Meaning in Interaction
• LG1200: ELSIE (English Language Studies Initiative for Employability)
• LG1222: Sounds and Structures of English
Optional modules• LG1103: Language Variation in Society
• LG1105: Language, Gender and Identity
Year 2
Compulsory modules
• EN2006: A World of Difference: Literature in Translation
• EN2129: From Romantics to Decadents: Literary Culture 1789- 1900
• LG2118: Language and Literature
• LG2200: Academic Writing and Graduate Development
Optional modules• EN2005: American Texts
• EN2012: Reading and Writing Fairy Tales
• EN2027: Live Literature Project
• EN2406: The Graphic Novel
• EN2906: CSI: Literature
• LG2103: Sociolinguistics
• LG2112: Framing the News
• LG2117: Language, Mind and Brain
• LG2119: Metaphor and Meaning
• LG2206: History of English
• LG2220: English Accents and Dialects
• LG2223: Approaches to Syntax
Year 3
Compulsory modules
• EN3005: The Shock of the New: Modern & Contemporary Literature
• EN3992: English Literature Dissertation
• LG3992: English Language & Linguistics dissertation
Optional modules
• CW3905: Otherworlds: Reading and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
• EN3008: Black Atlantic Writing
• EN3013: British Children's Literature EN3028: Literature into Film
• EN3036: Shakespeare, Text and Performance
• EN3037: The Gothic in Literature, Visual Culture and Film
• LG3112: Language and Power
• LG3113: Forensic Linguistics
• LG3117: Clinical Linguistics and Language Pathology
• LG3120: Graduate Career Planning
• LG3220: English Phonology
• LG3222: English Syntax
• LG3224: World Grammars: contrastive linguistics
• LG3225: Discourse, Argumentation, Rhetoric
• LG3236: English in Education
Course delivery
Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.
Future careers
Our English Language and Literature Foundation Entry degree could lead to a career in law, teaching, journalism, publishing, arts administration, theatre, advertising, manufacturing and finance.
Our graduates have also gone on to study to become teachers, or stepped into postgraduate research programmes.
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