Communication Studies
Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.
The programme of study in Communication Studies will provide you with an introduction to a selection of compulsory and elective units that are offered in communication studies as a main area. Throughout the 3-year programme, you will gain knowledge and skills in a variety of topics that will accompany your main area of studies, while also providing transferable skills for your daily personal and professional practice. Some of the topics range from Reflective Writing, Journalism, English Rhetoric, and Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication, to Philosophical Approaches to Communication and Culture, Media Aesthetics, Audio Production and Website Creation, to name a few. During the final semester of the joint area, the topics studied will culminate into a synoptic exam that will assess your acquired skill and intellect.
English
Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.
The programme of study in English will help you explore the history and modes of literature and language across time, dating from Ancient Greece to our contemporary life. During the course you will become knowledgeable of different writing styles and will learn about the complex theories and critical approaches towards literature. By studying about canonical and non-canonical writers, both British and non-British, we will help you broaden your literary and linguistic horizon as you come to a firmer understanding of how literature captures the politics, tribulations, arts and culture of the world by defamiliarizing and reconstructing it on page. You will also be encouraged to participate in an Erasmus+ mobility programme for a more holistic and multicultural academic journey.
Communication and Academic Skills Programme
The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.
Communication Studies
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ELP1164 | Reflective Writing: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS1000 | Aspects of Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS1021 | Human Communication | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Support Elective Units | |||||
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SOC1040 | Sociology and Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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MCS1010 | Introduction to Film Studies | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS1030 | Journalism 1 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS1040 | Visual Communications and Graphic Design | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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MCS1311 | Methods of Inquiry | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Support Elective Units | |||||
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ELP1206 | English Rhetoric and Writing Skills for Media and Communications Students | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MAL1211 | II-Malti għall-Komunikazzjoni | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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CRC1010 | Introduction to Marketing Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS1050 | Internet Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS1070 | Personal Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Support Elective Units | |||||
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CGS2100 | Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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DGA2005 | Editorial Design | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
IPG2001 | Principles of Information Law | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS2020 | Video Production 1 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS2040 | Basic Photography | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Support Elective Units | |||||
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PHI2038 | Philosophical Approaches to Communication and Culture | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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CST2061 | Media Aesthetics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
IDG2000 | Introduction to Digital Game Studies | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS2030 | Journalism 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS2050 | Cultural Theory and Semiotics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS2060 | Ethics in the Media | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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MCS3940 | Mentored Practice | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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CST3192 | Media in Maltese Society | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3953 | Social Media and 21st Century Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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CST2121 | Intercultural Communication | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
CST4311 | Advanced Research Methods | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
GDS3001 | Gender in Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3010 | Practical Graphic Design | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3050 | Audio Production | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3060 | Reporting | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3070 | Video Production 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3090 | Video Manipulation and Animation | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3100 | Website Creation | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3110 | Radio Production | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3200 | Scripting Video | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3201 | Film Theory | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3700 | Economics in Media Studies | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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MCS3850 | Synoptic - Theory 1 | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
MCS3851 | Synoptic - Theory 2 | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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CST3111 | Film Appreciation | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
CST3281 | Meet the Press | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
CST3651 | Using Communication for Social Change | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
CST3811 | Public Relations | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
CST3951 | Cyberculture | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
IDG3000 | Game Design and Conceptualisation | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
IPG3001 | Practical Issues in Information Law | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3012 | Analogue, Monochrome Photography and Darkroom | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3040 | Photography | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3080 | Online Journalism | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3120 | In-Depth Reporting | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3130 | Integrated Marketing Communications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3161 | Copyright, Business and Entertainment Law | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3300 | Producing Film | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3400 | Adaptation for Film and Television | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3500 | Consumer and Organizational Buying Behaviour | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
MCS3600 | Documentary Film Production | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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English
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG1077 | Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introduction | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
ENG1082 | Shakespeare and Tudor Drama | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG1076 | Genre: Prose | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG1083 | Introduction to English Syntax and Phonetics | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
ENG1173 | Romantic Poets 1: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1174 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG1078 | Writing Seminars 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1274 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: Further Studies | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG1071 | Chaucer: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1084 | English in Society 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1273 | Romantic Poets 2: Byron, Keats, Shelley | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG1278 | The Art of the Essay | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG2022 | Theories of Literature 2: Literature Criticism Theory - Then and Now | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2033 | Maltese Literature in English | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2077 | Practical Criticism | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2080 | American Literature of the Nineteenth Century 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2081 | The Modern Novel | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2099 | From Plato to Pater | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG2078 | Writing Seminars 2 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2089 | An Introduction to Cultural Criticism | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language and Linguistic GroupsApplications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG2031 | Studying English Language at Undergraduate Level | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG2049 | Topics in English Pragmatics | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2118 | Aspects of English Phonology | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2028 | Discourse of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2480 | English in Society 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2005 | Poetry of the Eighteenth Century | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2053 | The Postcolonial Novel (Australian) | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2054 | Metaphysical Poetry and Baroque Writing in England | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2068 | Medieval Literature into Film | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2071 | Shakespeare into Film | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2087 | Creative Writing 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2096 | The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2133 | Maltese Literature in English: Prose | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2255 | Eighteenth-Century Prose 2: Further Studies | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3091 | Linguistics Seminar 1 and 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG2027 | Shakespeare: Genius and the Imagination | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language and Linguistic GroupsApplications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG2030 | Second Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2057 | Stylistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG3118 | Aspects of Historical and Regional Variation in English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2805 | Child Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG1372 | Shakespeare: The Second Tetralogy of History Plays | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2006 | Milton and the Epic Voice | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2041 | High Modernism in English and American Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2042 | The English Novel in the Later Nineteenth Century: Henry James | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2052 | The Postcolonial Novel 1: African | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2063 | Theories of Literature 3: Gender and Power | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2064 | Theories of Literature 4: Postcolonialism | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2066 | Current Debates in Literary Theory | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2067 | Chaucer and Medieval Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2092 | Travel Writing | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2173 | Modern Drama | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2176 | Victorian Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2276 | Modern Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2290 | Genre: Creative Nonfiction | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2333 | Maltese Literature in English: Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
Elective study-units and study-units from the Language and Linguistic groups which are offered during year 2 are also on offer during year 3 and vice versa.   |
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG3072 | Contemporary Fiction | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG3074 | Techniques of Close Reading and Comparative Literature | 4 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Language and Linguistic GroupsApplications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG3011 | Applied Linguistics in English Studies 1 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3022 | Exploring English Corpora: Language and Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2028 | Discourse of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3071 | Varieties of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG2049 | Topics in English Pragmatics | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2118 | Aspects of English Phonology | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG3082 | Slave Narratives | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3091 | Linguistics Seminar 1 and 2 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3113* | Creative Writing: Undergraduate Tutorials and Mentoring | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3173 | British Poetry after 1945 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
* Students are required to submit a dossier to Prof. Ivan Callus prior to confirmation of acceptance on study-unit ENG3113.   | |||||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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ENG3051 | Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Ideas and Concepts | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
ENG3052 | Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Readings, Interpretations, Applications | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Language and Linguistic Groups Applications in English-Language Studies | |||||
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ENG3016 | Language and the Literary Mind | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3017 | Applied Linguistics in English Studies 2 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Describing Language | |||||
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ENG3118 | Aspects of Historical and Regional Variation in English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Language in Society | |||||
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ENG2805 | Child Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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ENG2041 | High Modernism in English and American Literature | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2066 | Current Debates in Literary Theory | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG2290 | Genre: Creative Nonfiction | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3083 | American Studies: An Introduction | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3086 | Horror | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3087 | Creative Writing 2 | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3093 | Theories of Literature 5: Literature and Ecocriticism | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3113* | Creative Writing: Undergraduate Tutorials and Mentoring | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
ENG3273 | An Introduction to Twentieth Century American Poetry | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
* Students are required to submit a dossier to Prof. Ivan Callus prior to confirmation of acceptance on study-unit ENG3113.Elective study-units and study-units from the Linguistic groups which are offered during year 3 are also on offer during year 2 and vice versa.   |
This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.