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Humanities
Translation & Languages
BA English Language & Culture
3 years
€2530 pa
Programme profile
Nearly a billion people on Earth use English in their everyday communication. Approximately 400 million are native English speakers everywhere from the United Kingdom to Australia and from South Africa to Alaska. English is a global language. And if you hope to participate in society at all, it is a language that you want to be able to speak and read.
Programme content
Year 1
Sound Lab; Writer's Lab; Describing English; bed to the Bard: English Literaure 449-1649; Foundations of English Linguistics; Milton to the Millennium: English Literature 1650-2000; Language Development; American Literature 1860-1960
From your second year, you choose from various specialisations. .
Language matters
learn to analyse the language in different ways through attention to subjects like syntax (rules governing sentence structure), semantics (meanings of words and phrases), pragmatics (meanings of sentences in context), and prosody (melody of speech). Study the different ways that English is acquired (as a first and second language), and how different aspects of the language are used in communication. Explore too the earlier stages of English and how and why the language has changed over the course of time.
States of literature
Study the literature of the British Isles within cultural-historical and national frameworks.
Intertextuality
Acquire the requisite literary knowledge to conduct research within the areas of creative writing and translation. Learn to approach literature from both theoretical and practical perspectives, while deepening your understanding of translation by means of a case study. You will apply your knowledge in the Creative Writing course. .
The social life of English
This specialisation focuses on how people use varieties of English and other languages in different contexts. You will learn theory and research practices from the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, life writing, and language pedagogy. You will study and write about connections between language variation and identities while considering applications for educational contexts.
Entry Requirements
Three A-Levels (CCC) plus 3 GCSEs [Grades A-C] in six different subjects
Six passes at Leaving Certificate, inc 2 x H4
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01 October
01 May
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