English Language and Literature

Course summary

This course offers students opportunities to develop their subject expertise by engaging creatively, critically and independently with a wide range of texts. Using literary and linguistic concepts and methods, students analyse texts in a range of modes and genres, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, poetry by Seamus Heaney and the AQA Paris anthology. Students will develop skills as producers and interpreters of language by creating texts themselves and critically reflecting on their own processes of production. The coursework element allows students to explore research-based investigative writing on a linguistic area of their own choice.