English Combined

Course summary

Discover a unique approach to English with Language and Literature and combine your study of novels, poems and plays with blogs, interviews, travel writing and forums. This course recognises that English is not easily divided between Language and Literature. When you study combined English, you will get the opportunity to investigate texts from a wide range of genres and periods, and become a confident reader as well as a skilled producer of original writing. The main focus throughout the course is focused on how language creates and shapes meanings in a range of texts. We study literature texts, such as Alice Sebold’s ‘The Lovely Bones, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Tennessee Williams’s ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’. If you enjoy creative writing, then you will particularly enjoy the unit on ‘The Great Gatsby’, as we re-write sections of the novel from different characters’ perspectives in order to understand more about what writers do when they create viewpoints and characters.