English at the University of Birmingham

I am currently in my second year of studying English at Birmingham University. This year we have studied a borad range of topics ranging from sociolinguistics, to forgery, to Early modern literature. We have also begun planning our third year dissertation topics, as well as learning about how to research and set out a dissertation in our Dissertation skills module. Here is a more detailed breakdown of my second year course:


2nd year; 1st semester

Issues in Literary Theory
Literature: B core (Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature)
Language: Sociolinguistics
Specialist : Theories of the Mind
Ancillary: Bibliography
Lectures: Literature core

2nd Year, 2nd semester

Shakespeare
Literature: D core (Recent and contemporary literature
Language: Sociolinguistics; language and reality
Dissertation Skills
Ancillary : Bibliography
Lectures: Literature core

Here also is a likely breakdown of my 3rd year's course:


3rd year, 1st semester
Dissertation
Literature: A core; Early prose (1350-1500)
Language: Billingualism 1
Specialist: Creative Writing
Ancillary: Bibliography

3rd year, 2nd semester
Dissertation
Literature: C core (The Romantic period)
Language: Billingualism II
Specialist: Tony Harrison
Ancillary: Bibliography