Edge Hill University, BA (Hons), Childhood and Youth Studies and English

Childhood and youth studies Modules may include: International perspectives on children and families; youth transitions; safeguarding children youth services; practice/work experience; youth and community work; addiction studies; issues for professional practice; sociology of youth culture; child development; the social child; regulation and criminalisation of childhood; law and social policy for children and youth; education and childhood; educational psychology; social work with children and families. English Year 1: the student studies modules in both language and literature; modules in the 1st year may include: language foundation; language matters; texts and context; reading contemporary literature. Year 2: in the 2nd and 3rd years, the student can choose which modules to study and whether they wish to concentrate on language or literature; in the literature modules, the student is introduced to recent theoretical and critical approaches, as well as being offered a range of modules that include different periods, genres, topics and critical issues; literature modules allow the student to study both classic texts and popular writing; a creative writing option is also available; in the language modules, the student covers major aspects of English language: its structure, sound system and variation; the student also discusses social issues such as the implications of accent and dialect; the student studies various aspects of the history of the English language and English grammar, but can also choose between modules addressing particular issues in language study; vocational modules are also available; modules may include: history and development of English; approaches to sociolinguistic variation; language of Shakespeare and his time; child language acquisition; discourse analysis; early English; phonetics and phonology; modern English structure and usage; regional varieties; computers and language research; words; the renaissance; order and chaos; postcolonial literature; utopian and distopian fiction; green writing; the grand tour; 20th Century gothic; crime fiction; writing the female body; United States women's fiction. Year 3: modules may include: language and education; language and gender; language and word development; communicating sexuality; English in contact; bilingualism; literary stylistics; linguistic ethnography; teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); forensic linguistics; beyond English; language and identity; language, nation and conflict in Europe; language dissertation; Victorian literature; make it new: modernism; special author; poetry now; the fantastic; contemporary poets and their ideas; flight from realism; the short story; empire and identity; sexuality and subversion; looking at London; beyond books; poets and places; literature dissertation.