English Language & Linguistics/English Literature

Course description

**ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUSITICS**: - English language and linguistics combines the study of the history, structure and meaning of the English language, to discover what all this tells us about our culture, our society and ourselves. Over 50 years, we created the world-leading 'Historical Thesaurus of English'. You will also have access to dedicated laboratories for written language. You will have access to two dedicated laboratories for learning about and analysing spoken and written language. **ENGLISH LITERATURE**: - You will explore all aspects of literature in English, benefiting from our expertise in a wide range of areas, including American, Irish and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science. In choosing English Literature at Glasgow, you will be studying at one of the oldest, largest and most dynamic centres for the study of literature in the world.

Subjects

• American literature
• Eighteenth-century literature
• Nineteenth-century literature
• Literary studies
• Modern literature
• Poetry
• Romantic literature
• English literature
• English language
• Applied linguistics
• Philology
• English linguistics