This first-year course explores ways in which our use of language in everyday settings both expresses and creates our social reality. While each course can be taken alone, many of our students choose two courses to make up their first year of English study. For each of our first year courses you attend two 1-hour lectures per week. The lectures are held mid-morning on Wednesdays and Thursdays. You also attend one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Tutorials are also a very effective way of getting to know other students with similar interests.
Once you've completed one or two of our Level 1 courses, you are eligible to take any of our 'upper level' courses. The number and range of our upper level courses reflects the wide interests of School staff members, who are constantly revising course content or adding new courses to those already offered. If you enjoy your first-year study of English, you may choose to take a 'major sequence' in English. To 'major' in English, you need to do two years' upper level study of English following first-year English, choosing courses from our large range of upper level electives. If you obtain good results at the end of your first year in English, we will encourage you to think about continuing to do a fourth year of study to obtain an Honours degree in English.