{"id":69,"date":"2020-06-29T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T09:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/?p=69"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T09:43:45","slug":"english-literature-language-q300-email-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/2020\/06\/29\/english-literature-language-q300-email-1\/","title":{"rendered":"English Literature &amp; Language (Q300), Email 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello Everyone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations on your offer of a place to study English Language and Literature (Q300) at Newcastle University!\u00a0This email comes to you from two lecturers who hope to welcome you to our department this autumn:\u00a0Cristine Cuskley is a Lecturer in Language and Cognition and\u00a0James Harriman-Smith is a lecturer in\u00a0Eighteenth-Century\u00a0Literature.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/english_239-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/english_239-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/english_239-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/english_239-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/english_239.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone at Newcastle University is currently&nbsp;hard at work updating our teaching for the autumn, and module-specific reading lists for you will be available later in the summer. However, in the meantime, we encourage you&nbsp;to&nbsp;delve into some more general material to get you excited about getting started in your studies.&nbsp;To help with this, we have two recommendations for you, one for language and one for literature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, for English language:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like you to\u00a0<strong>listen\u00a0to an episode of BBC sounds<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0T<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3csxgb8\" target=\"_blank\">he Future of English: Dialects and Evolution<\/a>. They look at varieties of English all over the world \u2013 have a listen and think about the differences they discuss.\u00a0You might then want to read this\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200414-the-many-lanuages-still-missing-from-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\">long article<\/a>\u00a0on English dominating the internet and this video on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5iLpKFA1ADQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">weirdness of English<\/a>.\u00a0What do\u00a0<em>you\u00a0<\/em>think about the future of English?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Features English is missing - but most other languages have\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iLpKFA1ADQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, for English literature:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\u00a0would like you to make a list of every book you remember having studied in your English (or \u2018English\u00a0Literature\u2019) classes, and then think about what this list might show you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/A-Level-books-banner-1024x378.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/A-Level-books-banner-1024x378.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/A-Level-books-banner-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2020\/06\/A-Level-books-banner-768x284.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>What do these books have in common?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/li><li><em>Are they mainly novels, plays or poems?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/li><li><em>When were they written?\u00a0<\/em> <\/li><li><em>What kind of things are they about?<\/em>\u00a0<\/li><li><em>Where do their authors come from?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/li><li><em>What class, gender, age (etc.) are those authors?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you have answered these questions, and others of your own devising, the next step is two-fold. First, identify a work of literature that has nothing in common with anything on your list. Perhaps that might be a book of poems by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org\/works\/pco62-w0010.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a working-class woman who lived in the eighteenth century and wrote about domestic servitude<\/a>; perhaps that might be a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1JC9gQn8-e_hL6vZGPBENdt_a3QEkcZVmbi3rv4_xNzE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">play written and performed in the last two years<\/a>. Why not&nbsp;read&nbsp;(or watch) that thing? As you engage with it, think about how you might write about it: can you analyse it like you analysed the texts you studied this year? What else do you feel you need to know?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would love to hear what you thought about&nbsp;the future of English, and&nbsp;what you realised about how you\u2019ve been taught English&nbsp;Literature. You can&nbsp;in touch with us&nbsp;about these matters, or anything else,&nbsp;through&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:english@ncl.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a>&nbsp;or on social media (links below).&nbsp;You can&nbsp;also&nbsp;find even more tips and resources on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCL_English\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter page<\/a>, or by searching the hashtag #NCLReady.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Harriman-Smith&nbsp;and Christine Cuskley&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone Congratulations on your offer of a place to study English Language and Literature (Q300) at Newcastle University!\u00a0This email comes to you from two lecturers who hope to welcome you to our department this autumn:\u00a0Cristine Cuskley is a Lecturer in Language and Cognition and\u00a0James Harriman-Smith is a lecturer in\u00a0Eighteenth-Century\u00a0Literature.\u00a0 Everyone at Newcastle University is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/2020\/06\/29\/english-literature-language-q300-email-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;English Literature &amp; Language (Q300), Email 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,13,15,14,11,9],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offer-holder","tag-nclready","tag-english","tag-language","tag-literature","tag-newcastleuniversity","tag-offerholder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}