Studies in Language & Literature

The courses offer a broad range of texts, and students grow to appreciate a language’s complexity, wealth and subtleties in a variety of contexts. Students take their studies in a language in which they are academically competent.

The subject consists of three courses:

Language A: literature
Language A: language and literature
Literature and performance

Through each course, students are able to develop:

a personal appreciation of language and literature
critical-thinking skills in their interaction with a range of texts from different periods, styles, text-types and literacy forms
an understanding of the formal, stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts
strong powers of expression, both written and oral
an appreciation of cultural differences in perspective
an understanding of how language challenges and sustains ways of thinking.

Through studies in language and literature, the DP aims to develop a student's lifelong interest in language and literature, and a love for the richness of human expression.

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