STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND 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, which is automatically available in 55 languages and, by special request, for any other that has sufficient written literature
•  Language A: language and literature, which is available in 17 languages.
•  Literature and performance, which is automatically available in English, and by special request in Spanish
  and French.

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.