BA (Hons) English and English Language
Course overview
| Qualification | Bachelor's Degree |
| Study mode | Full-time |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Intakes | September |
| Tuition (Local students) | Data not available |
| Tuition (Foreign students) | Data not available |
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Entry Requirements
- GCSE: For all applicants, Grade C or above, or Grade 4 under newly reformed GCSE grading, in English Language, or equivalent. Please note the University does not accept Level 2 Key Skills, Functional Skills or Certificates in Adult Numeracy and Literacy as suitable alternatives to GCSEs.
- A-level subjects: No specific subjects required. Points from A-Level General Studies and AS-Level subjects (not taken onto full A-Level) can be included towards overall tariff. You must have a minimum of two A-Levels.
- Relevant subjects: English, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences
- EDEXCEL (BTEC) Diploma: No specific subjects required.
- Access: Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma; to include 30 level 3 credits at merit.
- Baccalaureate IB: No specific subjects required.
Curriculum
Year one
First year modules are designed to build on your ability and enjoyment of literature while providing a broad introduction on the evolution of English. You will also start to examine language structure and how it is applied in different texts.
- Creativity, Critique and Literature
- Literature and Ideas
- English: Past, Present and Future
- Meaning: Style and Discourse
Year two
As you progress, you will hone your written and presentation skills through researching and developing informed opinions on literature. Throughout you will be challenged by the latest methods of critical analysis and encouraged to develop an independent approach.
- Language, Research and the Workplace
- Analysing Culture: Language and the Visual
- Forms of Reading/Reading Forms
Plus one of the following optional modules:
- Shakespeare's World of Words
- Romanticism Unbound
- Exploring the Eighteenth Century
- British Writing 1900-1950
- Imagining America: Cultural and Literary Legacies of the United States, 1830-1970
- Victorian Frictions
All students are encouraged to spend their third year on placement.
Final year
In your final year, you can focus on a specific topic of interest with the option to do either an English Independent Project or Language Project (or equivalent). The Project can take a variety of forms such as a traditional dissertation, a creative writing project, a project based on work-placements or compiling and editing a critical anthology.
You will study two of the following English optional modules:
- English Independent Project*
- Children's Fiction Since 1900
- Fiction in Britain since 1970
- Literature and Culture in Britain 1885-1930
- Contemporary American Narrative
- Gothic Literature
- Moving Words: Travel Writing and Modernity
Plus two of the following English Language optional modules:
- Language Project*
- The Sociolinguistics of Language Contact
- The Cultural History of the English Language
- Gender (Im)politeness and Power in Language
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Creative Writing and the Self
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Analysing Spoken English
*You may only chose one project module in Year 3