Communication & Society and English - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

It enables you to shape your study according to your strengths, interests and career ambitions. Combining two subjects can give your degree an international or industry perspective that will make you stand out in the graduate employment market.

Our course combinations are designed so that what you learn in one subject will complement and enhance what you learn in the other. In your final year you can choose either to split your time evenly between your two subjects, or to specialise in one. Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for you too. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enables you to take part in optional work placements or go on an international exchange.

By choosing English and Communication & Society you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of optional modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. These two subjects have a natural synergy and will provide you with a unique perspective on culture, communication and society throughout the ages.

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Location

Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

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About this course

Our recent English and Communication & Society Joint Honours graduates have gone onto careers in:

Local Government – teacher (Secondary English)
JRS – market researcher
Vision Twentyone – social research interviewer
Lightdragon Ltd / Food Network UK – content producer
jigsaw systems – product manager.

Other career areas could include:

publishing
PR
marketing
advertising
journalism
recruitment.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you’re unsure whether your qualifications meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • English
  • Perspective
  • International
  • Communications
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Publicity
  • Culture
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Literature

Course programme

Year One
  • Foundations in Literary Studies
  • American Literature: Writing Self and Nation
  • Face-to-Face to Facebook: Understanding Communication in an Age of New Media
  • Introducing Media Communications: Publicity, Persuasion and Propaganda
  • Media Communications and Digital Cultures
  • Psychology of Communication
Year Two
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Explorations of Identity and Selfhood
  • Humanities at work
English optional modules
  • Renaissance Literature, 1485 – 1660: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
  • British Women Writers between the Wars (1918 – 1939)
  • Romantic Revolutions 1780 – 1851
  • Writing Works
  • American Topics
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Voices and Visions
Communication & Society optional modules
  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 1: The New Creativity
  • Communications and Creativity Toolkit
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Media and Culture in Asia
  • Digital Identities: The Politics of Communication in the Globalised World
Year Three
  • Dissertation
  • The Creative Writing Dissertation
  • English and Creative Industries Project
English optional modules
  • Early Modern Poetry and Prose
  • American Specialisms
  • Reading Gender and Sexuality
  • Postcolonial Texts: Narratives of Liberation
  • Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts and Theory
  • Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries
  • Literature in Theory: Writing, Technology, and the World
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Nuclear Literature
Communication & Society optional modules
  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 2: Convergence and Creativity in the Digital Age
  • Self in Crisis: Power, Prejudice and Otherness
  • DJ Cultures: History, Theory and Technique
  • Trans-National and Alternative Media
  • Humanity in the Natural World

Communication & Society and English - BA (Hons)

Price on request