English and Linguistics - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

The course will equip you with the tools needed to analyse language, and discusses the immense power that language has to construct meaning. You’ll study literature from the Renaissance period to the 21st Century, as well as professional and creative writing.

The course is extremely flexible, offering a wide range of optional modules that allow you to pursue your passion and interests. It combines aspects of a traditional English and Linguistics degree with elements that are at the cutting-edge of English and Linguistics today. By the end of the course, you’ll have a deep appreciation of the origins, appreciation, and the rich diversity of the written and spoken word.

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Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

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About this course

Our recent English 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; and
jigsaw systems – product manager.

Other careers could include:

publishing;
PR;
marketing;
speech and language therapy; and
teaching English as a foreign language.

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 are unsure whether the qualifications you have, or are currently studying for, meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Appreciation
  • Writing
  • International
  • Humanities
  • Dissertation
  • Modernism
  • Modernity
  • Linguistics

Course programme

Year One
  • Foundations in Literary Studies
  • American Literature: Writing Self and Nation
  • Introduction to Language and Linguistics
  • Language in Context
Year Two
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • Applying Methods in Linguistics
  • 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
Linguistics optional modules
  • Communication Disorders
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Child Language Acquisition
  • Phonetics
  • Discourse Analysis
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
Linguistics optional modules
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language, Gender and Sexuality
  • Clinical Linguistics
  • Media Discourse
  • Forensic Linguistics

English and Linguistics - BA (Hons)

Price on request