English Language and Linguistics (Placement Year) : BA Hons : QQC4

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s degree in English Language and Linguistics gives you the opportunity to learn from award-winning staff and national teaching fellows in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, ranked fourth for Linguistics in the Complete University Guide 2016.

You’ll study areas of the English language which interest you – from English in literature to English accents and dialects - alongside wider questions relating to the sound, grammar and meaning systems of different languages. You’ll gain valuable analytical skills by addressing how language relates to thought; how children acquire languages, and comparing language with animal signalling systems.

You’ll begin your degree with courses including Linguistics and English Language. In your second year, you’ll study subjects such as The Structures of Language and English Sounds and Structures. You’ll complete your degree with a Dissertation and modules including Topics in Linguistic Theory and/or Contemporary Methods in English Language Studies.

You will have the opportunity to spend Year 3 on placement with a public, private or voluntary organisation in the UK or overseas. This experience will boost your employment prospects and will help you to decide on your career direction and the kind of organisation in which you want to work once you graduate. You will be doing a real, responsible job – with all the satisfaction that brings. Our Placements Team will support you in finding and applying for a suitable placement that will support your professional development. Applying for a placement is a competitive process and the preparatory modules you will complete in years one and two are designed to give you the best chance of success in your placement applications. You will also be provided with dedicated workshops, 1:1 appointments with careers professionals as well as opportunities to speak with employers here on campus.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

A degree in English Language and Linguistics helps you to develop an enquiring mind with analytical thinking – some of the many transferable skills that will increase your value to a potential employer.

Your degree teaches you valuable expertise that’s of particular benefit for careers in education, language teaching, speech therapy, translation, information technology, management, the mass media, creative arts, social work and counselling. A sizeable proportion of our graduates take up employment overseas.

Recent Lancaster graduates have gone on to work or train as speech therapists, teachers of English overseas, teachers of English as a mother tongue, computer programmers and consultants, bankers, chartered accountants, personnel managers, journalists and social workers.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level AAB

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • English
  • Systems
  • Grammar
  • Communication Training
  • Linguistics
  • English Grammar
  • English Phonetics
  • Communication
  • Independent Study

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • English Language
    • Linguistics
    • Placement Preparation
Year 2

Core

    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Dissertation Preparation
    • English Grammar
    • English Phonetics
    • Sounds of the World's Languages
    • Structures of the World's Languages
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Child Language Acquisition
    • Corporate communication
    • Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
    • Independent Study
    • Introduction to Intercultural Communication
    • Language and Pedagogic Practice
    • Language Origins and Evolution
    • Literacy and Education
    • Stylistics
    • The Language of Advertising
    • Understanding Media
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
    • Work Based Learning Reflection
Year 4

Core

    • Dissertation

Optional

    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Forensic Linguistics
    • Language and Identities: Gender, ethnicity and class
    • Language Change in English and Beyond
    • Language in the Workplace: Topics in Professional Communication
    • Language, Culture and Thought
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Schools Volunteering Module
    • Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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English Language and Linguistics (Placement Year) : BA Hons : QQC4

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