English Language and Literature BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Combine your passion for linguistics with your love of literature.
Our English Language and Literature BA enables you to explore the relationship between linguistic structure and its literary heritage – and how language operates in both society and literature.
You'll be part of a close-knit community of staff and students who all support each other. You'll work across a range of disciplines, tailoring your degree to your interests.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent School of English graduates have found jobs as:
publishing administrator, Little Brown Book Group
intern, Royal Society of Literature
marketing trainee, BBC.

You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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Subjects

  • Phonology
  • English Language
  • English
  • Linguistic Typology
  • History of English
  • Forensic Linguistics
  • The Uncanny
  • Word & Image
  • Science and Literature
  • Pragmatics

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Acts of Writing 1
  • Approaches to Meaning
  • Critical Approaches 1
Spring teaching
  • Acts of Writing 2
  • Critical Approaches 2
  • Investigating Language in Context
  • Structure of English
Year 2 at sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • Approaches to Discourse
  • For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
  • Great Ideas about Language
  • Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Modernism and Childhood
  • Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Reading Post-Colonial Texts
  • Science and Literature
  • Social Variation in English
  • The Art of Short Fiction
  • The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
  • Word & Image
Spring teaching
  • Contemporary Literature and Culture
  • History of English
  • Language Change
  • Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
  • Modernisms
  • Pragmatics
  • Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
  • Romance
  • Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
  • The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
  • Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
  • Victorian Things
  • Word & Image
  • Writing Poetry
Study abroad or Placement

Study abroad (optional)

Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.

Placement (optional)

A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for .

Year 3 at sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
  • Experimental Writing
  • Islam, Literature and the 'West'
  • Queer Literatures
  • Research Proposal (English Language)
  • Special Author(s): Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the Postcolonial Caribbean
  • Special Author: Christopher Marlowe
  • Special Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Special Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Special Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Special Author: Salman Rushdie
  • Special Author: Thomas Hardy
  • Special Author: Virginia Woolf
  • Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Special Author: William Blake
  • Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640
  • Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
  • The Literatures of Africa
  • The Uncanny
  • Topics in Discourse and Communication
  • Topics in Language Variation and Change
  • Topics in Linguistic Analysis
  • Utopias and Dystopias
Spring teaching
  • Child Language Acquisition
  • Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
  • Forensic Linguistics
  • History of English
  • Linguistic Typology
  • Phonology
  • Pragmatics
  • Research Dissertation (English Language)
  • Research Dissertation (English)
  • School Placement Project

Additional information

International students Fee :  £16,750 per year

English Language and Literature BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.