English Language and Literature : BA Hons : Q302

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Do you want to study a wide range of authors, genres, historical periods, literary movements, techniques and critical approaches? Would you like to combine this with discovering how the language at the heart of key literary texts actually functions? A joint English Language and Literature degree could be the answer.

You’ll be taught by the country’s largest Linguistics and English Language department and an English Literature department which has a cutting-edge approach to literary study. Our highly-rated undergraduate programme encourages a highly creative approach to projects.

The core modules in your first year will give you a strong foundation in English Language and English Literature. We’ll cover plays, films, short stories, novels and poetry from the sixteenth century to the modern day. You’ll master lexis, grammar and phonetics as well as descriptive concepts such as accents and dialects.

In your second year you’ll study core modules of Stylistics and The Theory and Practice of Criticism. You’ll also be able to choose from modules ranging from British Romanticism to The Language of Advertising. In your third year you are free to specialise in genres and periods that especially interest you such as Advanced English Phonetics, Victorian Gothic or Forensic Linguistics. In your final year you’ll also choose the materials, issues and themes you’d like to explore in greater depth by writing a dissertation.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

Lancaster’s English Language and Literature degree helps you develop an analytical approach to working and refine crucial interpersonal and communication skills, which will be of great value in your future employment.

Your degree will be of particular benefit if you wish to work 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 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.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level English Literature or English Language and Literature grade A

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • Advanced English
  • English
  • Phonetics
  • Grammar
  • Poetry
  • English Literature
  • Stylistics
  • American Literature
  • Romanticism

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
    • English Literature

Optional

    • Linguistics
Year 2

Core

    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Stylistics
    • The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

    • 18th Century Literature
    • American Literature to 1900
    • British Romanticism
    • Child Language Acquisition
    • Corporate communication
    • Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
    • Dissertation Preparation
    • English Grammar
    • English Phonetics
    • Independent Study
    • Language and Pedagogic Practice
    • Language Origins and Evolution
    • Literacy and Education
    • Literature, Film, and Media
    • Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
    • Sounds of the World's Languages
    • Structures of the World's Languages
    • The Language of Advertising
    • Understanding Media
    • Victorian Literature
Year 3

Optional

    • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • African Literature
    • Between the Acts
    • Bible and Literature
    • British and American Crime Stories 1840-2000
    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
    • Contemporary Literature in English
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Dissertation
    • Dissertation Unit
    • Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea
    • Elizabethan Embodiment
    • England and Englishness
    • 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
    • Literature and the Visual Arts
    • Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
    • Other Victorians
    • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
    • Premodern Gothic
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Representing Palestine: Creative Constructions of a Nation
    • Romantic and Victorian Poetry
    • Ruskin on Art, Architecture and Society
    • Schools Volunteering Module
    • Schools Volunteering Project
    • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Shakespeare
    • The Byron-Shelley Circle
    • The Impostor Novel: Impersonators and Charlatans in Modern Fiction
    • The Literature of Sleep
    • The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
    • Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory
    • Utopias and Utopianism
    • Victorian Autobiography
    • Victorian Gothic
    • Victorian Popular Fiction
    • Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
    • Women Writers of Britain and America

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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