English Language and Literature (Placement Year) : BA Hons : Q303

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

Your degree encourages you to cultivate a highly creative approach to projects and fosters a keen sense of imagination. Developing skills such as these will allow you to contribute fresh new ideas in any career you choose.

Our English Language and Creative Writing degrees are of particular benefit if you wish to work in education, translation, information technology, management, the mass media, creative arts, social work and counselling.

Recent graduates have gone 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 sizeable proportion of our graduates take up employment overseas.

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
During the placement year you will remain a Lancaster University student which means that you will still be eligible for a student loan, have access to facilities such as the library and receive discounts on transport and council tax. Your tuition fee will be reduced to 20% during the placement year.

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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 AAA-AAB

International Baccalaureate 36-35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 Higher Level subjects

BTEC Distinction, Distinction, Distinction

Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject including Distinctions in the majority of units

Other Qualifications We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • English
  • Poetry
  • Media
  • Communication Training
  • Writing
  • English Literature
  • World Literature
  • Stylistics
  • British 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
    • Placement Preparation

Optional

    • Linguistics
    • World Literature
Year 2

Core

    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Stylistics
    • The Theory and Practice of Criticism
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

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
    • Introduction to Intercultural Communication
    • 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

Core

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

Optional

    • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • African Literature
    • American Dissidents
    • American Literature from 1900
    • Between the Acts
    • Bible and Literature
    • British and American Crime Stories 1840-2000
    • Children in Horror Fiction and Film
    • Classic British Children's Fiction
    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
    • Contemporary Literature in English
    • Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries: Work Placement
    • Dissertation
    • Dissertation Unit
    • Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea
    • Elizabethan Embodiment
    • England and Englishness
    • Feminist perspectives on Early English drama
    • Final Year Group C Option (Additional two half units)
    • Final Year Group C Option (two half-units)
    • Forensic Linguistics
    • Geographies of Romance
    • Jane Austen
    • 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
    • Literary Film Adaptations, Hollywood 1939
    • Literature and Religion at the Fin de Siecle
    • Literature and the Visual Arts
    • Literatures of Identity
    • Modernism towards Postmodernism
    • Modernism, 1890-1945
    • Modes of the Fantastic
    • Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
    • Other Victorians
    • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
    • Premodern Gothic
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
    • Representing Palestine: Creative Constructions of a Nation
    • Researching Romanticism
    • Romantic and Victorian Poetry
    • Ruskin on Art, Architecture and Society
    • Schools Volunteering Module
    • Schools Volunteering Project
    • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Seeing Triple: Expansive American Fiction
    • Shakespeare
    • Terrorism, Violence, and the Sacred
    • The Break-Through Book: Five Twentieth-century Poets
    • The Byron-Shelley Circle
    • The Impostor Novel: Impersonators and Charlatans in Modern Fiction
    • The Literature of Sleep
    • The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
    • Thinking Through Twenty-First Century World Literature and Theory
    • Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory
    • Twenty-First Century Fiction
    • Utopia Colonialism and the New World
    • Utopias and Utopianism
    • Victorian Autobiography
    • Victorian Gothic
    • Victorian Popular Fiction
    • Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
    • Women and Poetry in America,1960 to the present
    • Women Writers of Britain and America
    • Writing in Lancaster Castle
    • Writing the Lancashire Witches

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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