English Language and Literature (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
3 Years
Combine your passion for linguistics with your love of literature. Our English Language and Literature (with a study abroad year) BA enables you to explore the relationship between linguistic structure and its literary heritage – and how language operates in both society and literature. You also have the opportunity to apply for a year studying abroad.
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.
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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
- English Language
- English
- Writing
- Literature Study
- Critical Approaches
- Acts of Writing
- Language in Context
- Structure of English
- Science and Literature
- Pragmatics
- Linguistic Typology
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- Acts of Writing 1
- Approaches to Meaning
- Critical Approaches 1
- Acts of Writing 2
- Critical Approaches 2
- Investigating Language in Context
- Structure of English
Options
Autumn teaching
- Approaches to Discourse
- For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
- Great Ideas about Language
- Modernism and Childhood
- Pidgins and Creoles
- Reading Post-Colonial Texts
- Science and Literature
- Social Variation in English
- The Art of Short Fiction
- The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
- Child Language Acquisition
- Language Change
- Linguistic Typology
- 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
- The Novel
- Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
- Victorian Things
- Word & Image
- Writing Poetry
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
Year 3 at sussex
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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
- Ways of Seeing: Early Modern Drama and Visual Culture
- 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
English Language and Literature (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)