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English Language BA Honours (Q302)

Bachelor's degree

In Newcastle Upon Tyne ()

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

This degree explores the English language, which has over 330 million native speakers, and 810 million who speak it as a second language. If you want to find out more about how people learn and use English, and how the language has evolved over time, this is the degree for you.     

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Subjects

  • IT
  • English
  • English Language
  • Poetry
  • Writing
  • IT Development
  • School
  • Syntax
  • Career Development

Course programme

Course Details

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

Stage 1 Compulsory modules
  • SEL1007 The Nature of Language
  • SEL1012 Language Through Time: Introduction to the History of English
  • SEL1027 Shaping Sounds and Syntax
  • SEL1028 Building Blocks of Language
  • SEL1029 Language Across Space: Introduction to English Dialects

Alternatively, you may choose to take 40 credits of modules offered within Stage 1 of the Combined Honours degree programme.

Stage 2 Compulsory modules
  • SEL2091 Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language
  • SEL2212 Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
Optional modules

You take one of the following modules:

  • SEL2000 Phonological Theory
  • SEL2089 Syntactic Theory

You take a further three modules from the following list:

  • SEL2000 Phonological Theory
  • SEL2084 The Syntax of the World’s Languages
  • SEL2086 Introduction to Language Acquisition
  • SEL2089 Syntactic Theory
  • SEL2211 Contexts: Mind, Cognition and Computation
  • SEL2219 Monsters, Misery and Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
  • SEL2223 Speakers as Wordsmiths: the Creation of New Words in Present-Day English

You may replace one module from the above list for one module from the following list:

  • SEL2201 Reading the Renaissance
  • SEL2202 Writing New Worlds, 1660 - 1800
  • SEL2203 Revolutionary Britain, 1789 - 1832
  • SEL2204 Victorian Passions: Victorian Values
  • SEL2205 Fictions of Migration
  • SEL2206 Contemporary Cultures
  • SEL2207 Modernisms
  • SEL2216 Poetry, Script and Prose Workshop
  • SEL2217 Popular Performance Here and Now
  • NCL2007 Career Development for Second Year Students
  • NCL2100 Developing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employability
  • NCL2010 Career Management Module

Other optional modules may also be available from outside the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, to the same credit value.

Stage 3 Optional modules

You take one of the following modules:

  • SEL3326 Extended Study 1: Linguistics and English Language
  • SEL3327 Extended Study 2: Linguistics and English Language

You take five modules from the following list:

  • SEL3005 Language Origins and Evolution
  • SEL3012 Immigrant Second Language and Literacy Acquisition
  • SEL3349 History of Linguistic Ideas
  • SEL3006 Topics in Phonological Theory
  • SEL3341 Old English: Texts and Translations
  • SEL3343 Syntactic Puzzles and How to Solve Them
  • SEL3352 Language Development: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches
  • SEL3372 Language and Ethnicity in 21st Century Britain
  • SEL3094 Accents of English

You may replace one module from the list above for a module in the list below. Other optional modules may also be available from outside the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics:

  • SEL3379 Enlightened Romantics
  • SEL3373 Women of Virtue and Women of Pleasure
  • SEL3340 Journeys of the Imagination in Romantic Poetry
  • SEL3308 Murder, Mystery, Mayhem
  • SEL3338 Home, History, Heritage
  • SEL3346 Contemporary Documentary 1: Theory and Practice
  • SEL3319 Spielberg Generation
  • SEL3378 Landscapes of American Modernism
  • SEL3347 Contemporary Documentary 2: Theory and Practice
  • SEL3093 Coming of Age in the Renaissance
  • SEL3303 Writing Rebellion: The Literature of the English Revolution
  • SEL3090 Chaucer, Chivalry, and Heresy in the Middle Ages
  • SEL3091 Sex and Money: Economies of the Victorian Novel
  • SEL3390 A New Empire: Fiction and the Rise of Global Capitalism
  • SEL3323 English Ghost Story: Forms and Themes
  • SEL3389 Stage and Page: Character and Performance, 1660-1800
  • SEL3359 Victorian Dream Worlds
  • SEL3370 Writing the Postcolonial Nation: Literature from the Indian Subcontinent
  • SEL3388 Reading Contemporary Cultures
  • SEL3387 The Child: Representations in Literature and Culture
  • SEL3386 Modernist Poetry: Pound to the Beats

You may take one of the following modules:

  • NCL3007 Career Development for Final Year Students
  • NCL3008 Advanced Career Development for Final Year Students

It may also be possible to replace one module from the list above and take one of the following Stage 2 modules if not already taken:

  • SEL2000 Phonological Theory
  • SEL2084 The Syntax of the World’s Languages
  • SEL2086 Introduction to Language Acquisition
  • SEL2089 Syntactic Theory
  • SEL2211 Contexts: Mind, Cognition and Computation
  • SEL2219 Monsters, Misery and Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
  • SEL2223 Speakers as Wordsmiths: the Creation of New Words in Present-Day English

You may replace 20 credits from each of the first two lists in Stage 3, with the following optional module:

  • SEL3329 Dissertation: Linguistics and English Language

Careers English Language careers

English students acquire a range of valuable skills, which they can transfer to many different employment situations. Your literary and linguistic training can be used in journalism, librarianship, teaching and the highly competitive fields of writing, acting and directing.

You will also gain other skills such as the capacity to analyse and summarise material, to communicate, to work to a deadline, to argue a case, to work independently as well as collaboratively, to think logically and to be able to use computers.

This is excellent preparation for a wide number of professions and as such, our graduates have gone on to a variety of career areas including editorial, marketing, PR and other forms of media. Others have gone to work in law, politics, HR, teaching and supporting specialist learning.

Visit the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics website to watch video interviews with former students talking about their experiences at Newcastle and their careers since graduating.

Find out more about the career options for English Literature, Language and Linguistics from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.

English Language BA Honours (Q302)

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