English Language (Placement Year) : BA Hons : Q305

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

Taught by academics and scholars highly rated for both teaching and research, your degree course focuses on the analysis of contemporary and historical English.

You’ll begin your degree with our core English Language module. This wide-ranging module will introduce you to the English Language, how to describe it, how it varies, and how it functions in a variety of contexts. You will not only study the traditional linguistic areas of English (eg lexis, grammar, phonetics), but also areas that are often overlooked (eg letters, spellings) and areas that have more recently come to the fore, such as pragmatics or conversation analysis. You’ll also take two further subjects of your choice.

In your second year, you’ll move on to core subjects such as English Sounds and Structures. At Lancaster, we offer you a range of exciting options for the second and third year of your degree, such as Discourse Analysis; Stylistics; Forensic Linguistics; Language in the Workplace, Contemporary Methods in English Language Studies.

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.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

An English Language degree is suitable for careers at all levels in education as well as language related fields such as publishing, the media and information technology. It is also valuable in fields where international communication is important, like science, trade and international relations.

Recent graduates have gone onto work or train as teachers, speech therapists, computer programmers and consultants, bankers, chartered accountants, personnel managers, journalists and social workers. Our English Language in the Media degree is an ideal preparation for a career in the media, while studying abroad is a great way to make your CV stand out. A sizeable proportion of our graduates take up employment overseas.


Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level AAB

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • Communication Training
  • English
  • Phonetics
  • Grammar
  • Linguistics
  • Developing
  • Dissertation Preparation
  • English Phonetics
  • Language Acquisition

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
    • Placement Preparation

Optional

    • Linguistics
Year 2

Core

    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Dissertation Preparation
    • English Grammar
    • English Phonetics
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Child Language Acquisition
    • Corporate communication
    • Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
    • Independent Study
    • Introduction to Intercultural Communication
    • Language and Pedagogic Practice
    • Language Origins and Evolution
    • Literacy and Education
    • Sounds of the World's Languages
    • Structures of the World's Languages
    • Stylistics
    • The Language of Advertising
    • Understanding Media
Year 3

Core

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

Core

    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Dissertation

Optional

    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • 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
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Schools Volunteering Module
    • Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory

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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