English literature and linguistics ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your English Literature and Linguistics degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

Compulsory

• English in Practice
• English in Use
• Foundations of Language
• Reading, Theory and Interpretation: Approaches to the Study of English Literature

Choose from

• Introduction to English Syntax
• Introduction to Phonology
• Language in the UK
• Languages of the World
• Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Century
• Narrative
• Poetry
• Shakespeare

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2

Choose two modules across three subject areas

1. Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
• Renaissance Literary Culture

2. Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century city
• Romantics and Revolutionaries
• Victorian Fictions

3. Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

• Modernism
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures
• The Long Contemporary

Choose from

• Aspects of Meaning
• Explaining Grammatical Structure
• History of English
• Language and Mind
• Language in the USA
• Research Methods in Linguistics
• Semantics of African American English

You also choose modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
• Black and Asian Writing in Britain
• Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
• Satire, Scandal and Society
• The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
• Women and their writing in the Romantic Period

This is a sample of English modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

You choose your final-year modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include

• Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice
• British Fictions of the 1960s
• Constructing a Language
• Creative Writing Prose Fiction
• Developmental Disorders of Language and Cognition
• Gender and Language
• Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
• James Joyce's Ulysses
• Language and Health Communication
• Meaning in the Real World, Sex
• Reading William Blake
• Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
• Writing Modern London
• Writing Muslims

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English Literature and Linguistics BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules may require you to buy tickets to shows or exhibitions (often at a discounted rate) as well as pay for travel within London.