BA English Language and Linguistics (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in English Language and Linguistics (Placement Year), an English Language and Linguistics degree focusing on the structure, variation, and societal roles of human communication. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The course includes a dedicated third-year work placement module allowing students to spend twelve months in a graduate-level industry role. The first year establishes core foundations through modules such as English across Space and Time, English in Use, Foundations of Language, Language in Mind and Society, and Linguistic Inquiry and Applications, alongside optional choices like Explaining Criminology and Global Challenges in World Politics. The second year advances into specialist areas with compulsory studies including English Grammar, English Phonetics, Sounds of the World's Languages, and Structures of the World's Languages, supported by options such as Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language and Discourse Studies. The final year comprises core modules in Language and Social Identities and Phonetic and Phonological Theory. Students can further tailor their studies through optional modules covering Cognitive Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, and Psycholinguistics, with an opportunity to complete an independent research project via the Linguistics and English Language Dissertation module.
Modules
- English across Space and Time
- English in Use
- Foundations of Language
- Language in Mind and Society
- Linguistic Inquiry and Applications
- Explaining Criminology
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World
- Researching Society: Principles and Practices
- English Grammar
- English Phonetics
- Sounds of the World's Languages
- Structures of the World's Languages
- Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language
- Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World
- Discourse Studies
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Creativity in Advertising
- Language and Pedagogic Practice
- Professional Communication
- Work Based Learning Year
- Language and Social Identities
- Phonetic and Phonological Theory
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Forensic Linguistics
- Language and Media
- Language Variation and Change in English
- Language, Culture and Cognition
- Linguistics and English Language Dissertation
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics