BA English Language
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, an undergraduate degree centred on English Language and Linguistics. Core topics include Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Programming, Research Methods, and Statistics. Students can apply for paid research internships to work alongside academic staff on active projects. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as English across Space and Time, English in Use, Foundations of Language, and Linguistic Inquiry and Applications, alongside optional choices like World Literatures or Explaining Criminology. The second year shifts focus to data-driven and structural analysis with core modules including Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World, English Grammar, and English Phonetics, alongside options such as Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language, Discourse Studies, or Language Acquisition. The final year examines advanced social and variational aspects through compulsory modules like Language and Social Identities and Language Variation and Change in English. Optional modules in the final year allow students to specialise in areas such as Cognitive Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, or Pragmatics, with an opportunity to complete a Linguistics and English Language Dissertation.
Modules
- English across Space and Time
- English in Use
- Foundations of Language
- Linguistic Inquiry and Applications
- Language in Mind and Society
- World Literatures
- Explaining Criminology
- The Arts and Identity (Discovery module)
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- Researching Society: Principles and Practices
- Public Sociology: Understanding and Creating Social Change
- Re-Making Tradition
- Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World
- English Grammar
- English Phonetics
- Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language
- Discourse Studies
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Creativity in Advertising
- Language and Pedagogic Practice
- Professional Communication
- Sounds of the World's Languages
- Transnational Debates on Gender and Society
- Language and Social Identities
- Language Variation and Change in English
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Forensic Linguistics
- Language and Media
- Language, Culture and Cognition
- Linguistics and English Language Dissertation
- Phonetic and Phonological Theory
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics