BA English Language (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 (Placement Year), an English Language and Linguistics degree focusing on the structural, historical, and social dimensions of the English language. Core topics include Critical & Analytical Thinking, Research Methods, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Programming. Students undertake a full-year professional placement in industry during the third year and can complete an independent research project in the final year. 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. The second year examines data-driven and phonetic analysis through compulsory modules including Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World, English Grammar, and English Phonetics. The third year consists of a dedicated work-based learning placement. The final year deepens specialisation through compulsory studies in Language and Social Identities and Language Variation and Change in English. Optional modules across the course allow students to explore diverse areas such as computational applications, forensic linguistics, and psycholinguistics, alongside an optional final-year 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
- Work Based Learning Year
- 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