BA English Language and Linguistics
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 points overall
About this course
BA in English Language and Linguistics and Linguistics, exploring how language operates in human life and society. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Language & Translation, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students may choose between a Professional Communication Project with a professional placement, or a Dissertation involving original research. Optional language modules and university-wide electives are also available.
Modules
- English Language and Society
- Techniques and Skills for Applied Linguistics
- Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
- Globalisation and Language
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules
- Approaches to Film
- Roman History: the rise and fall of the Republic
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Arriving in Britain: a History of Immigration, 1685-2004
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Discourse Analysis
- English Grammar and Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and the Mind
- Language and Gender
- Analysing Speech
- Introduction to English Language Teaching
- Language and Digital Media
- Noise Annoys: British Youth Culture, Popular Music and Social Change, 1950s-90s
- Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules
- Language in Professional Communication
- Professional Communication Project
- Dissertation
- Child Language Development
- Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
- Issues in Bilingualism
- Intercultural Communication
- Teaching the Language Skills
- Introduction to Speech and Language Pathology
- Language and Power
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules