BA English Language and Linguistics
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Linguistics, an English Language and Linguistics degree centred on the scientific study of communication, historical development, and societal variation. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Human Behaviour, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. In the final year, students complete a dissertation based on their accumulated studies across the programme. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning, From English to Englishes, and Language Acquisition, alongside optional choices in related subjects. The second year advances core knowledge with compulsory modules including Sound and Voice, Syntax: Studying Language Structure, and Variation and Change in English, while offering option modules that span corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics. The final year centres on the compulsory Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation, complemented by specialized options such as English as a Global Language, Digital Media, Language and Communication, and Language and Speech Disorders.
Modules
- Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning
- From English to Englishes
- Language Acquisition
- Language, Ideologies and Attitudes
- Structure of English
- The Making of Modern English
- Applied Ethics
- Literary Transformations
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- Understanding History and Society
- World Dramas
- Sound and Voice
- Syntax: Studying Language Structure
- Variation and Change in English
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Desire and Decay: Literature of the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Discourse Analysis
- English on the Move
- Globalisation: Culture, Language and the Nation State
- Health, Culture, and Discrimination
- Intercultural Communication in a Global World
- Language, Power and Institutions: How Linguistic Practices Can Shape Our Lives
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Multilingualism
- Psycholinguistics
- Queering the Digital
- Researching Language, Culture and Communication in the Global World
- Speech Acts
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- The EU and European Identity
- The Worlding of English Literature
- Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation
- English as a Global Language
- Digital Media, Language and Communication
- Language and Speech Disorders
- Language and the City
- Rethinking Autism
- Second Language Acquisition
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Sociophonetic Project Module