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BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics with Literature

University of Portsmouth ( Navitas ), United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Build on your interest of English language and literature and prepare yourself for a successful career on this BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics with Literature degree.

You'll discover how we use language in literature and digital communication, examine forensic linguistics and learn how people use the English language across the world. You’ll also study literature from classics to the contemporary and become an expert in reading, analysing and discussing the written works that inspire you.

Your studies will set you up for a career where your communication, creative, management and critical thinking skills will shine. You could work in areas such as publishing, teaching, advertising and marketing after the course or do postgraduate study.

General Eligibility

  • A levels – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112-128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, including 32 points from A level English

  • International Baccalaureate – 26

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Placement year

On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry.

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

2 Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

  • How Language Works

  • Language, Learning and Teaching

  • Language, Society and Mind: An Introduction to Linguistics 

  • Investigating Language Practices

  • Working with Texts

3 Year 2

Core modules:

  • English Forms and Functions

  • Meaning in English

Optional modules:

  • Bloody Shakespeare: The Politics and Poetics of Violence

  • Clinical Linguistics

  • Crime Writing

  • Dystopian and Apocalyptic Environments: Ecocrisis in the Literary Imagination

  • Forensic Linguistics

  • Intercultural Perspectives on Communication

  • Language in Literature: Stylistics

  • Managing Across Cultures

  • Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)

  • News, Discourse and Media

  • Professional Experience L5

  • Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature

  • Second Language Acquisition

  • Space, Place and Being

  • TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

  • Trinity Certificate Teaching Practice

  • Women's Writing in the Americas

4 Year 3

Core module:

  • Dissertation / Major Project

Optional modules:

  • Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture

  • Creativity in the Language Classroom

  • English Through Time

  • Englishes in the World

  • Gender, Language and Sexuality

  • Holocaust Literatures

  • Introduction to Teaching

  • Language and Social Media

  • Magical Realism

  • Neo-Historical Fiction

  • Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates

  • Professional Experience L6

  • Spoken Discourse in the Workplace

  • Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction

  • US Masculinities

  • Written Discourse in the Workplace

Language Requirement

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0(with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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