English Language BA Honours

Course Overview

This three-year English Language BA Honours degree encourages you to explore language. You'll investigate how English has developed over time and how it's used to mark social, regional, and stylistic distinctions. You will learn from subject experts, world-leading researchers in literary and linguistic studies, and internationally acclaimed writers throughout your degree. You'll be able to immerse yourself in local culture at venues such as Seven Stories, The Wordsworth Trust, and the Literary and Philosophical Society, while your degree study examines: how English is acquired and develops in the mind the grammatical structure of English and general phonetics/phonology the social and historical context of variation in English methodologies for studying the human language faculty

General Eligibility

A Level: AAB-ABB IB: 34-35 points

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• Applicants whose first language is not English require a minimum score of IELTS 6.5 or equivalent with no less than 5.5 in each of the four elements of the test.