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BA (Hons) English Language & Literature

University of Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

On our English Language and Literature course you’ll explore and analyse a range of texts and literary techniques – from classics of English Literature to popular media such as films and adverts.

You get to ‘design your own course’ based on your interests. With our optional modules, you get the choice of studying an array of genres - including American literature, science fiction, graphic novels and fairy tales. Take your pick!

You can also explore a wide range of literary styles and techniques – from semantics and pragmatics to stylistics, gender and language, education and language, and corpus linguistics. The choice is yours.

General Eligibility

  • UCAS: 104-112 points at A2 including English or related subject

  • BTEC Extended Diploma: DMM including English or related subject

  • BTEC Diploma: D*D-D*D* including English or related subject

  • Pass Access Course: 104-112 points including English or related subject

  • International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 104-112 points from Higher Level subjects including English or related subject

  • T Level: M including English or related subject

  • IELTS: 6.0 with no score lower than 5.5

  • GCSEs: 5 at grade C/4 including Maths and English or equivalent

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules:

  • Reading Texts: Literary Theory

  • Introduction to Renaissance Literature

  • Meaning in Interaction

  • ELSIE (English Language Studies Initiative for Employability)

  • Sounds and Structures of English

Optional modules:

  • Language Variation in Society

  • Language, Gender and Identity

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • A World of Difference: Literature in Translation

  • From Romantics to Decadents: Literary Culture 1789 - 1900

  • Language and Literature

  • Academic Writing and Graduate Development

Optional modules

  • American Texts

  • Reading and Writing Fairy Tales

  • Live Literature Project

  • The Graphic Novel

  • CSI: Literature

  • Sociolinguistics

  • Framing the News

  • Language, Mind and Brain

  • Metaphor and Meaning

  • History of English

  • English Accents and Dialects

  • Approaches to Syntax

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules:

  • The Shock of the New: Modern & Contemporary Literature

  • English Literature Dissertation

  • English Language & Linguistics dissertation

Optional modules:

  • Otherworlds: Reading and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Black Atlantic Writing

  • British Children's Literature

  • Literature into Film

  • Shakespeare, Text and Performance

  • The Gothic in Literature, Visual Culture and Film

  • Language and Power

  • Forensic Linguistics

  • Clinical Linguistics and Language Pathology

  • Graduate Career Planning

  • English Phonology

  • English Syntax

  • World Grammars: contrastive linguistics

  • Discourse, Argumentation, Rhetoric

  • English in Education

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69
IELTS: Score of 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5

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For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

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