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BA English Language and Linguistics

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll be able to study and analyse different types of data, including qualititative and quantitative, and use technology to solve problems. You’ll have an advanced understanding of communication and strong research skills, while you’ll be able to think critically about the information you find. What’s more, because you’ve managed two subjects during your degree, you’ll have good organisational and time management skills.

As a result, graduates have pursued a wide range of careers including publishing, law, advertising and marketing, journalism, education, charity work and business and finance. Many also move into postgraduate study, including further training for careers in roles such as teaching or speech and language therapy.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature).

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in English and grade A in the EPQ.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Key Concepts of English Language Study: One

  • Key Concepts of English Language Study: Two

  • Language: Meaning and Use

  • Key Skills in Linguistics

  • Language: Structure and Sound

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Power of Language

  • Language in Society

  • Phonetics

  • Syntax

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Remixing the Renaissance

  • Style and Authorship

  • Dialect and Heritage

  • Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind

  • Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media

  • Language of the Media

  • Towards the Future: Skills in Context

  • Psycholinguistics

  • The Life Cycle of Languages

  • Representation, Identity and Control

  • Language and Gender

  • Language Acquisition

  • Language Change

  • Interactional Linguistics

  • Global Environmental Humanities

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • English Language Dissertation

  • Digital Englishes

  • Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind

  • Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media

  • Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913

  • The Politics of Language

  • `Global English? Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation

  • Languages in Contact

  • Syntactic Theory

  • Language and Gender

  • Language and Gender

  • Language Acquisition

  • Linguistics Dissertation

  • Representation, Identity and Control

  • The Life Cycle of Languages

  • Language Change

  • Interactional Linguistics

  • Language Processing

  • Sociophonetics

  • Social Movements across Cultures

  • Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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