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BA(Hons) History and English Language

University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

If you enjoy learning about the past and youre also fascinated by the use of language and how it shapes the world around us, then this course is for you. We cover a broad range of topics enabling you to explore medieval and modern history, while also specializing within English language and linguistics. History has a 91.6% student satisfaction rating (NSS 2020). You can choose option modules to focus on the topics that interest you the most. Youll gain valuable real-world experience. In Year 2 youll also have the chance to go on a work placement, designed to enhance your skills ready for employment. Innovative assessments such as analyzing childrens speech development, pitching an idea for a historical video game, or creating a visitor trail for a national museum. State-of-the-art facilities including a forensic linguistics lab, research, and resource center, and conference labs. Our team of English academic staff is ranked in the top 5 in the UK for the quality of their research publications (REF 2014). On the course, youll be introduced to the basic concepts and theories of linguistics. Well encourage you to study the role of language in society and how it helps humans understand things: how we acquire it, how it changes and evolves, and how it forms such an array of ways to communicate. Well carry out conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, and stylistics to get under the surface of the spoken or written word.

General Eligibility

A Level - BBB-BBC

BTEC - DDM-DMM

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Core modules:

  • Early Medieval Europe: c500 - 1215

  • Twentieth Century Britain

  • Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

Option modules:

Two options from a list which may include:

  • Approaches to Language Study

  • Introduction to Stylistics

  • History of English

  • Sociolinguistics

2 Year 2

Core modules:

  • Research Skills

  • Work Experience Placement

  • Linguistic Fieldwork

Option modules:

One option from a list which may include:

  • Hitler's Germany: Life and Death in the Third Reich

  • Modern India: from Raj to Independence c.1860-1950

  • Hands on History: Voice Film and Material Culture

  • Holy Wars: The Age of Crusades

  • Reformation and Revolution

  • Growing Up in the Past: Oral Histories of Childhood and Youth

  • War Stories: Myth, Memory and Medical Services from 1853 to 1918

  • War, Peace and Humanity: 1899 - 1939

  • Histories of Africa: A Survey Since 1500

Then choose two options from a list which may include:

  • Communication across Cultures

  • Conversation Analysis

  • Stylistics

  • Corpus Linguistics

  • Pragmatics

  • Phonetics and Phonology

  • Syntax

3 Year 3 – optional placement year

Placement Year

4 Year 4

Option modules:

One option from a list which may include:

  • Dissertation (History in Practice)

  • Dissertation in English Language and Linguistics

  • Honours Level Project

Then choose up to three options from a list which may include:

  • The Elizabethan Age

  • History and Myth: Writing and Re-writing the Middle Ages

  • Henry's Empire

  • Britain on the Breadline

  • The Great War: Culture and Society

  • The Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance and Memory in Wartime France

  • Mindsets, Institutions and Madness

  • The Body and the City

  • Bloodlands: Historical Geography of Interwar East Central Europe

  • Making the Peace: 1918 - 1924

Then choose up to three options from a list which may include:

  • Relations Across Cultures

  • Translation in Practice

  • Audiovisual Translation

  • Language of Humour

  • Multilingualism

  • Language and Power

  • Child Language Acquisition

  • Face and Politeness

  • Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent.

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