About this program
English Language BA Honours
This English Language BA Honours course ;encourages you to explore the English language in all its diversity – past and present, national and international, offline and online.
You'll investigate how English has developed over time. We'll look at how the language is used to mark regional, social and stylistic distinctions. You will learn from experts and world-leading researchers in English Language and Linguistics.
During this three-year English Language degree, you will:
- study how English has evolved over time, how it is acquired, and how it develops in the mind
- examine the grammatical structures and sound systems of different varieties of English
- explore how historical, social and other contexts impact variation in English
- learn different methodologies for studying the use and complexities of English
Admission requirements
Entry requirements and Offers
All candidates are considered on an individual basis and we accept a broad range of qualifications. The entrance requirements and offers below apply to 2023 entry.
A-Level
ABB, excluding General Studies. We welcome candidates with an A Level in English Language, although this is not required. We welcome candidates with an A Level in Psychology, Sociology, Maths, or Science.
International Baccalaureate
34 points.
Candidates who have some background in Maths and Science may be interested in the cognitive/brain science and quantitative elements of the course. Candidates who prefer Arts and Humanities subjects may be interested in the historical, sociological, and literary elements of the course.
English Language requirements
IELTS - Applicants whose first language is not English require a minimum score of IELTS 7.0 or equivalent including 6.0 in writing, and 5.5 in all other sub-skills.
TOEFL - 100 overall (with a minimum of 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 20 in Writing)
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
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Stage 1
- The Nature of Language
- Introduction to the Structure of Language 1: Syntax and Phonology
- Introduction to the Structure of Language 2: Morphology and Meaning
- Language Variation and Change: Dealing with Data
Stage 2
- Sociolinguistics
- Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
Stage 3
- Career Development for final year students
- Phonological Theory
- Introduction to Child and Adult Language Acquisition
- Syntactic Theory
- Sociolinguistics
- Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
- Speakers as Wordsmiths: the creation of new words in present-day English
- Experimental Methods in Linguistics
- Multilingualism
- Linguistic Controversies
- Topics in Phonological Theory
- English Grammar through Time
- Language in the City
- Extended Study 1: Linguistics and English Language
- Extended Study 2: Linguistics and English Language
- Dissertation: Linguistics and English Language
- The History of Linguistic Ideas
- Language and Ageing
- Comparative Syntax: English in a cross-linguistic context
- Second Language Acquisition
- Pragmatic Theory
- Child Language Acquisition
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Program delivery
You can normally expect to spend around 10 hours per week attending lectures, seminars, workshops and film screenings. You also spend around 25 hours per week on class preparation, reading, writing, and other kinds of independent research recommended by your lecturers.
Tuition
Full time tuition fees
- Home: £9,250(per year)
- International: £21,000(per year)
Career paths
English Language and Linguistics students acquire a range of valuable skills which equip them to pursue diverse career paths.
Your training can be used in:
- teaching English as a foreign language
- publishing
- journalism
- advertising, branding and marketing
- information services and data science
You will gain skills such as critical reasoning and problem solving, project and data management, oral and written communication, collaboration and independent research.
Our degrees provide excellent preparation for a wide number of professions. With further training, our graduates have also become:
- lexicographers
- translators and interpreters
- speech and language therapists
- social researchers
- legal sector workers (including forensic linguists)
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Newcastle University
A Global Top 125 university (QS World University Rankings 2023), Newcastle is home to 29,000 students from 140 countries. A founding member of the Russell Group, we are one of only 19 universities in the world – and just three...
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