BAEnglish Language and Literature

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA
Course code	QQ23

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

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Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
Sounds
Skills for Linguists
Language Variation and Change
Words and Sentences
Literature: Origins and Transformations
Introduction to United States Literature (optional)
Close Reading Skills (optional)

Year 2

Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
Phonology
Semantics and Pragmatics
Analysing the structure of English
Research methods for language and linguistics
Early Modern Literature
Versions of Modernity

Final year

Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
Post-War(s) United States Fiction (optional)
Film and Propaganda (optional)
Varieties of English (optional)
Project: Linguistics (optional)
Sentence Processing (optional)

Career opportunities

Our graduates have gone on to have careers in a wide variety of fields, including teaching (in the UK and abroad), journalism, branding, advertising, marketing, travel, communications, publishing, speech and occupational therapy, interpreting, translating and media.

For example, one of our department’s recent graduates is now a Learning Support Assistant at a High School in Suffolk, whilst another is a Speech and Language Therapist with the NHS, and another teaches English in South Korea.