English Language and Linguistics BA 36 months Undergraduate Programme By University of Birmingham |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

36 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

26,400 GBPTuition Fee/year

Starting Month

SepStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

BA

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Discover how societies communicate and how language shapes our experience of the world around us.


Develop your technical knowledge of language, how it works, and how it is analysed and classified, then use this to understand how language is used in the world around us.


Course highlights


Choose from topics like the use of language in social media or business, how and why language varies in different contexts, and specialist areas such as authorship analysis, language and AI, psycholinguistics, and teaching English as a Foreign Language.


  • Develop your communication skills – understand how language shapes human behaviour, relationships and worldviews.
  • Explore a broad range of specialisms – choose from areas like historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, or language and media.
  • There’s plenty of opportunities for team work, group study and socialising with your ELAL coursemates. From developing a linguistics research project together to working with databases of language, you’ll really get a practical feel for the impact of linguistics.
  • Access excellent resources including our Linguistics Research Laboratory and online language databases (corpora).
  • With our active English Language and Linguistics student community, you’ll enjoy a range of social activities from quizzes to sports matches to a yearly summer ball.

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

BA

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Discover how societies communicate and how language shapes our experience of the world around us.


Develop your technical knowledge of language, how it works, and how it is analysed and classified, then use this to understand how language is used in the world around us.


Course highlights


Choose from topics like the use of language in social media or business, how and why language varies in different contexts, and specialist areas such as authorship analysis, language and AI, psycholinguistics, and teaching English as a Foreign Language.


  • Develop your communication skills – understand how language shapes human behaviour, relationships and worldviews.
  • Explore a broad range of specialisms – choose from areas like historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, or language and media.
  • There’s plenty of opportunities for team work, group study and socialising with your ELAL coursemates. From developing a linguistics research project together to working with databases of language, you’ll really get a practical feel for the impact of linguistics.
  • Access excellent resources including our Linguistics Research Laboratory and online language databases (corpora).
  • With our active English Language and Linguistics student community, you’ll enjoy a range of social activities from quizzes to sports matches to a yearly summer ball.

Admission Requirements

32+
1350+
67+
6.5+
176+
88+
A levels
  • ABB offer - With at least one A level in English Language, English Literature, English Language and Literature or a Modern Foreign Language.
  • AAB offer - With A levels in Psychology, Sociology, History, Geography, Philosophy or Law.
  • General Studies: Not accepted

IB Diploma
  • 6,5,5 in Higher level subjects plus 32 points overall, if studying higher level English Language, English Literature, English Language and Literature or a Modern Foreign Language.
  • 6,6,5 if studying higher level Psychology, Sociology, History, Geography, Philosophy or Law.  

BTEC qualifications
  • BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM, plus a B at A level.
  • BTEC Diploma: DD, plus a B at A level.
  • BTEC Subsidiary Diploma: D, plus a AB.
If studying English Language, English Literature, English Language and Literature or a Modern Foreign Language.
  • BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM, plus an A at A level.
  • BTEC Diploma: DD, plus an A at A level.
  • BTEC Subsidiary Diploma: D, plus a AB.
If studying Psychology, Sociology, History, Geography, Philosophy, Law, Maths.

3 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
9,790 GBP
International
26,400 GBP

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