English Literature and English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons)

at University of Kent

Program structure

Stage 1

Compulsory modules currently include

• ENGL3360 - Changing Literatures: From Chaucer to the Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL3370 - Thinking Through Theory (30 credits)

• LING3020 - The Structure of Language (15 credits)

• LING3030 - Sounds of English (15 credits)

• LING3130 - Foundations of Linguistics (15 credits)

Optional modules may include

• LING3040 - Language, Self and Society (15 credits)

• LING3050 - Meaning and Discourse (15 credits)

• LING3070 - Tackling Text: Explaining Style (15 credits)

• LING3090 - Global Englishes (15 credits)

• LING3120 - Grammar for Everyone (15 credits)

Stage 2

Optional modules may include

• ENGL6720 - Reading Victorian Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6770 - The Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL6810 - Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6890 - Modernism (30 credits)

• ENGL6940 - Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (30 credits)

• ENGL6950 - Empire, New Nations and Migration (30 credits)

• ENGL6970 - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL7210 - American Modernities: US Literature in the 20th Century (30 credits)

• ENGL7310 - Interactive and Immersive Fictions (30 credits)

• ENGL7320 - Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health (30 credits)

• LING5001 - Language and the Law: An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (15 credits)

• LING5002 - Language of Gaming (15 credits)

• LING5190 - Syntax 1 (15 credits)

• LING5220 - Morphology (15 credits)

• LING5360 - English Language in the Media (15 credits)

• LING5370 - English Language in the Media 2 (15 credits)

• LING5420 - Guided Research in Linguistics (15 credits)

• LING5450 - Phonetics (15 credits)

• LING5500 - Stylistics: Language in Literature (15 credits)

• LING5520 - Language Variation and Change (15 credits)

• LING5530 - Phonology (15 credits)

• LING5540 - First Language Acquisition (15 credits)

• LING5560 - Semantics and Pragmatics (15 credits)

• PHIL6020 - Philosophy of Language (30 credits)

Stage 3

Optional modules may include

• ENGL5800 - Charles Dickens and Victorian England (30 credits)

• ENGL5830 - Postcolonial Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL6001 - The Project (English) (30 credits)

• ENGL6002 - LGBTQ Narratives: Queer Writing from Britain and Ireland (30 credits)

• ENGL6003 - #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics (30 credits)

• ENGL6040 - The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6330 - Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6550 - Places, Journeys, Borders (30 credits)

• ENGL6580 - American Crime Fiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6760 - Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives (30 credits)

• ENGL7080 - Virginia Woolf (30 credits)

• ENGL7090 - Animals, Humans, Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL7130 - The New Woman: 1880-1920 (30 credits)

• ENGL7250 - A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe (30 credits)

• ENGL7290 - Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance (30 credits)

• LING5100 - Stylistics and Creative Writing (15 credits)

• LING5260 - Syntax II (15 credits)

• LING5300 - Writing In The Media: A Practical Approach (15 credits)

• LING5310 - Language in Atypical Circumstances (15 credits)

• LING5350 - Topics in Semantics (15 credits)

• LING5390 - English Language Teaching 1 (15 credits)

• LING5400 - English Language Teaching 2 (15 credits)

• LING5510 - History of British English (15 credits)

• LING5550 - Language Processing (15 credits)

• LING5990 - Dissertation (30 credits)

 Access to HE Diploma

The University welcomes applications from Access to Higher Education Diploma candidates for consideration. A typical offer may require you to obtain a proportion of Level 3 credits in relevant subjects at merit grade or above.

 BTEC Nationals

The University will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF; OCR) on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us for further advice on your individual circumstances. A typical offer would be to achieve DMM including a humanities based essay writing subject such as History, English, Philosophy, Religious Studies or Classical Civilisation at B.

 International Baccalaureate

30 points overall or 15 points at HL, including HL English A1/A2/B at 5/6/6 OR English Literature A/English Language and Literature A (or Literature A/Language and Literature A of another country) 5 at HL or 6 at SL

 International Foundation Programme

Pass all components of the University of Kent International Foundation Programme with a 60% overall average including 60% in Academic Skills Development and 60% in the Literature module.

 T level

The University will consider applicants holding T level qualifications in subjects closely aligned to the course.

• Home full-time£9250

• EU full-time£13000

• International full-time£17400

Graduate destinations

The programme prepares you for a wide range of careers in areas including:

• advertising

• journalism and professional writing

•  media

•  the law

•  public relations

•  marketing and sales

•  publishing 

• teaching at all levels 

• banking 

• marketing analysis

•  project management

•  company training

•  broadcasting

• the civil or diplomatic services.