EnglishLanguage andLiteratureBA Honours

UCAS code Q3003 Years

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English Languageand LiteratureBA HonoursUCAS code Q3003 Years

This degree combines elements from ourEnglish Language and English Literaturedegrees in roughly equal proportions, allowingyou to immerse yourself in both subjects.

You will enjoy wide-ranging literature options includingpre-twentieth-century literature up to the present day. Forexample, Renaissance literature, the Romantics, Americanmodernism, and postwar culture.

In linguistics you learn about the history of English and thesocial contexts in which it is used, as well as scientificmethodologies for studying it.

You study at least one third of your topics in each disciplineat each Stage. This gives you the freedom to choose theremaining third from a wide selection of language orliterature modules, or topics outside the School.

Highlights of this degreeQuality and ranking• 7th in the UK – The Times/Sunday Times Good

University Guide 2020 (Linguistics category)• 10th in the UK – The Times/Sunday Times Good

University Guide 2020 (English Studies category)• Top 20 in the UK – The Complete University Guide

2020 (English category)• Ranked 5th in the UK with a 94% overall student

satisfaction score – National Student Survey 2019(Linguistics category)

• 92% overall student satisfaction score – NationalStudent Survey 2019 (English Studies category)

• top 150 – English Language & Literature category – QSWorld University Rankings by Subject 2019

• 3rd in the UK for research – Research ExcellenceFramework 2014 (English Language and Literaturecategory)

• top 200 – Arts and Humanities category – Times HigherEducation World University Rankings by Subject 2018

Cultural industries placementIn Stage 3, you have the chance to gain valuablework-related experience by undertaking a work placement inone of the cultural industries. This is an exciting opportunityto relate the knowledge and skills you have acquired to thework environment, as well as enhancing your CV.

Your placement will be an integrated part of your degreewhich will last for one day per week for about 10 weeks (60hours). It will be assessed through the submission of a

Project Work Diary and a Final Report which together formthe Placement Portfolio.

Places are limited and entry to the module may be on acompetitive basis.

Field trips and eventsStudying at Newcastle means much more than your timespent in the classroom or the library. The School organisesregular field trips to cultural venues in the region such as:

• theatres• The Wordsworth Trust (Dove Cottage)• Lindisfarne• Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books• local museums including Beamish and the Great North

Museum

We are home to the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts(NCLA). This brings internationally renowned writers toNewcastle, through a year-long festival of readings,discussion and debate.

Boost your employability with a work placementApply to spend 9 to 12 months on an optional workplacement between Stages 2 and 3. You can apply tospend your placement year with any organisation and willreceive University support to do so.

You’ll gain first-hand experience of working in the sector,putting your learning into practice and developing yourprofessional expertise.

It will extend your degree by a year and is subject toavailability.

Find out more about Work Placements.

Study abroadYou have the opportunity to study abroad for one semesterin your second year, through the Erasmus programme. Thework that you do and the grades you achieve are countedtowards your final degree.

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguisticshas Erasmus links with the following universities:

• Leiden in the Netherlands• Peter Pazmany in Hungary• Gdansk in Poland• Ghent in Belgium

We also have study abroad links with two universities inCanada – Dalhousie and New Brunswick - available throughour Non-EU Study Abroad exchange programme.

Facilities and supportAs a student at Newcastle, you will be part of our School ofEnglish Literature, Language and Linguistics, which has along and prestigious history.

FacilitiesThe School occupies its own building, the Percy Building, inthe heart of campus where you will join a lively community ofstudents, academics, authors and professionals.

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All of our students enjoy exceptional library provision fromour award-winning Library Service, which houses over onemillion books and a huge range of electronic resources.

Writing opportunitiesNewcastle University Students' Union is home to one of thebest student newspapers in the country, The Courier. Youalso have the opportunity to submit poetry and short prosefor the School's magazine, Alliterati.

SupportYou'll have a personal tutor throughout your degree – anacademic member of staff who can help with academic andpersonal issues. You'll also have access to a peer mentor inyour first year – a fellow student who can help you settle inand answer any questions you have.

Social activitiesThere's a lively literary society, EngSoc, which organisessocial and academic events around a literary theme, as wellas a Linguistics Society. There's an active student dramascene on campus, with two student drama societies open toall. You have opportunities throughout the year to getsubsidised tickets for theatre productions in Newcastle.

Find out moreVisit the School of English Literature, Language andLinguistics' website, where you can watch:

• video interviews of our current students• video interviews of our graduates and find out what

they're doing now

Graduates meeting the Vice-Chancellor.

Course Details

Modules for 2019 entry

Please noteThe module and/or programme information below isfor 2019 entry. Our teaching is informed by research andmodules change periodically to reflect developments inthe discipline, the requirements of external bodies andpartners, student feedback, or insufficient numbers ofstudents interested (in an optional module). To find outmore read our terms and conditions.Module/programme information for 2020 entry will bepublished here as soon as it is available (end of May2020).Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts foran academic year and you need to complete modulestotalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage. Furtherinformation, including the credit value of the module, isavailable in each of the module descriptions below.

Stage 1

Compulsory modulesSEL1003  Introduction to Literary Studies ISEL1004  Introduction to Literary Studies IISEL1008  The Nature of LanguageSEL1023  TransformationsSEL1027  Introduction to the Structure of Language 1:Syntax and PhonologySEL1032  Language Variation and Change: Dealing withData

Stage 2

Optional modulesYou will choose six modules from the following lists. Youmust select one or two modules from Group A and GroupB. You must select two modules, and may take up tofour, from Group C (subject to prerequisites):Group ASEL2201  Renaissance BodiesSEL2202  Writing New Worlds, 1660-1800SEL2203  Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832SEL2219  Monsters, Misery and Miracles: Heroic Life inOld English PoetryGroup BSEL2204  Victorian Passions: Victorian ValuesSEL2205  Fictions of MigrationSEL2206  Contemporary Cultures

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Stage 2

SEL2207  ModernismsSEL2217  Popular Performance Here and NowGroup CSEL2000  Phonological TheorySEL2086  Introduction to Child and Adult LanguageAcquisitionSEL2089  Syntactic TheorySEL2091  Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of LanguageSEL2212  Early English: Texts, Patterns and VarietiesSEL2223  Speakers as Wordsmiths: the Creation of NewWords in Present-Day EnglishSEL2229  Conceptual and Empirical Issues in LinguisticResearchSEL2230  MultilingualismIf you wish to complete the Dissertation in EnglishLiterature in Stage 3 you must select three modules fromGroup A and Group B above, as well as the followingmodule:SEL2210  Independent Research ProjectIf you do not wish to complete the Dissertation in EnglishLiterature in Stage 3 you may choose to replace a modulefrom the lists above to a module from below:SEL2224 Poetry WorkshopSEL2227 Prose WorkshopSEL2228 Screenwriting WorkshopNCL2007 Career Development for Second Year StudentsNCL2100  Developing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship andEmployabilityWork Placement (optional)You can apply to spend 9 to 12 months on an optionalwork placement between Stages 2 and 3. You can applyto spend your placement year with any organisation andwill receive University support to do so. It will extend yourdegree by a year and is subject to availability. It isn'tavailable if you're spending a year studying abroad. Findout more about Work Placements.Year 3 (Placement Year)On completion of Stage 2 and before entering Stage 3,you may as part of your studies for the degree spend ayear in a placement with an approved organisation. If youare required to re-sit your Stage 2 assessment, you mustdelay the start of your placement until you have done so.If you fail Stage 2, you may not complete a placementyear.NCL3000 Careers Service Placement Year ModuleStudents who fail the module will be required to transferto Stage 3 of Q300.

Stage 3

Optional modulesYou will select one of the following modules:SEL3326  Extended Study 1: Linguistics and EnglishLanguageSEL3327  Extended Study 2: Linguistics and EnglishLanguageSEL3329  Dissertation: Linguistics and English Language

Stage 3

SEL3362  Dissertation in English LiteratureSEL3364  Independent Essay I (English Literature)SEL3365  Independent Essay II (English Literature)SEL3401  Theatre Script Portfolio*SEL3400  Prose Portfolio*SEL3402  Poetry Portfolio*SEL3403  Screenwriting Portfolio*SEL3405  Exhibiting TextsSEL3407  Dissertation by Presentation*You should see the Module Leader at the end of thesemester preceding that in which you propose to studythis module. You must select one module from Group D, one modulefrom Group E and two modules from Group F.  Anyremaining credits can be chosen from any of the groups.Group DSEL3090  Chaucer, Chivalry and Heresy in the MiddleAgesSEL3055  Chaucer, Shakespeare and the Book of theFutureSEL3373  Women of Virtue and Women of Pleasure:Sensibility in the Age of ReasonSEL3391  Women on Trial: Gender, Power andPerformance in Shakespeare's EnglandSEL3392  Between the Acts: English Theatre, 1660-1737SEL3393  Shakespeare's Show BusinessSEL3406  Making Ireland: Kingdom, Colony and Nation inText and PerformanceGroup ESEL3016  Orgasms, Onanism, Odalisques: Desire andthe Body at the fin-de-siecleSEL3091  Sex and Money: Economies of the VictorianNovelSEL3338  Home, Heritage, History: 20th CenturyChildren's LiteratureSEL3340  Romantic Poetry: Journeys of the ImaginationSEL3346  Contemporary Documentary 1: Theory andPracticeSEL3347  Contemporary Documentary 2: Theory andPracticeSEL3378  Landscapes of American ModernismSEL3386  Modernist Poetry: Pound to the BeatsSEL3390  The Literature of CapitalismSEL3395  The Victorian Novel: Time, Change and the LifeCourseSEL3397  American Poetry NowSEL3011  Growing up Global: Childhood and NationalIdentity from Postwar to PresentSEL3404  High-toned, Middlebrow and Lowdown:Jazz-Age Literature in the MagazinesSEL3409  Planetary Imagination: Literature, theEnvironment and the AnthropoceneGroup FSEL3012  Immigrant Second Language and LiteracyAcquisitionSEL3026  Structure of LanguageSEL3046  English Grammar Through Time

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Stage 3

SEL3056  Advanced SociolinguisticsSEL3094  Accents of EnglishSEL3341  Old English: Texts and TranslationsSEL3349  History of Linguistic IdeasSEL3352  Language Development: Cross-DisciplinaryApproachesSEL3372  Language and Ethnicity in 21st Century BritainSEL3410  Special Topic in Linguistic TheoryYou may replace one module from Group F for one of thefollowing modules:SEL2000  Phonological TheorySEL2086  Introduction to Child and Adult LanguageAcquisitionSEL2089  Syntactic TheorySEL2091  Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of LanguageSEL2212  Early English: Texts, Patterns and VarietiesSEL2219  Monsters, Misery, Madness: Heroic Life in OldEnglish PoetrySEL2223  Speakers as Wordsmiths: the Creation of NewWords in Present-Day EnglishSEL2230  MultilingualismWith approval, if you have not replaced a module with onefrom above, you may choose to replace a module withone of the following or from outside the School of EnglishLiterature, Language and Linguistics.  You must have atleast one module from Groups D and E.NCL3007  Career Development for Final Year StudentsNCL3008  Advanced Career Development*SEL3324  Cultural Industries Placement Module(Semester 1)SEL3325  Cultural Industries Placement Module(Semester 2)*Only available if you have taken a Career Developmentmodule at Stage 2.

Teaching and assessment

Study at the cutting edgeThe content of all of our degrees is shaped by the researchspecialisms of our staff, many of whom are internationalleaders in their field. This means you have access to the verylatest ideas and discoveries in your subject.

We focus our research in five key areas:

• Literature• English Language and Linguistics• Creative Writing• Children's Literature• Film

Teaching methodsYou can normally expect to spend around 10 hours perweek attending lectures, seminars, workshops and filmscreenings. You also spend around 25 hours per week onclass preparation, reading, writing, and other kinds ofindependent research recommended by your tutor. 

Assessment methodsAssessment includes:

• written course work• group presentations• discussion-board postings• end-of-semester examinations

Find out moreVisit our Teaching & Learning pages to read about theoutstanding learning experience available to all students atNewcastle University.

Careers

English Language and LiteraturecareersEnglish students acquire a range of valuable skills, whichthey can transfer to many different employment situations.Your literary and linguistic training can be used in journalism,librarianship, teaching and the highly competitive fields ofwriting, acting and directing.

You will also gain other skills such as the capacity to analyseand summarise material, to communicate, to work to adeadline, to argue a case, to work independently as well ascollaboratively, to think logically and to be able to usecomputers.

This is excellent preparation for a wide number ofprofessions and as such, our graduates have gone on to avariety of career areas including editorial, marketing, PR andother forms of media. Others have gone to work in law,politics, HR, teaching and supporting specialist learning.

Visit the School of English Literature, Language andLinguistics website to watch video interviews with formerstudents talking about their experiences at Newcastle andtheir careers since graduating.

Find out more about the career options for EnglishLiterature, Language and Linguistics from Prospects: TheUK's Official Careers Website..

What our graduates go on to do:employment and further studychoicesSee what our recent graduates went on to do and viewgraduate destinations statistics. These statistics are basedon what graduates were doing on a specific date,approximately six months after graduation. Take a look atthe most recent data available for our graduates.

The destination data is available in varying levels, beginningwith the University and moving through Faculty and Schooldown to individual course reports. This final level may give

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you some useful ideas about possible options after yourcourse or a course you are considering.

Careers and employability atNewcastleNewcastle University consistently has one of the bestrecords for graduate employment in the UK.

96% of our 2017 UK-domiciled UG/PG graduatesprogressed to employment or further study within sixmonths of graduating.

85.5% of our graduates are in graduate level employment orfurther study within six months of graduating.

We provide an extensive range of opportunities to allstudents through an initiative called ncl+. This enables youto develop personal, employability and enterprise skills andto give you the edge in the employment market after yougraduate.

Our award-winning Careers Service is one of the largest andbest in the country, and we have strong links withemployers.

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees (UK students)

2020 entry:£9,250For programmes where you can spend a year on a workplacement or studying abroad, you will receive asignificant fee reduction for that year.Some of our degrees involve additional costs which arenot covered by your tuition fees.Please note:The maximum fee that we are permitted to charge for UKstudents is set by the UK government.As a general principle, you should expect the tuition fee toincrease in each subsequent academic year of yourcourse, subject to government regulations on feeincreases and in line with inflation.See more information on all aspects of studentfinance relating to Newcastle University.

Tuition Fees (EU students)

2020 entry:£9,250 You will pay the same tuition fees as UK studentsfor the duration of your course.For programmes where you can spend a year on a workplacement or studying abroad, you will receive asignificant fee reduction for that year.Some of our degrees involve additional costs which arenot covered by your tuition fees.

Tuition Fees (EU students)

Please note:As a general principle, you should expect the tuition fee toincrease in each subsequent academic year of yourcourse, subject to government regulations on feeincreases and in line with inflation.See more information on all aspects of studentfinance relating to Newcastle University.

Tuition Fees (International students)

2020 entry*:£18,000*Please note:You will be charged tuition fees for each year of yourdegree programme (unless you are on a shorter exchangeprogramme).The tuition fee amount you will pay may increaseslightly year on year as a result of inflation.If you spend a year on placement or studying abroad aspart of your degree you may pay a reduced fee for thatyear.See more information on all aspects of studentfinance relating to Newcastle University.

Scholarships and Financial Support (UKstudents)

You may be eligible for one of a range of NewcastleUniversity Scholarships in addition to government financialsupport.Newcastle University ScholarshipsGovernment financial support

Scholarships and Financial Support (EUstudents)

You may be eligible for one of a range of NewcastleUniversity Scholarships in addition to government financialsupport.Newcastle University ScholarshipsGovernment financial support

Scholarships and Financial Support(International students)

We offer a range of scholarships to eligible internationalstudents:Vice-Chancellor's International ScholarshipsVice-Chancellor’s Excellence ScholarshipsVice-Chancellor’s Global Scholarships

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Scholarships and Financial Support(International students)

We also offer International Family Discounts which areavailable for all international students with a close familymember who has graduated from or is now studying atNewcastle University.Newcastle University offers Sanctuary Scholarships foreligible undergraduate students (excludes MBBS andBDS students) from asylum-seeker and refugeebackgrounds. Some of our subject scholarships and sportsscholarships are also available for international students.

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Applying to Newcastle Universitythrough UCASTo apply for undergraduate study at Newcastle you mustuse the online application system managed by theUniversities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

UCAS codes for Newcastle University

• institution name - NEWC• institution code - N21

UCAS buzzwordAsk your teacher or adviser from your school or college forthe UCAS buzzword. You need the buzzword when youregister on the Apply system. This makes it clear whichschool or college you are applying from.

All UK schools and colleges and a small number of EU andinternational establishments are registered with UCAS.

If you are applying independently, or are applying from aschool or college which is not registered to manageapplications, you will still use the Apply system. You will notneed a buzzword.

Making your applicationOn the UCAS website you can also find out more about:

• application deadlines and other important dates• offers and tracking your application

Application decisions and enquiriesFind out more about our admissions process and who tocontact if you need help with your application.