Program Description

This degree will interest students who are fascinated by English, from discovering key linguistic frameworks to exploring exciting forms of literature and experimenting with creative writing. It is also flexible, allowing you to design a course that best fits your strengths, learning style and particular area of interest, choosing from a wide range of units and four specific pathways: TESOL; teacher training; legal (incorporating forensic linguistics) and clinical (such as speech and language therapy).In your first year, you are introduced to the core skills you need for the degree: an introduction to ways of reading prose, poetry and drama as well as key concepts in linguistics and phonetics. In your second and third years, you build on these core skills while also choosing from a range of optional units that will really capture your imagination.

• Develop your subject knowledge as well as your skills in analysis, critical thinking and communication, creating a portfolio of work and a skill set that will help you begin your graduate career
• Learn research methods in your second year which will prepare you for your dissertation in the third year
• Benefit from being taught by enthusiastic, highly experienced subject specialists who are nationally recognised for their research, at a University with roots in teacher training going back to 1882
• Employability skills are embedded throughout the course and, in your third year, you take a work experience unit which allows you to develop as a professional in your preferred field
• You have the option to study for the TEFLi, an important qualification should you wish to teach English in language schools across the UK and worldwide
• Possible career pathways include: teaching English as a second language; teaching in a primary or secondary school setting; speech and language therapy; forensic linguistics; research; public relations; librarianship; arts administration; journalism; publishing.

Admission Requirements

• Indian Students:-Year 12 with 55% overall.
• Arab Students:- Any of the following:-
  • 2 A level passes (minimum C and D)
  • International Baccalaureate (24 points)
  • A recognised Foundation degree

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	6

Remarks:

Indian Students IELTS Waiver: - 

• At least 70% marks in English language course in Higher Secondary School.
• Punjab and Haryana Boards will not get IELTS waive off.