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HomeStudy at YorkUndergraduateCourses 2027/28English Language and Literature (BA)

BA (Hons) English Language and Literature

Discover both the art and science of language.

Year of entry: 2027/28

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September 2027

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3 years full-time

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Department of English and Related Literature, Department of Language and Linguistic Science

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Why study English language and literature at York?

Explore an extensive range of modules across two departments. In English literature, you’ll choose options covering all periods of literature from ancient classics to the present day, and explore literature from around the globe. You can also choose from options in film and creative writing. In English language, you’ll engage with language on a conceptual level and analyse raw linguistic data in detail, exploring syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, and more. Across the two subjects, you’ll be able to tailor your degree to your own interests.

Flexibility to add a Placement Year or Year Abroad. You’d then graduate with a BA in English Language and Literature (with Placement Year) or BA in English Language an Literature (with Year Abroad). Whether you’re interested in gaining experience in a particular industry or looking to expand your horizons by studying in another country, we’ll support you in exploring the options available to you.

Explore specialist linguistics labs and facilities. Depending on the modules you choose, you’ll learn in dedicated spaces, including our e-lab.

Gain valuable skills that will set you up for a range of careers. You’ll develop your research skills and address different briefs, becoming a skilled analytical thinker and problem solver. Our Careers and Employability Coordinators will help you to think about these skills in relation to employability and to navigate the resources and opportunities available, including internships, a placement year, and more. We regularly advertise careers events by industry experts.

Lively intellectual culture

We partner with the York Festival of Ideas and the biennial York International Shakespeare Festival, and our hugely successful Writers at York series brings in a stellar cast of world-famous contemporary writers. Our Writer-in-Residence offers creative writing workshops and events throughout the year.

Choose elective modules across a wide range of languages

As part of your degree, you can choose to take a credit-bearing module in a variety of languages - from Medieval Latin to Japanese, to Arabic or Chinese.

I can wholeheartedly say that choosing to study English at York is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I absolutely love my course and truly believe that English is a really rewarding, versatile degree!

Rosie, BA English. Read Rosie's blog post.

You’ll cover a range of topics on English and foreign languages, linguistics, and literatures. Our innovative curriculum offers an international outlook that takes account of global contexts.

In the first year of your degree, we’ll introduce you to the undergraduate study of English and Linguistics. Our modules will give you the skills you need to start undertaking literary and linguistic research, and advice on how to combine the two disciplines.

English literature

Core modules

We’ll introduce you to an exciting range of texts and critical approaches in your first year to lay the foundation for your degree. You’ll develop your knowledge of literary history by studying works from the medieval, Renaissance, early modern, 18th century, Romantic, Victorian, and modern periods. Reading Now will introduce you to the necessary skills for the study of literature at university level.

Writing Modernity

Other Worlds

Reading Now

English language

You'll study one core module designed to give you a grounding in the basic vocabulary and concepts of linguistic theory, which will form the bedrock of your future study.

English Past and Present

Option modules

You'll also study two option modules:

Either Phonetics and Phonology or Syntactic Structures

Either Understanding Language in the Real World or Structure of English

Academic integrity module

In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.

This module covers some of the essential skills and knowledge which will help you to study independently and produce work of a high academic standard which is vital for success at York.

This module will:

define academic integrity and academic misconduct

provide interactive exercises to help you to assess whether you've understood the concepts

provide answers to FAQs and links to useful resources.

In your second year, you'll study six option modules. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

Intermediate Option Modules

Our Intermediate Option Modules allow you to deepen your understanding of the relationship between literary works and the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which they were produced.

The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature

The Renaissance

Inventing Britain, 1700-1830

Making the Modern: Global Literature in the Victorian Age

Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire

Creative Writing: Contemporary Practice

World Literature Modules

Our World Literature Modules invite you to engage with questions of language, translation, and cultural difference in ways that equip you with important skills in linguistic analysis and description. Recent offerings have included the following:

African Imaginations and Afrophone Literatures

European New Cinema

Eros: The Literature and Philosophy of Love

French Autofictions

Introduction to Greek and Roman Literature

Modern French and Francophone Literature

Modern Latin American Literature

Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature

The World of Beowulf

Old Norse Literature

Post-War Italian Cinema

Community Engaged Learning Module

You can also choose to take our Community Engaged Learning Module. You'll work on a team project with a local organisation, making direct use of your distinct disciplinary skills such as analysis, research, and communication.

Beyond the Book: Community Projects

In the second year, you'll apply your core linguistic knowledge to new types of linguistic data, such as child language or regional varieties of English. At the same time, you will gain deeper theoretical knowledge in the core areas that you choose to pursue. You'll choose one of:

Aspects of a Theory of Syntax

Acoustic Phonetics and Phonological Analysis

Sociolinguistics

You can then choose any of the following options:

Language Attitudes in Applied Contexts

Teaching English as a Foreign Language I

Teaching English as a Foreign Language II

The Language of Turn and Sequence

Middle English: Texts and Contexts

Elective modules

You may be able to replace one option module with an elective module, studying a complementary subject, a language or an interdisciplinary topic.

In the third year of the degree, you’ll choose from options in English literature and English language, including the English and Related Literature Dissertation and the Bridge Dissertation for English Language and Literature.

You will choose between four and six option modules in English literature and English language (depending on whether you choose to do a dissertation). Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

In English, you will choose from the department’s Advanced Option Modules. These reflect the wide-ranging and cutting-edge research expertise of the Department, and our options cover literature from the classical period to the twenty-first century, as well as film and creative writing. Students can typically choose from around 30 options. Recent offerings have included:

Black Writers of the Global Nineteenth Century

Borders Bodies Bridges: Migration and Racialisation in Modern Literature and Culture

Elemental: Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in English

From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages and Modern Literature, 1840-1940

Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity

Modernism's Queer Spaces

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Literature

Spices and Spies: Renaissance Global Travel

The Stuff of Poetry

The Villains of Romantic Gothic

The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop

In your final year, you can choose freely from a wide range of modules. You will have the opportunity to become proficient in all aspects of managing small-scale linguistic projects, from identifying the research questions, to communicating the findings. You can choose to specialise, follow your own interests and carry out original research. Options may include:

A Usage-based View of Language

Topics in Language Variation and Change

Topics in Phonetics and Phonology

Topics in Psycholinguistics: Language Processing

Topics in Syntax

Dialect Grammar of British English

English Corpus Linguistics

Forensic Linguistics

Forensic Phonetics

Multimodality: Language and the Body

Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain

Phonological Development

Psycholinguistics: Language Processing

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

Study abroad

There are opportunities for you to spend time abroad during your course:

Explore global opportunities

Real-world experiences

Find your edge by gaining practical experience that boosts your employability. Explore diverse opportunities to apply your knowledge and build vital professional skills, such as placements, internships and part-time jobs.

Learning outcomes

Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Learning outcomes for this course

Read diverse texts closely and critically, interpreting them with reference to the period and tradition in which they were produced, synthesizing information from secondary sources where appropriate.

Analyse the affective power of language and narrative, and their cultural and political impact, and use this awareness better to understand the world and influence others.

Select and deploy qualitative and quantitative research methods acquired through the study of the nature, use, and acquisition of language.

Propose creative and principled solutions to linguistic problems and contribute them effectively to interdisciplinary teams, forming a bridge between humanities and scientific disciplines.

Appreciate, engage with, and synthesize arguments from a variety of external standpoints, and interrogate their own assumptions, developing their critical practice in the light of self-reflection, peer review, and advice and feedback from others.

Identify and formulate novel questions which advance critical debate within a range of disciplines, and approach them both individually and in teams, using advanced written and oral skills.

Show sensitivity and perceptiveness concerning aspects of social, cultural, and political realities where language plays an important role and be able to highlight the relevance of literature- and linguistic-related issues in a globalized and interconnected world.

The fees and funding information here is for students starting in the 2027/28 academic year.

If you take a year abroad or year in industry you'll pay a reduced rate of fees for that year.

Annual tuition fees

UK (home)

International and EU

The UK government has announced its intention to increase tuition fees from £9,790 to £10,050 for the 2027/8 academic year. We expect this to apply to new UK (home) undergraduate students starting their studies in September 2027.

UK (home) or international fees?

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

UK (home) fees may increase within the government fee cap in subsequent academic years. We will notify you of any increase as soon as we can.

International fees are subject to increase in subsequent years in line with the prevailing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate (up to a maximum of 10%).

More information

For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.

Additional costs

You'll need copies of the texts set for each module. Where possible, the Department works to arrange digital copies via the University Library. Where this is not practical, you'll be instructed in advance of the start of each term about the texts and editions you'll need to purchase (whether new or second-hand).

We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2027/28 throughout the year.

UK government loans

UK scholarships and bursaries

International scholarships

Country-specific funding

US loans

Living costs

You can use our living costs guide to help plan your budget. It covers additional costs that are not included in your tuition fee such as expenses for accommodation and study materials.

Free online courses

Get a taste of university-level study on one of York's free short courses.

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* Awarded joint 10th in the Times Higher Education ranking of the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Teaching format

In English literature , you’ll learn through a programme of seminars, lectures, workshops and one-to-one consultations. We emphasize small-group teaching, which means you’ll mainly be taught in seminars.

In English language, you’ll learn through a mix of seminars, lectures, practicals and labs, as well as through independent study. Class sizes decrease as you advance through the degree. Lectures are accompanied by small-group teaching in seminars and practicals.

York’s English Language and Literature degree is renowned for its flexible and innovative approach.

Our dedicated research informs all our teaching activities.

Our friendly, approachable, and accessible staff are world-leading experts in their fields. They are each available to meet individually with you during weekly open office hours – two in English and at least one in Linguistics.

We organise many guest lectures and readings by well-known critics, linguists, and writers.

In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.

Facilities

Thin Ice Press is the Department of English and Related Literature’s in-house printing studio, whose iron presses chart the evolution of print from 1838-1926. They offer opportunities to experience the relationship between writing and printing practices through publication, practice-led research, teaching, and public workshops.

Teaching location

You will be based in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Department of Language and Linguistic Science on Campus West.

Your contact hours will be divided between various locations around Campus West, including Vanbrugh College, Derwent College and the Spring Lane Building.

About our campus

Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.

Assessment and feedback

The Department of English and Related Literature employs a variety of assessment methods, including group projects and open exams, but with a strong emphasis on essay writing. Your main mode of assessment will be essays, which will range from short exploratory exercises to more detailed discussions on a topic of your choice.

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science also uses varied assessment methods, including closed and open exams, coursework, extended essays, group oral presentations, lab reports and practicals.

Both departments offer high levels of feedback and ample opportunities for you to meet with staff to discuss your written work.

Careers and skills

Studying English Language and Literature at York will provide you with numerous career possibilities. You’ll learn presentation, language and critical thinking skills during your combined degree, and gain expertise in complex analysis and research. These skills suit a wide range of careers, from law and teaching to national and local government and the creative industries.

Our English and Related Literature alumni

Our Language and Linguistic Science alumni

Career opportunities

Advertising, marketing, and public relations

Arts administration

Civil and diplomatic services

Creative industries

Journalism and broadcasting

Librarianship

Publishing

Speech and language therapy

Teaching, including Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Translation services

Transferable skills

Ability to analyse and compare complex texts

Capacity to write clearly and fluently for a variety of audiences

Communication and teamwork skills

Critical and analytical thinking

Data interpretation

Experience of researching and debating challenging topics

Independent study skills

Logic and rhetoric

Proficiency in presenting findings cogently and persuasively using information technology

Turn ambition into achievement with our expert guidance and connections. From your first day here to life after graduation, we'll help you find your career advantage.

Qualification

A levels

AAB including an A in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable)

Access to Higher Education Diploma

36 credits at Distinction, including at least 9 credits in Literature-related units, and 9 credits at Merit or higher

BTEC National Extended Diploma

DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in English Literature at grade A

European Baccalaureate

80% overall, with 85% in English Literature.

International Baccalaureate

35 points including 6 in English Literature at Higher Level (Higher Level English Language and Literature is also acceptable)

T levels

We are currently not accepting T Levels for this course unless an additional A Level (or equivalent qualification) in English Literature has been taken.

Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers

Advanced Highers - B in English Literature

Scottish Highers - BBBB

We may also be able to consider three Advanced Highers or a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers, where an applicant does not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone. Please contact us to discuss your qualifications.

Other international qualifications

Equivalent qualifications from your country

Alternative offers

Meeting the following additional criteria may qualify you for an alternative offer.

Criteria

Adjustment

Widening participation

BBC including B in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable)

This is conditional upon successful completion of the WP programme including the YorJourney module (Black Access Programme, Next Step York) or successful completion of Realising Opportunities More about widening participation.

Contextual offer

ABC including an A in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable)

If you achieve A or higher in the EPQ, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.

If you successfully complete our online course Accents, attitudes and identity, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer. Details about how to evidence completion of the MOOC will be sent in your offer letter. Please note: you do not need to pay for the certificate. More about MOOCs.

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

Minimum requirement

IELTS (Academic)

6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component

Other English language qualifications

To see what other language tests we can accept and the scores required, visit our IELTS equivalences webpage and click on the IELTS requirement for your chosen course.

We also accept various school-leaving certificates to meet our English Language requirements. Please visit our country-specific information for further details.

For more information see our undergraduate English language requirements.

If you haven't met our English language requirements

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.

To apply to York, you'll need to complete an online application via UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

How to apply

We look for intellectual and literary curiosity, open-mindedness, and analytical ability.

We encourage mature students to email the Admissions Tutor for consultation and advice.

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