UCAS Code: Q320

Duration: 3 years

Intl Fee: £9,500

The BA (Hons) English Language and Literature has an excellent record of student satisfaction. 95% of our English students are satisfied with their course, according to The Guardian University Guide 2012.

With its focus on both language and literature, students on this degree enjoy modules such as ‘Language and Culture’, ‘The Language of Fiction’, ‘World Englishes in Fiction’ and ‘Talking Pages: Drama Dialogue and Conversation’. ‘Language and Culture’, ‘The Language of Fiction’, ‘World Englishes in Fiction’ and ‘Talking Pages: Drama Dialogue and Conversation’.

Optional modules allow you to enrich your study of English language and literature alongside like-minded students and within a creative and supportive environment. Options include ‘Introduction to Media Language’, ‘Language and Power’ and ‘Style in Science Fiction and Fantasy’.

Teaching at Sunderland is enhanced by staff research, some of which has been classed as ‘world-leading’ by the latest Research Assessment Exercise, and the English team is recognised as one of the top research teams in the University.

Throughout the course we encourage you to become culturally empowered and highly articulate. In the final year you will enhance transferable skills in research through writing a 6,000 word dissertation on a topic of your choice.

English is taught within our Faculty of Education and Society and, according to the Student Experience Survey of 2010, 91% of the Faculty’s students would recommend the University to others.