History and English Language BA(Hons)
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For the History side of the course, you’ll have the opportunity to shape your studies to your interests. Our modules are historically and geographically diverse, so you can pick the periods and places that fascinate you the most. You’ll be able to engage with a range of approaches to history, and work with primary source materials too.
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr
In your English Language studies, you’ll be introduced to the basic concepts and theory of different branches of linguistics, like phonetics and morphology. We’ll also encourage you to study the role of language in society and how it helps humans understand things: how we acquire it, the way it changes, and the way it forms an array of ways to communicate.
Entry requirements: BBB inc. B in History or English Language/DDM/120 inc. B at A Level in History or English Language
We also offer innovative assessments for both subjects in your course, so you could find yourself analysing children’s speech development, pitching an idea for a historical video game or creating a visitor trail for a national museum.
Example modules • History of English • Hands on History: Voice Film and Material Culture
• Language and Power • Henry’s Empire
Your future As an History and English Language graduate, you are valued for the advanced skills you have developed in analysis and communication, self-motivation, teamwork, creative problem solving and persuasiveness. Our graduates have gone on to a variety of careers within teaching, writing, local government, archives, the media, PR, law, politics and accountancy. Others have opted for PGCE study and have become teachers, or continued their studies at Master’s level.* *LinkedIn
“Language is central to history: sources are made up of words, but the meanings of those words change over time. But language also has a history, which reflects relations of power between different people, different countries, at different moments. How did English emerge as a global language? Is it about empire? Or is there something about the language itself which has made it so adaptable?” Dr Lindsey Dodd, Admissions Tutor (History Pathways). For more detailed course information visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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