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BA (Hons) Communication & Society and English
BA (Hons) Communication & Society and English

BA (Hons) Communication & Society and English

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  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

English Requirement

IELTs  7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in reading and writing, and 5.5 in speaking and listening

Course Information

Develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of individual, group and organisational communication and share your passion for English with a degree designed to enhance, interrogate and challenge your understanding.

It enables you to shape your study according to your strengths, interests and career ambitions. Combining two subjects can give your degree an international or industry perspective that will make you stand out in the graduate employment market.

Our course combinations are designed so that what you learn in one subject will complement and enhance what you learn in the other. In your final year you can choose either to split your time evenly between your two subjects, or to specialise in one. Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for you too. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enables you to take part in optional work placements or go on an international exchange.

By choosing English and Communication & Society you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of optional modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. These two subjects have a natural synergy and will provide you with a unique perspective on culture, communication and society throughout the ages.

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Year One

Core modules

  • Literature: New Horizons

  • American Literature: Writing Self and Nation

  • Media Communications and Digital Cultures

  • Psychology of Communication

Year Two

Core modules

  • Culture and Anarchy

  • texts themselves.

  • Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Explorations of Identity and Selfhood

  • Humanities in the workplace

  • English optional modules

  • Renaissance Literature, 1485 – 1660: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

  • British Women Writers between the Wars (1918 – 1939)

  • Romantic Revolutions 1780 – 1851

  • Writing Works

  • Ethnicity in American Writing: Place, Identity and Form

  • Literature and Psychoanalysis

  • Voices and Visions

  • Black Writing in Britain

  • The Anthology

  • Communication & Society optional modules

  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 1: The New Creativity

  • Communications and Creativity Toolkit

  • Gender and Sexuality

  • Media, Communication and Culture in Asia

  • Digital Identities: The Politics of Communication in the Globalised World

Year Three

Core module

  • Dissertation

  • OR

  • The Creative Writing Dissertation

  • OR

  • English and Creative Industries Project

  • English optional modules

  • Early Modern Poetry and Prose

  • Reading Gender and Sexuality

  • Postcolonial Texts: Narratives of Liberation

  • Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts and Theory

  • Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries

  • Literature in Theory: Writing, Technology, and the World

  • Modernism and Modernity

  • Nuclear Literature: Culture in the Atomic Age

  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 2: Convergence and Creativity in the Digital Age

  • Self in Crisis: Power, Prejudice and Otherness

  • DJ Cultures: History, Theory and Technique

  • Alternative and Trans-National Media

  • Humanity in the Natural World

  • Political Communications and Society

  • What's New: the future of media communications

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Your career development

This is a major part of the curriculum. Key transferable skills are emphasised and there are opportunities to develop links with organisations and potential employers. Joint honours courses develop a wide range of skills. These include written and oral communication skills, critical analysis and a variety of IT skills. But you’ll also become more self-motivated, be able to work independently and in teams, and develop excellent time management skills.

Our recent English and Communication & Society Joint Honours graduates have gone onto careers in:

  • Local Government – teacher (Secondary English)

  • JRS – market researcher

  • Vision Twentyone – social research interviewer

  • Lightdragon Ltd / Food Network UK – content producer

  • jigsaw systems – product manager.

Other career areas could include: publishing, PR, marketing, advertising, journalism and recruitment.

Many graduates also choose to undertake further study on one of our Masters-level courses or MPhil and PhD research degrees.

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year

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