IELTs 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in reading and writing, and 5.5 in speaking and listening
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
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.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
