BA English Language and Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Linguistics and English Language and Literature, a joint honours programme combining the study of language structure with literary analysis across periods and genres. Core topics include research methods. The curriculum spans from medieval literature to contemporary culture, and includes work with specialised software for text analysis.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
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What students say
Based on about 123 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 93%
- Learning opportunities: 81%
- Assessment and feedback: 81%
- Academic support: 91%
- Organisation and management: 87%
- Learning resources: 91%
- Student voice: 81%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 195 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 3%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 2%
What graduates do next
Based on about 91 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 62%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 12%
- Unemployed: 8%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 17%
- Teaching Professionals: 14%
- Administrative occupations: 13%
- Media Professionals: 9%
- Elementary occupations: 8%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 59%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 53%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 275 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 2%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 3%
- London: 17%
- South East: 14%
- South West: 20%
- Wales: 36%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 180 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 98%
- Access course: 1%
- Other qualifications: 1%
Modules
- How Language Works 1
- How Language Works 2
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Developing English: History and Society
- Transforming Visions: Text and Image
- Discourse
- Structure, Meaning and Function
- Sounds of Speech
- Style and Genre
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and Gender
- History of English
- First and Second Language Acquisition
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Working with Linguistic Data
- Literature for All
- Forensic Linguistics
- Communicating in Relationships
- Communication Disorders
- Dialect in Literature and Film
- Professional and Intercultural Communication
- Experimental Approaches to Psycholinguistics
- Language and Popular Culture
- Phraseology in Theory and Application
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics 1
- Dissertation in Language and Linguistics 2
- Literature and Science
- Dissertation
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
- Postcolonial Theory
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- American Poetry after Modernism
- John Milton
- Apocalypse Then and Now
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
- 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
- Cinema Across Asia
- Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
- Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Language and Literature at Cardiff University earn?
The median salary is £25,500 after 15 months, £23,000 after 3 years, £28,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £34,000. The £28,500 median after five years is £500 more than the UK median for English language.
What do graduates of BA English Language and Literature at Cardiff University do next?
84% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Language and Literature at Cardiff University?
93% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Language and Literature at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 141 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Language and Literature at Cardiff University?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 3% left higher education.