BA English
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The course offers an optional industry placement year of at least 39 weeks between Level 2 and Level 3, and a semester abroad at a partner institution.
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Entry requirements
A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.
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What students say
Based on about 22 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 98%
- Learning opportunities: 93%
- Assessment and feedback: 93%
- Academic support: 100%
- Organisation and management: 98%
- Learning resources: 95%
- Student voice: 96%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 35 students who started
- Continued on course: 85%
- Left higher education: 15%
What graduates do next
Based on about 12 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 50%
- Working and studying: 30%
- Further study: 10%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 35%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Secretarial and related occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 85%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 85%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 45%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 150 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 3%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 17%
- East Midlands: 42%
- West Midlands: 2%
- East of England: 22%
- London: 6%
- South East: 5%
- Wales: 1%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 40 students who started
- A levels: 85%
- Baccalaureate: 5%
- Access course: 5%
- Other HE qualification: 10%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Drama Theatre Performance
- Humanities in a Digital World
- Introduction to Poetry
- Texts in Time: Medieval to Romantic
- Texts in Time: Victorian to Contemporary
- Introduction to Narrative
- Introduction to Popular Culture
- Just Space: Building Equity and Inclusion
- Dis-Locations: the Literature of Late Capitalism
- Theory Wars
- American Literature I
- American Literature II
- Exploring the Digital Past: Introduction to Digital Humanities
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Industry Placement
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle
- Medieval Literature
- Reading the 'Global'
- Renaissance Literature
- Restoration Literature
- Romanticism: Literature 1780-1830
- Study Period Abroad - English
- The Arthurian Myth
- Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
- A Dream Deferred: Class in American Literature
- Contemporary American Fiction
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Global Literatures and Health
- Gothic in Literature and Film
- Growing Up and Growing Old: Youth and Age across the Nineteenth Century
- Independent Study: English
- Literature and the Visual, 1770–1900
- Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
- Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
- Shakespeare I
- Shakespeare II
- Single Author Study A
- Single Author Study B
- The Literature of Childhood
- Twenty-First Century British Fiction
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English at University of Lincoln earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £21,000 after 3 years, £26,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £21,000 and £32,000. The £26,500 median after five years is £1,500 less than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English at University of Lincoln do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English at University of Lincoln?
98% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BCC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 100 UCAS points.
Does BA English at University of Lincoln include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year.
How many students continue on BA English at University of Lincoln?
85% of students continued into their second year, and 15% left higher education.