BA English Language and Literature
About this course
BA Honours in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. The degree combines linguistic and literary study across creative writing workshops and linguistic theory modules. The course concludes with an independent research project on a chosen topic.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points
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Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 95%: 54 offers from 57 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 11 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 83%
- Assessment and feedback: 73%
- Academic support: 91%
- Organisation and management: 78%
- Learning resources: 94%
- Student voice: 77%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 25 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 10%
What graduates do next
Based on about 89 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 61%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Further study: 13%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 26%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Media Professionals: 9%
- Sales occupations: 8%
- Administrative occupations: 6%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 72%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 52%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 290 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 33%
- North West: 12%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 13%
- East Midlands: 6%
- West Midlands: 2%
- East of England: 6%
- London: 19%
- South East: 5%
- South West: 3%
- Wales: 1%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Bronze for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Introduction to the Structure of Language 1: Phonetics, Phonology & Morphology
- Introduction to Language Structure 2: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- Dealing with Data
- Doing Criticism
- Beginnings
- Revolutions
- Phonetics and Phonological Theory
- Syntactic Theory
- Sociolinguistics
- Renaissance Bodies
- Writing New Worlds, 1688-1789
- Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
- Victorian Passions: Victorian Values
- Contemporary Cultures
- Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
- Creative Practice
- Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
- Poetry Workshop
- Theatre Script Workshop
- Prose Workshop
- Screenwriting Workshop
- Experimental Methods in Linguistics
- Literatures of Decolonisation
- Pragmatic Theory
- CHiLD: Current Hypotheses in Language Development
- It's not what you say, it's how you say it: Prosody and intonation
- Experimental Practicum
- Early 20th Century American Literature
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- Medieval Worlds, 1100-1500
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 1)
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 2)
- Career Development for final year students
- Phonetics and Phonological Theory
- Syntactic Theory
- Sociolinguistics
- Early English: Texts, Patterns and Varieties
- Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
- Experimental Methods in Linguistics
- Pragmatic Theory
- CHiLD: Current Hypotheses in Language Development
- It's not what you say, it's how you say it: Prosody and intonation
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- Language in the City
- Sex and Money: Economies of the Victorian Novel
- Short-form Dissertation 1: English Language and Linguistics
- Short-form Dissertation 2: English Language and Linguistics
- Long-form Dissertation: English Language and Linguistics
- Documentary Storytelling: Theory and Practice
- Dissertation: Long-Form Essay
- Independent Essay I (English Literature)
- Independent Essay II (English Literature)
- Landscapes of American Modernism
- Enlightened Romantics: A Revolution in Feeling
- Women on Trial: Gender, Power, and Performance in Shakespeare's England
- Time, Change, and the Life Course in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- American Poetry Now
- Prose Portfolio
- Theatre Script Portfolio
- Poetry Portfolio
- Screenwriting Portfolio
- Dissertation: Digital Exhibition
- Writing Liberty in the Romantic Era
- Language and Ageing
- Literature and Human Rights
- Dissertation: Editing Project
- Fiction and the Philosophy of Terror: From the Supernatural to the Sublime
- Reading Freud: An Introduction to the Principles of Psychoanalytic Theory
- Freedom and Imagination: US Literature 1850-1900
- Advanced Second Language Acquisition
- From Input to Output: The Blackbox of Child Language Acquisition
- Medieval and Early Modern Meaning: English Historical Semantics
- Envious Show: Wealth, Power and Ambition in Narratives of the Country House, 1550-2000
- Unsex'd Females: Feminism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction
- Current Issues in Linguistics
- Keats and Romantic Epic
- New Words in English
- Queer/Trans/Early Modern
- Growing Up Global: Children's Literature and the Child
- Shakespeare's Show Business
- Multilingualism
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Language and Literature at Newcastle University earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £23,500 after 3 years, £30,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,500 and £36,000. The £30,000 median after five years is £1,000 more than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English Language and Literature at Newcastle University do next?
89% 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 Newcastle University?
94% 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 Newcastle University?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 133 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA English Language and Literature at Newcastle University?
95% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 54 offers from 57 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
Does BA English Language and Literature at Newcastle University include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA English Language and Literature at Newcastle University?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.