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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. English Language with Philosophy Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

The University’s Enhanced Curriculum Framework permits students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who complete less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree.

Students must take either:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Dissertation 09 26703 40 Full Term
LH Philosophical Project 08 27860 40 Full Term

Students choose 80 credits in Philosophy and/or in English Language. The lists below are indicative.

Students must choose a 40-credit Dissertation. Students choose 80-credits of optional modules. Students must take a minimum of 40-credits in Philosophy and a minimum of 40-credits in English Language. Students may take a Professional Skills Module in place of 20-credits of optional modules in semester 1. It is not permitted to only take a Dissertation in one subject. Students must take 40-credits of optional modules in each semester.

Students taking 80 credits in English Language and 40 credits in Philosophy.
English Language: 40 credit English Language Dissertation, one semester 1 option and one semester 2 option.
Philosophy: one semester 1 option and 1 semester 2 option.

Students taking 60 credits in English Language and 60 credits in Philosophy:
EITHER
English Language: 40 credit English Language Dissertation and one semester 1 option
Philosophy: one semester 1 option and two semester 2 options
OR
English Language: 40 credit English Language Dissertation and one semester 2 option
Philosophy: two semester 1 options and one semester 2 option
OR
English Language: two semester 1 options and one semester 2 option
Philosophy: 40 credit Philosophy dissertation and one semester 2 option
OR
English Language: one semester 1 option and two semester 2 options.
Philosophy: 40 credit Philosophy dissertation and one semester 1 option

Students taking 40 credits in English Language and 80 credits in Philosophy:
EITHER
English Language: one semester 1 option and one semester 2 option
Philosophy: 40 credit Philosophy dissertation, one semester 1 option and one semester 2 option

English Language optional modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH A Common Language? English in the U.K. and the U.S.A. (and beyond) 09 31802 20 Semester 2
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 32240 20 Semester 2
LH Authorship Analysis 09 30672 20 Semester 2
LH Business Discourse and Communication 09 31805 20 Semester 2
LH Clinical Linguistics 09 28696 20 Semester 1
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity 09 28649 20 Semester 1
LH Language Change 09 29697 20 Semester 2
LH Narratives across Media 09 36984 20 Semester 1
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1

Philosophy optional modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bodies and Beauty 09 30158 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and How to Understand them: Topics in Philosophy of Biology 09 30840 20 Semester 1
LH It’s About Time! 09 30950 20 Semester 2
LH Just War 09 29256 20 Semester 1
LH Nietzsche 09 26095 20 Semester 1
LH Philosophy of Mathematics 09 26094 20 Semester 2
LH Prejudice Race + Gender 08 26796 20 Semester 1
LH Reason and Belief 09 31431 20 Semester 2
LH Social Justice 09 30837 20 Semester 1
LH Topics in Philosophy of Religion 08 26825 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1