If you enjoy learning about the past and you’re also fascinated by the use of language and how it shapes the world around us, then this course is for you. We cover a broad range of topics enabling you to explore medieval and modern history, while also specialising within English language and linguistics. * History has a 91.6% student satisfaction rating (NSS 2020). * You can choose option modules to focus on the topics that interest you the most. * You’ll gain valuable real world experience. In Year 2 you’ll also have the chance to go on a work placement, designed to enhance your skills ready for employment. * Innovative assessments such as analysing children’s speech development, pitching an idea for a historical video game or creating a visitor trail for a national museum. * State-of-the-art facilities including a forensic linguistics lab, a research and resource centre and conference labs. Our team of English academic staff are ranked in the top 5 in the UK for the quality of their research publications (REF 2014). On the course you’ll be introduced to the basic concepts and theories of linguistics. We’ll encourage you to study the role of language in society and how it helps humans understand things: how we acquire it, how it changes and evolves, and how it forms such an array of ways to communicate. We’ll carry out conversation analysis, sociolinguistics and stylistics to get under the surface of the spoken or written word. Additional Costs: Placements - The nature and suitability of your work placement is decided in consultation with your tutors. You are responsible for making your own arrangements for any travel or incurred costs in relation to the placement module, or in relation to the optional placement year if you chose to undertake one as part of your degree.

Year 1 Core modules: Early Medieval Europe: c500 - 1215 Twentieth Century Britain Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics Option modules: Two options from a list which may include: Approaches to Language Study Introduction to Stylistics History of English Sociolinguistics Year 2 Core modules: Research Skills Work Experience Placement Field Linguistics Option modules: One option from a list which may include: Hitler's Germany: Life and Death in the Third Reich Modern India: from Raj to Independence c.1860-1950 Hands on History: Voice Film and Material Culture Holy Wars: The Age of Crusades Digital Victorians After the Black Death: Late Medieval Society Reformation and Revolution Growing Up in the Past: Oral Histories of Childhood and Youth Then choose two options from a list which may include: Communication across Cultures Conversation Analysis Stylistics Corpus Linguistics Pragmatics Phonetics and Phonology Syntax Researching Democratisation Living an Examined Life: Political Philosophy and Ethics in the Real World Year 3 - optional placement year Placement Year Final year Option modules: One option from a list which may include: Dissertation (History in Practice) Dissertation in English Language and Linguistics Honours Level Project Then choose up to three options from a list which may include: The Elizabethan Age History and Myth: Writing and Re-writing the Middle Ages Community and Identity in the Later Middle Ages Henry's Empire Britain on the Breadline The Great War: Culture and Society The Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance and Memory in Wartime France Mindsets, Institutions and Madness The Body and the City Bloodlands: Historical Geography of Interwar East Central Europe India’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’: The Making and Re-Making of the World’s Largest Democracy Then choose up to three options from a list which may include: Relations Across Cultures Translation in Practice Audiovisual Translation Language of Humour Multilingualism Language and Power Child Language Acquisition Face and Politeness Forensic Phonetics and Forensic Linguistics

Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: VQ31

Institution code: H60

Campus Name: Main Site

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Applications from international students will be considered on an individual basis, and with advice from the University's International Office. Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/how-to-apply/entry-requirements/

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

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If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.5 overall with no element lower than 6.0, or equivalent will be considered acceptable.

Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our 'Where are you from?' information pages.

https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/where-are-you-from/

Student satisfaction : 66%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 65%

Go onto work and study: 80%

England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1
EU	15000.0	Year 1
International	15000.0	Year 1

This information is for applicants applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2021/22. Please note that your tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X). This webpage will be updated with 2022/23 tuition fees as information becomes available. If you are an EU or International student coming to study at the University of Huddersfield, please visit the International Fees and Finance pages for full details of tuition fees and support available - http://www.hud.ac.uk/international/tuition-fees/ Please email the Student Finance Office (sfo@hud.ac.uk) or call 01484 472210 for more information about fees and finance.

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