Single honours courses

The highest academic standards, flexible courses focusing on the subject areas you're passionate about, and the freedom to use your imagination.

Explore the structure and content of our undergraduate courses in the School of English at Sheffield.

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Undergraduate

English Literature BA

Explore the full range of literary arts from Old English to the 21st century. You’ll have the opportunity to study modules that encompass film, theatre and creative writing, as well as poetry and prose, and to engage with diverse texts from all over the world, both in English and in translation.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 3 years full-time
  • UCAS code: Q306
Undergraduate

English Language and Linguistics BA

This degree is carefully designed to give you a solid foundation in linguistic theory, and to link this theory to the huge array of real-life contexts in which language is used. You will learn all the skills essential to becoming a successful linguist, whilst building on the areas of linguistics that you find most interesting through optional modules.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 3 years full-time
  • UCAS code: Q3Q1
Undergraduate

English Language and Literature BA

This unique single honours course focuses specifically on the intersection of language and literature. As well as having access to a range of literature and linguistics modules, you will study dedicated modules that explicitly explore the relationship between literature and language.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 3 years full-time
  • UCAS code: Q304
Undergraduate

English Literature BA (part-time)

Explore the full range of literary arts from Old English to the 21st century. You’ll have the opportunity to study modules that encompass film, theatre and creative writing, as well as poetry and prose, and to engage with diverse texts from all over the world, both in English and in translation.

  • Start: September 2021
  • Duration: 6 years part-time
  • Programme code: LITU15

2020 entry single honours English courses

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