This course will give you the opportunity to experience teaching from across two areas of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, bringing together expertise across a wide range of subjects. You will be taken on a broadly chronological journey of English Literature from the Anglo Saxon period through to the present day. In addition, you will investigate the sounds, words and grammar of the English language, and you will discover where English comes from, how it developed over time, how it varies across the UK and further afield, and how it is used in different situations. You will acquire the skills required for analytical language study, alongside the means to apply those skills to the study of historical and present-day English. You will practise key transferable skills such as essay writing and how to give a presentation. You will also have the opportunity to broaden the scope of your studies to investigate the interaction between psychology and language (psycholinguistics), child language development, and explore a range of methodological approaches used in study of English Language and English Literature.You will be able to apply to spend one semester studying abroad during the second year of your degree. Exchange partners are offered through the Erasmus or the Worldwide Exchange scheme.**Aims**Our Joint Honours degree in English Language and Literature affords learners the opportunity to explore the nature of human language in its individual and social context, as represented in particular by English. The degree programme encourage students to engage with a significant range of literary genres, and some non-literary genres, including those associated with film and music, with texts in the English language from the British Archipelago, the United States and other English-speaking communities, ranging historically from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. By the end of the degree students will have an in-depth understanding of the structural, historical, and cultural aspects of English. Students will have learned to think analytically and have developed a range of academic, presentational and organizational skills which are both appropriate to the subject and transferable to the wider context of employment and life-long learning.