English and Linguistics with Foundation Year

About this course

English and linguistics is a combination that explores language from two complementary directions: literature examines how language is used with artistry and purpose to create fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that illuminates human experience; linguistics examines language itself as a structured system, asking how it is acquired, how it varies across communities and contexts, how it changes over time, and what it reveals about cognition and culture. Together they give you an unusually complete understanding of English as both a medium and an object of study. At Birkbeck College, the combination is particularly rich because Birkbeck's student community is predominantly adult and often brings professional experience of language in action, whether in education, translation, journalism, or other fields. The programme, which includes a foundation year, provides a supported entry route into t

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 40% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 15% of graduatescards →

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