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**Starting in September 2024, the School of Arts and Humanities, which includes this course, will move to our City Campus. The course itself will remain the same, with no changes to its content. If youve already applied for this course, you should have received an email explaining how this move might impact you.**
This joint honours degree will provide you with a fundamental degree which will equip you with vital skills which many of todays leading employers are seeking. Our LINGUISTICS course will help you to analyse the way language constructs and constrains meaning, wh...
**Starting in September 2024, the School of Arts and Humanities, which includes this course, will move to our City Campus. The course itself will remain the same, with no changes to its content. If youve already applied for this course, you should have received an email explaining how this move might impact you.** <br/><br/>This joint honours degree will provide you with a fundamental degree which will equip you with vital skills which many of todays leading employers are seeking. Our LINGUISTICS course will help you to analyse the way language constructs and constrains meaning, which will help you to carry out your own research during your third year of study. MEDIA is a popular course that enables you to design your perfect degree by offering a mixture of theoretical and practical modules that consider approaches to the media industry. Youll gain work experience where youll be encouraged to develop connections within the industry to build your CV and to expand your career prospects.<br/><br/>Linguistics at NTU is joint 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (NSS 2020). This course will equip you with the tools for analysing language and for conducting your own research. You will become aware of the immense power that our language has to construct and to constrain meaning. To study this course we will not expect you to have prior knowledge of grammar; foreign languages; or technical terminology. It will provide you with the knowledge to analyse language on a deep scale to understand the power that language has to construct meaning in societies. Youll examine the latest developments in clinical linguistics, media discourse, child language acquisition and research in languages and gender. <br/><br/>Media is an exciting subject and will allow you to learn from industry professionals and academics who are creating the latest cutting edge research within the field. Youll examine a range of texts and aspects of media including; lifestyle magazines, social networking sites, advertising, public relations, gaming and journalism. From this youll develop advanced critical analysis skills of media texts, audiences and many institutions. The course incorporates theoretical and practical approaches to the media which will help you to communicate in range of ways. You’ll be encouraged to undertake work experience with influential organisations within the industry to build your CV and your connections within the industry. <br/><br/>The course will teach you how to project manage, develop a high level of written and verbal communication and be able to critically analyse media texts, audiences and institutions. This course will provide you with the necessary tools which are needed to understand various communications, societies and the ability to construct meaning of language and to carry out your own research. Youll develop effective theoretical and practical communication, critical thinking, problem solving techniques and analytical skills. Our recent graduates have gone on to work in; social work, healthcare, finance, customer and public relations, journalism and broadcasting. Other undergraduates have pursued careers with; the BBC, Sky, Brit Asia TV, Channel 5 and IBM. Others have gone on to explore roles such as; teaching, speech and language therapy, law, journalism and film and television script-writing. 100% of our joint honours Linguistics undergraduates are in work or further study within six months of finishing their degree (DLHE 2016/17).
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
3 Years
Start Date
09/2025
Campus
City Campus
Provider Details
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Course Code
PQ31
Institution Code
N91
Points of Entry
Year 1
UCAS Tariff104 112 104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent) Access to HE DiplomaPass your Access course with 60 credits overall with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3 Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Diploma and up to two other qualifications. Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate and up to three other qualifications (one of which must be A-Level equivalent). A level104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent) T LevelWe will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points. |
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