Bachelor of Arts - English Language and Philosophy (QV35)

English Language at Cardiff has a distinctive character. As would be expected of any good course, students will be provided with a rigorous grounding in the analysis of the language.

Students will learn such essential linguistic tools as phonetics, grammar and discourse analysis from those who are helping develop those fields. Since they take a broad approach to language, they will also learn how to analyze the types of multimodal texts (for example combining word, image and sound) that predominate in contemporary media.

Language analysis, though, is just the starting point. What makes Cardiff special is our focus on the intersection of language with culture, society, politics and mind.

Philosophy at Cardiff is distinctive for its strong emphasis on ethics, politics, and philosophy of mind and its equal attention to ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ styles of Western philosophy.

As a joint honors student will find that often there are complementary issues and perspectives that link subjects, be they critical analysis, historical contexts or recent research.