Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - English Language and History (QV3C)

The English Language degree examines a wide range of varieties of English in their social, cultural and historical contexts. It teaches students how to closely analyze texts ranging from everyday discourse to fictional narratives to the language of the media.

Studying English Language provides students with a sound knowledge of how language is structured, how it developed and spread globally, and how it functions both in society and in people's minds, but it also equips them with a variety of practical critical and analytical skills. Liverpool Hope University prides themselves on offering a challenging and stimulating degree with a wide range of innovative teaching and assessment methods. The university places an emphasis on employability through how language is used for professional purposes and the practical and transferable skills valuable in selected careers.

The study of History helps students to understand how individuals, communities and societies have lived in the past and how those past experiences have helped to shape the present world. History helps us make sense of the world and understand what may lie ahead because the future is shaped by its history in so many ways. This History degree gives students the opportunity to study a wide-range of historical periods from the Early Modern period to more recent contemporary historical events.

By studying with Liverpool Hope University, students have the opportunity to study the Tudors; Witchcraft; the court of Charles I; the British civil wars; the British Empire; European Nationalism and Imperialism; the birth of Modern Europe; The British Empire; Gender politics; Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust; British-Irish relations and the Northern Ireland conflict; the role of food in human conflict; the Spanish Civil War; and Museum and Heritage studies.