English Language

Course structure

• Before you start

  You may be required to complete an activity before you start in order to help introduce you to the subject. Check back in the summer term for more details.

• Course content

  We are continually talking and texting, browsing the internet, sharing stories, giving advice, watching television and reading a book or magazine. You will examine language use, capture your own data (actual examples of spoken and written language) and learn to use a range of research methods. Other areas of study include accents and dialects, conversational analysis, technology and language, power and language, language and social change (links well to History and Politics) and child language acquisition.

  You are also encouraged to supplement your programme with the Extended Project.

  Find out about The Extended Project

• Life after Henley

  A key course for students planning to continue on to university to study
  subjects such as English language and linguistics, journalism, advertising, creative writing, law, sociology, psychology and teaching. It also provides a strong grounding for those wishing into pursue many other subject areas at degree level.

  Last year students went on to a range of destinations including university places at Cardiff, Newcastle, Winchester, Manchester, Portsmouth, Nottingham, Bath, York, Leicester, Royal Holloway and Brighton.

  Alternatively, students may consider direct entry into employment or further training