What’s the difference between the English Language degree (Q302) and Linguistics (Q100)?
There is a lot of common ground (well over half in most cases) between the two programmes: • English Language is studied mainly using the approaches of modern linguistics, and as well as studying the structure, history and varieties of English, it explores the notion of language in general, and our ability as humans to produce it. Many of the modules you are likely to take draw examples of linguistic phenomena from other languages. • In Linguistics at Newcastle, too, there is plenty of opportunity to study English, but more space is given to understanding the uniquely human language faculty and to the structure of other languages. • The two degrees have more than well over half their modules in common. • Students from the two degrees are generally taught together on the modules they take. Having said that, there are differences: • In English Language the outside subject you take at Stage 1 (worth 40 credits out of 120 in the year) is taken from a very wide range, whereas in Linguistics
