English Language & Linguistics

Our undergraduate programme

We offer a full range of undergraduate courses in English Language, covering topics such as semantics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, grammar and lexicology, phonetics and phonology, name-studies, English historical linguistics, and medieval English literature.

At undergraduate level we offer a full degree programme in English Language, leading (as in all the ‘ancient’ Scottish universities) to the degree of MA.  and are usually taken in the first two years of the MA curriculum, alongside other subjects. 

Students with an appropriate qualification (e.g. A-level English Language) may enter directly into Level 2; please contact the Head of English Language (Jeremy.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk) if you wish to discuss this possibility.

constitute our Honours programme; entry to Honours is conditional on good progress at Levels 1 and 2.

Glasgow’s undergraduate programme in English was rated as outstanding in the most recent National Student Survey.