Welcome to B.A (Hons) in English Language & Literature

At a Glance

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  C.S. Lewis, Novelist, Poet, Academic & Literary Critic.

ELL is an academic discipline that includes the study of literature written in the English language including literatures from the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Including in the program is the study of basic English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and stylistics), and English sociolinguistics (including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of the English Language of the World).
The Department of English offers a 4-year bachelor degree on ‘Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Language and Literature (ELL). To become a graduate in this field one has to complete 132 credits.The degree is meant for the students who wish to acquire skills in reading and writing and have a solid grounding in Anglo-American literature for secondary or post-secondary teaching or to develop analytical and expressive skills valuable in many professional careers.