English
English is a global language; today there are more people who speak English as a second or foreign language than there are native speakers. Our courses and programmes help students improve their English proficiency while studying English literature, linguistics, media, and culture – all with a clear focus on sustainability.
Courses and programmes
As a student at Linnaeus University, you can choose between studying English in the form of single subject courses (of which some are distance courses); or as part of one of our study programmes. With us, you will be able to broaden and deepen your knowledge. Studying English at Linnaeus University means participating in one of southern Sweden’s most inclusive and dynamic environments for language study.
English at undergraduate level
Level 1 deals with grammar, oral and written proficency as well as literature and culture.
Level 2 develops the ares from level 1
Level 3 offers courses involving a bachelor degree project of 15 credits. You can choose to specialise in lingustics, literature, educational lingustics or literature in the EFL classroom.
English at advanced level
At the master’s level, we offer a wide range of research-related courses and several programmes including the Master Programme in English Language and Literature (MELL). We also offer doctoral programmes and courses.
International possibilities
In the subject of English at Linnaeus University, we work with internationalisation at home as well as abroad. We have students from all over the world, many of whom are exchange students from our prominent partner universities. Our students also have the chance to study abroad, at one of these universities and departments.
After your studies
Many of our alumni work as teachers or translators, but in-depth knowledge of language and literature is also needed in the fields of administration, media, communication, and culture. Our master’s courses and programmes prepare students for a career in academia, and it is not uncommon that our alumni successfully move on to doctoral studies.
Studying languages at Linnaeus University
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International Possibilities within Arts and Humanities We actively work with ensuring that our teaching is as international as possible. We see internationalisation as a natural and integral part of…
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Doctoral Studies in English Interested in doing research within the field of English Studies? We offer third-cycle education for doctoral students.
Information to international and exchange students studying English
Research
In the subject of English, we carry out exciting research in literature, media, communication, linguistics, and didactics, elucidating and analysing historical as well as contemporary aspects of the language and its literature. Several of our researchers are part of one or several of the university’s world-leading centres of excellence, focusing on intermediality, post- and decolonial studies, and digital humanities. We are proud to say that we draw on this research competence in our teaching.
Research groups affiliated to the English subject
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Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) IMS is an interdisciplinary research centre that takes a broad media-oriented perspective on questions of narration, meaning…
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The Linnaeus University English-German-Swedish Corpus (LEGS) In the LEGS research group, we compare linguistic structures across English, German and Swedish. For this purpose we are compiling a…
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Centre of Language for Specific Purposes Centre of Language for Specific Purposes (CLSP) gathers researchers from the departments of Language and Swedish. Our linguistic and multilingual environment…
Research projects affiliated to the English subject
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Doctoral project: Towards Decolonial/Gaelic Aesthesis: Delinking from Anglocentrism, Predatory Extractivism and the Coloniality of Perception in Éirinn This doctoral project investigates the triadic…
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Project: Variation in the reference to quantified noun phrases In this project, we investigate how quantified expressions (e.g. 'almost all' and 'a few') are interpreted in connection to anaphoric…
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Project: Set size and reference In the project, we investigate by means of EEG how positive quantified expressions (e.g. "almost all" and "a few") are processed in connection to anaphoric reference.
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Project: Global and postcolonial comics This project investigates contemporary developments in comics and graphic novels from a global perspective, with a focus on issues of identity and migration.…
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Project: Ambiguous anaphoric reference in discourse This project will explore the mechanisms involved in the brain’s processing and construction of interpretations of anaphoric reference in context.…
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Project: Quantification in Swedish We investigate how native speakers of Swedish process sentences, such as "Some students fell asleep during the lecture but they didn’t miss much". The sentences…
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Project: Kashmir from the Margins: Violence, Identity and Memory in Conflicted Spaces In this research project, I study emerging literature written in English from a conflicted space, Kashmir and how…
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Project: Nostalgia in Contemporary European Culture (NCIC) In the project we explore the centrality of nostalgia to a wide range of contemporary cultural practices.
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Project: Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene This project responds from a humanities perspective to an urgent societal challenge: how can the Anthropocene ecological crisis be…
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Project: Luxury consumption and online reviewer discourse – the construction of knowledge, values and identities This project focuses on online reviews of luxury consumption, specifically reviews of…
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Project: Communication across Media Borders: The Limitations and Possibilities of Transmediation The project investigates how meaning is changed – corrupted or enhanced – when travelling among…
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Project: Narratives of Empire In this project we study how postcolonial and decolonial ideas are conveyed in popular culture.
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Metaphors in palliative cancer care This project aims to strengthen the scientific foundation for the use of metaphors in Swedish palliative cancer care, thereby contributing to development of praxis…