English Literature BA (Hons)

This degree allows you to explore a wide range of approaches to reading texts while developing your own expressive writing skills. You will study texts in context with an emphasis on writing critical or creative as practice. You will be encouraged to develop a sense of yourself as an autonomous, critical and analytical reader and writer, building on your strengths as you negotiate your own pathway through the degree. A distinctive element of the course is the way it combines an analysis of the differing roles the written word plays across cultures with the opportunity to apply this analysis in your work. Graduates follow a wide range of career paths and students have gone on to work in the media, publishing, journalism, education, and the voluntary sector. Careers advice and training are built into the student experience with targeted workshops in years 1 and 2 and an annual employability event offering meetings with local and national employers, advice sessions and presentations. Many students go on to do further training in law, postgraduate literary studies, teacher training, and development studies.