Why choose this course?

• English Literature has a 94.2% overall student positivity* score (National Student Survey, 2023)
• Specialise in the literature genre and period of your choice
• Giving you up to date media skills and a great speaker programme

 

Would you like to grow from passionate reader into a critical thinker and literary scholar, and become a creative communicator in your own right? In a fast-paced, multifaceted media world, people with the ability to write, design and harness innovative technologies are in high demand. On this course you’ll gain real-world skills, learning how to create and publish content.  

 

We’ll introduce you to writers and thinkers who will open doors to contemporary worlds and cultures remote from your own, and help you explore more familiar literature in ways that challenge your preconceptions. This means you’ll study literature written in English by writers from all parts of the globe, whose voices are relevant and important in our modern world. You will also learn how to apply these skills of analysis to other representations of the world, through cinema, television, magazines, the internet, and we will develop your critical awareness of how the media reflects and influences the world around us. You will study the ways in which people communicate, the channels used and develop the practical skills that foster your confidence and creativity in working with emerging media technologies. 

 

Whatever your taste in literature, there will be something to interest and provoke you. From The Tiger Who Came to Tea to Jane Eyre, from Paradise Lost to Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, we’ll broaden your literary horizons and hone your critical thinking. We’ll also sharpen your practical skills enabling your career to get off to a flying start. 

 

You’ll be taught by academic staff who bring fresh thinking to our accessible, engaging courses. Some are active researchers of international standing, who bring their own passion for their discipline into the classroom; others are dynamic teachers with extensive industry experience. 

 

The course nurtures hands on technical skills, original creativity, agility, critical thinking, effective communication skills, confidence, and entrepreneurial attitudes, enabling our graduates to thrive in a rapidly changing industry. Careers in film, TV, radio, and journalism are obvious career pathways but our graduates also go into employment in public relations, advertising, and teaching.  

 

Applying for this course is easy. Simply add us to your UCAS account by using the institution and course code mentioned in ‘Key information.’ There is no interview for this course. We’re just interested to hear why you want to study this subject at degree level. If you haven’t done either or both of these subjects before, that’s fine. You’ll likely have hobbies or extracurricular experience that show what skills you already have that you can bring to the University.