Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - English Language and English Literature (with a Year Abroad) (QQ33)

As a student of English Language and Literature, students will discover the complex and fascinating relationships between literature, politics and history and study language analysis and language use across different contexts. This three-year degree opens up a range of exciting career possibilities by helping students to develop transferable skills which employers want.

The course covers how we acquire language, how language works, how societies communicate and over a thousand years of literature, from Beowulf to the present day. Students will have the chance to study national and global literature, Renaissance literature, Gothic and genre fiction, 19th century literature, modernity and contemporary fiction, gender and culture, creative and professional writing.