BA (Hons) English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University

This degree covers literature from the earliest works in English to books being published today, including the Gothic, children's and YA literature, world literatures, UK literatures, Romanticism and Modernism. Students are taught by active researchers and creative writers, undertake a second-year work placement module and write an extended research project in Year 3.

Faculty: Cardiff School of Education & Social Policy  |  Duration: 3 years full time; 4 years with foundation year; 6 years part time  |  Intake: 2027 entry  |  Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1: Reading Literature, Children's and YA Fiction, The Writer and the Critic, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, World Literatures, Critical Approaches. Year 2: Romantic and Victorian Literature, Modernist Literature and Culture, A United Kingdom? Literatures from the Union, Gothic Literature, Imaginary Worlds and Possible Futures, Work Placement. Year 3: options such as Hyper-contemporary Literature and the Book Prize, Narratives of Place and Belonging, Reading the Planet and Queer Texts and Stories, plus a Dissertation.

Career pathways

Academia (MA and PhD), teaching, publishing, media, arts and cultural sectors, freelance writing and editing, advertising, PR, copywriting, video game production and law.

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