English Literature

If you love books or enjoy exploring new ideas, theories, and themes, our English Literature BA(Hons) degree will help indulge your passion.

You’ll read and discuss some of literature’s greatest works and learn to navigate digital resources and present your ideas using the latest media.

Discover how to research, analyse, debate, and create. With a host of module options to choose from and no exams (only unique forms of coursework assessment), you can delve into the subject and consider a range of employment routes later. Impressively, 90% of graduates from this course are in work and/or further study 15 months after graduating (Unistats 20/21 data, UK domiciled graduates).

Why Study English Literature BA (Hons) at University of Huddersfield? Each year, our students can take an active role in events at Huddersfield’s own literature festival, too, getting involved with everything from programming to planning. You can also attend a variety of exciting field trips; past excursions have included a visit to the Bronte parsonage and Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

There’s a chance to see your work published via GRIST Books – an in-house publishing company which champions students’ work.

We want you to finish your degree with the kind of practical, transferable skills needed in the real world. Critical thinking, researching, independent study, communicating and arguing persuasively are just a handful of skills you could hone, with the course potentially leading you to consider further study. Apply instead for a complementing role; you might, for example, consider marketing, journalism, publishing, or copywriting. You could also consider teaching or law.

Professional Bodies At Huddersfield, you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your degree† so that you can gain valuable qualities and experiences that could help you to get the career you want, no matter what your field of study is.

†full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees.

Why Huddersfield? Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.