Course summary

• Read texts from a wide range of literary periods, and debate key issues such as identity, race, gender, what it is to be a human.

• Work with staff who are world-leading researchers and prize-winning novelists and poets and benefit from their cutting-edge approaches to the study of literature, language, writing and theory.

• The link drawn between critical and creative approaches make Strathclyde’s a unique approach to the subject.

• Cultivate employable skills in written and verbal communication, analysis of complex cultural ideas and creative thinking.

• Focus on contemporary language and culture.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of English literature, while getting the chance to become a fluent linguist and, with our year abroad programme, an opportunity to experience living, working and/or studying in another country.