Our Joint Honours degree in English Language and Media and Culture offers a critical and intellectual insight into modern communication, contemporary society, and culture. Studying the English Language at Worcester allows you to see how language shapes our worlds, brings thoughts to life, and forms our identities through linguistic and stylistic choices. Media and Culture at Worcester examine how media, TV, and digital communication shape society, its values and politics €“ and, as a result, the human experience.
Many graduates of the English Language will take a postgraduate education course as a fourth year of study and enter the teaching profession. Others will find that the skills acquired through the study of English are particularly highly regarded in all professions where good communication skills are prized such as publishing, journalism, public relations, human resources, and web-based communication. English Language provides continuous opportunities to develop employability skills and includes work experience options. There is a range of opportunities to study for a semester abroad in Europe and the USA in the second semester of the second year.
Graduates of Media & Culture courses work in a wide range of careers to which communication skills are central, including marketing and public relations, publishing, media and journalism, business and industry, charities, and public administration. Furthermore, in a ‘media society’, where an understanding of how to communicate is all-important, graduates of media and cultural studies courses now work in a wide range of other industries and are involved in designing websites, writing publicity and press material, and running media training. Employment sectors include marketing, public relations, event management, teaching, business, and the public sector.