Course Overview

A joint honors degree in English Language and English Literature will provide you with opportunities to develop your all-around understanding of the English language €“ how it is spoken and written and the literature it has produced. Studying English Literature at Worcester allows you to develop skills in close and creative reading, theoretical concepts, and a critical awareness of the relationship between texts and their contexts. 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.

Our English Language and English Literature degree provides continuous opportunities to develop employability skills and includes work experience options, on an optional work project module. 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.

Many graduates of English Language and English Literature 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 the English Language 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.

Graduates also often take a certificate in TEFL and become teachers of English as a second language at home or abroad. Those graduates who achieve particularly good results in their first degree may choose to progress to a Masters's course, which will then often lead to a career as a researcher or further study for Ph.D. Many students progress to careers requiring good communication skills such as Public Relations or develop research careers with media or publishing companies.

General Eligibility

104 UCAS tariff points

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• Students whose first language is not English must have a minimum standard of English at IELTS Level 7 with no element below 6.5