My English degree has put me in really good stead to tackle anything that comes my way

Rebecca smiling at the camera
Rebecca Symns-Rowley
News Desk Intern, CNN
BA English Literature
2024
Watch recent graduate, Rebecca Symns-Rowley, explain how the skills she gained from her degree, and support from our Faculty employability service, helped her secure an internship at the CNN news desk. 
Undergraduate

English Literature BA

2025-26
/ September start
A Levels AAB
UCAS code Q306
3 years
/ Full-time

Explore the full range of literary arts from Old English to the 21st century. You’ll have the opportunity to study modules that encompass film, theatre and creative writing, as well as poetry and prose, and to engage with diverse texts from all over the world, both in English and in translation.

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