English Literature

Course summary

The English Literature course is the best possible course for developing your knowledge and enjoyment of a wide range of literary texts. You will learn how to read with insight and engagement, making appropriate references to texts and developing and sustaining interpretations of them. We study a wide variety of different authors, styles and genres, looking in much more detail at more challenging texts than at GCSE. Your writing skills, especially analytical and comparative, will increase enormously and this will help you with all other essay-based subjects. The English Department runs a variety of enrichment opportunities and where possible we arrange trips to see productions of the texts studied. Occasionally, theatre companies, cultural artists and authors are invited to give workshops at the school and A Level students sometimes attend external lectures on set texts. English students can go into careers in any field. Of those who study English in any form at University the most popular career choices include: Marketing, Sales and Advertising, Health and Education, Business and Finance, Arts, Design, Culture and Sports and Legal professions.