This course provides you with an excellent education in literature, theory and visual culture. There are opportunities for creative writing, study abroad, as well as work experience in local schools. Students will study cultural and historical literary contexts and topics including travel writing, piracy, law, censorship, sexuality, science, money, and empire. Students read widely, have a feeling for words, and are not afraid of intellectual challenges, and a range of learning experiences, including one-to-one tutorials, creative writing workshops, field trips, school placements, drama workshops, as well as lectures and seminars. In your first year, you will take core modules on the form and material context of different literary narratives; the relationship between drama and cinema; and concepts and debates in critical theory. You will also have the opportunity to study Poetic Language, medieval English, or a foreign language. In your second year you will choose from a wide range of literary and cultural topics from the medieval period to the early twenty-first century. In your final year you will consolidate your knowledge and skills as an independent researcher in literary studies by completing a dissertation on a literary topic of your choice.