The BA in English at Cardiff Metropolitan Univeristy will engage with your enthusiasm for reading and literature and introduce you to advanced critical thinking in the form of theoretical practice. You will analyse a wide range of texts (including film and digital narratives) to explore the cutting edge of English as well as its canonical texts.?
A mixture of thematic and chronological modules ensures a good grounding in genre, context and period. You will challenge assumptions about the production of narratives and their relationship to questions of authority and identity. The degree has a strong contemporary focus and provides highly valued employability skills.
Employability & Careers:
This degree provides students with strong communication and analytical skills that are highly valued in today's employment market. These skills ar?e reinforced by the opportunity for student work placements. Graduates from the course have pursued careers in a variety of industries, including: media, publishing, journalism, education, public relations, marketing and heritage. A proportion of students advance to postgraduate study at either Master's or PhD level.
Employability Skills and Graduate Attributes:
Many of the skills you will obtain as part of this degree are also useful in industries beyond those listed above.Ê We ensure that our curriculum develops you as a graduate so that you demonstrate the following skills and attributes:
- Problem solving & analytical abilities
- Inter-personal and networking skills
- Global citizen (with knowledge of diversity & sustainability)
- Flexibility & Adaptability (life long learning)
- Effective Communication skills
- Creative & Innovative
- Digital Literacy
- Reflective practice.
