BALiterature and Sociology

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA
Course code	LQ32

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

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Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

Understanding Employability: Preparing for Your Future
Literature: Origins and Transformations
The Sociological Imagination
Media, Culture and Society (optional)
Contemporary Texts and Contexts (optional)

Year 2

Continuity and Controversy in Sociology: Sociological Analysis II
Social Psychology (Sociology): Self and Interaction (optional)
Versions of Modernity (optional)
Approaches to Text (optional)

Final year

Current Disputes in Sociology: Sociological Analysis III
Research Project: Sociology (optional)
Post-War(s) United States Fiction (optional)
Understanding and Writing Science Fiction (optional)

Career opportunities

The number of careers that lead from courses in literature and creative writing is almost as large as the number of graduates. Two particular areas in which graduates have had recent success are publishing and the theatre.

In addition, former students of our Department have become professional writers, or have gone into teaching, journalism, broadcasting, marketing, film and video production, museum and library work, graphics and printing, finance, and the Civil Service.

Recent graduates have been employed as:

Subtitling for Sky TV
An assistant director for a music video for an internationally-acclaimed band
An English teacher
A media studies teacher