Program Description
Literature can offer new perspectives on familiar themes, as well as open doors to unfamiliar ideas and cultures which are temporally or spatially remote from your own. It is an ideal source for philosophical reflection, exploring and challenging the assumptions that frame the way we think, act and see the world around us.
This BA Philosophy and English Literature degree encourages students to expand their imaginative capacities and to critically reflect on possibilities for how the world could be, by engaging with a wide variety of perspectives. Students will gain skills in understanding how to read and interpret in context, and in how to formulate their own arguments, to arrive at their own conclusions.
All the English Literature and Philosophy lecturers are active researchers, so they’ll share the excitement of doing original work in a supportive and highly-rated academic community. The Philosophy team is in the top 15 in the Guardian League Table 2019 and rates as one of the 100 best Philosophy departments worldwide in the 2017 QS rankings.
