Communication, Media and Culture and English Literature

Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your own areas of interest within Communication, Media and Culture and English Literature whilst providing you with a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for your future career development. The programme is designed to enable you to gradually develop your knowledge and skills to become effective and independent learners.

Communication, Media and Culture is about understanding interpersonal connections between individuals, groups and corporations who construct their identities by means of new media and social interaction, persuasion and propaganda, journalism and branding. English Literature offers you the opportunity to study British and world literatures through a model of progressive specialisation that teaches advanced literary critical skills in the context of periodised, thematised, formal and theoretical modules.

We are Top 10 in the UK: Communication, Media and Culture and English Literature is ranked 8th in the Guardian Media and Film Studies subject league ranking 2025.

In Year 1 modules include Culture, Criticism and Literature, World Literature, Critical Theory, Shakespeare, Understanding Communication, Understanding Media, Understanding Culture, and Academic Literacies. In Year 2 there are modules in American Literature and Culture, The Literature of Space, The Novel and Modernity, Culture, Crime and Transgression, Communication, Culture and Organisations, Critical Media Literacies, Design for Online Communication, and Intercultural Communication. In Year 3 there are specialist optional modules offer intensive, small-group teaching, designed to build on the work you have done in Year 2. In addition, you will choose either the Contemporary Literature (Synoptic) module or the Dissertation Module, working one-to-one with a specialist lecturer.