讲故事是人类的基本活动。每天我们都在交流笑话和轶事，在生活中的重要事件需要被告知和重述多次，然后它们才能实现这种模式并完善成为“我们生活的故事”。我们讲故事和阅读故事的目的是为了获得乐趣和提供信息，但同时我们也阅读以更好地了解自己和周围世界。英语文学学士学位涵盖了莎士比亚，扎迪·史密斯，艾米莉·勃朗特和阿姆姆等人。传统模块与更多创新选项并存，涵盖童话，后现代主义，通俗文学，南亚写作，女性写作，实验文学和数字技术等领域。我们的课程旨在提高您以越来越复杂和多样的方式阅读文本的能力。我们通过研究文学的结构和形式
If you can get lost in a book for hours on end, and enjoy writing or even drama, English is a natural choice. Storytelling is part of every culture and reveals much about a person’s lived experience, values and aspirations within a given time. Taking the English BA at Brunel is an opportunity to uncover the richness of English literature history - its periods, genres and diverse storytellers - through a set of underlying themes. Your journey will commence with a module on ‘Reading Resilience’ to help equip you with the required skills and competencies relevant to literary studies, so you can approach any topic with confidence. After a first year of modules that pass through modern literature and formative texts to help develop your critical reading, your exploration in English is very much down to your own interests and choices. In years two and three a wealth of optional modules await you, covering every period and genre from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, postcolonial writing to the women’s movement, with plenty of choice in contemporary and genre fiction like comedy, science fiction and horror. Throughout your literature degree you will be encouraged to express your own thoughts and creativity in your coursework and seminars, which will help you to grow as a critic and writer.<br><br>Careers and your future<br>On completion of the English BA, you will have a set of enviable skills which are vital for a variety of careers. Many Brunel English graduates go into teaching, media-related jobs like publishing, marketing and journalism, and others into the business world as account executives, campaign organisers and consultants. Brunel graduates of this degree fit just as easily into other career environments, and the opportunity of doing a placement year to gain experience in a job role and industry sector will be a distinct advantage. See our Careers page for more information.