Our selection of Combined Honours courses, one of the most extensive in the United Kingdom, enables you to diversify your learning and employability skills. Study for a degree that combines two different subjects; beneficial to those who have particular cross-discipline interests or those who are not yet sure what they want to specialise in. Visit our website to find out more about Combined Honours courses and what benefits they can offer you.

ENGLISH LITERATURE

If you have a passion for reading books and for thinking about the ideas they engage with and the debates they inspire, then you will enjoy studying English Literature with us. Our modules encompass a wide range of authors and genres, from well-known figures to marginalized voices and texts, ripe for re-discovery. You’ll learn to analyse and write about works of literature in their cultural and historical contexts, through lectures, seminars, workshops, and tutorials, here in Canterbury, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

You will explore areas including:

• modern and contemporary literature
• the Brontës, Dickens and other Victorian writers
• the works and literary afterlives of Austen, Shelley and other Romantic authors
• Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries on the page and in performance
• Chaucer and the literature of the Middle Ages
• women’s writing
• black and minority ethnic literature.

SOCIOLOGY

Join our vibrant and inclusive learning community to investigate the ways in which social life is organised, structured and experienced. You will be supported and inspired through our interactive teaching and our commitment to personal tutoring.

Alongside a wealth of exciting modules, you can take advantage of volunteering opportunities and the chance to reflect academically on any paid work that you undertake. The course has been designed to enhance your employment prospects through the offer of modules that support particular career pathways, and a curriculum that prepares you for work as well as postgraduate study.

You will explore areas including:

• contemporary social issues and problems
• classical and contemporary sociological theory
• research methods.