During your three years you'll explore an incredible breadth of art - fiction, painting, poetry, sculpture, drama, architecture, graphics, photography, film and more. Combining these two subjects into one degree gives you a rich understanding of communication - visual, written and spoken - across centuries and cultures. You'll study English language, literature and drama from Old English to the present day. We have one of the most diverse range of modules of any UK university so you can follow your existing passions and explore new topics.

Careers overview

These joint honours degree creates a unique combination of subject knowledge and professional skills.

The diversity of topics and approaches means you'll develop an extremely wide range of professional skills:

Visual and critical analysis

Historical and theoretical study

Object-based and academic research

Collaborative and independent working

Flexibility and initiative to focus on different areas as required

Advanced writing, presentation and communication skills

With such a wide range of skills your career will be:

resilient - as the nature of work changes you can adapt

flexible - you can choose across different sectors as you develop and grow and opportunities arise

creative - come up with new ideas and responses to developing situations

Recent graduate destinations include:

advertising, marketing and public relations

publishing, journalism and broadcasting

curation, conservation and museum work

business, finance and management

school and university teaching

charity and voluntary sector

acting and theatre work

arts and heritage management