Education Studies and English Literature (joint honours)

Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your learning interest within Education Studies and English Literature whilst providing a solid foundation in the discipline and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for your future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable you to gradually develop knowledge, skills and to become autonomous, effective and independent learners.

Education Studies is the academic study of education comprising a multi-disciplinary range of modules in history, psychology, philosophy, sociology and educational research. English Literature offers you the opportunity to study a wide range of literatures, both classic and less well-known, developing your critical thinking skills in a city where literary inspiration is everywhere.

In your first year, you’ll explore child and adolescent development and you’ll learn about children’s rights and early childhood policy. In English, you’ll build the core skills and understanding you need for undergraduate study with modules in critical theory and the literature of Oxford.

In your second year, you’ll analyse alternative educational provisions. You’ll learn about emotional development and explore inclusive learning environments. In English you’ll broaden and deepen your knowledge in relation to topics like transgression and environments, as well as movements and cultures past and present.

In your final year, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what you care about most, including your dissertation. In Education, you’ll examine the experiences of marginalised or excluded children. You might scrutinise the perceived links between youth culture and deviance. Or you might examine the impact technology has on learning. In English, you can explore literary topics like urbanisation, madness and modernism, and interrogate the role of literature in society.