Anthropology and English Literature (Joint Honours) - BA (Hons)

Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your own areas of interest within Anthropology and English Literature whilst also providing you with 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 your knowledge and skills and to become autonomous, effective and independent learners. When you study Anthropology, you’ll explore what makes us human, what drives our diversity and how we’re connected to our environment. The English Literature programme 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 20 in the UK: Anthropology and English Literature is ranked 16th in the Guardian Anthropology and Archaeology subject league ranking 2025.

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