English and American Literature with a Placement Year (Hons) University of East Anglia

Overview

Our English and American Literature degree provides tools to comprehend the past and present. UEA is home to UEA Live, which hosts an acclaimed annual literary festival. Previous speakers include UEA alumni like Ian McEwan and Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. Other speakers have included Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Zadie Smith, and Salman Rushdie. 

On this English and American Literature with a Placement Year (Hons) course from University of East Anglia you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of Anglo-American literary cultures. It prepares you for a range of career options. Our graduates have moved into research, teaching, journalism, and the Civil Service. Publishing, NGOs, PR, and marketing are among other destinations. Are you ready to start your literary adventure? 

Placement Year

Want to graduate with professional experience? On this course, you’ll normally spend 9-12 months of your third year* in a placement, gaining invaluable work experience and employability skills in a relevant area of your choice. You’ll be expected to seek your own work placement and will be supported in doing so by UEA’s Career Central Service and your School. Support for you to find your placement will start early in the first year and will be tailored to the particular needs you'll have at various stages of the process. 

The field in which you'll do your placement will depend on your own interests, and some of the preparatory workshops will help you have a clearer idea of what these are, what your values are, and which career they may lead to. English and American Literature graduates go into a wide range of sectors, and so placements can be done in fields such as heritage, business, the public sector, creative industries and many more. We'll, however, require that the tasks you’ll conduct as part of your placement meet the required learning outcomes and are complex enough to help you develop a range of skills that you’ll be able to translate and use during the final year of your degree and your post-graduation career. 

Career Pathways

Examples of careers you could enter include:  

• Media  
• Marketing  
• Finance  
• Publishing  
• Events management  
• Journalism