What you can study

Bristol is a truly literary city, home to the Bristol Festival of Literature, Bristol Women's Literature Festival, Bristol Poetry Festival, and a host of theatres, cafés, and independent bookshops. It has inspired writers throughout its history, from William Wordsworth and Jane Austen to Helen Dunmore, as well as Bristol alumni Angela Carter, David Nicholls and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. At Bristol, you'll study texts written from medieval times to now, as you explore literary traditions ranging from the local to the global.

You will find units on:

• poetry, fiction, children's literature, creative non-fiction, media, and visual culture
• postcolonial theory and Black studies
• gender studies
• environmental studies and medical humanities

Pre-requisites

At UK universities, students specialise from their first year and rarely take units outside their degree subject. This means that:

• Year 1 units are suitable for all students.
• Year 2 units require some university study in the discipline.
• Year 3 units require a strong background in the discipline.

Subject pathway students

If you have been nominated to Bristol on the Study Abroad (English pathway), you must take the majority of your credits from this guide.

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3