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Why study Arts at UL?

At the University of Limerick, we deliver an Arts Degree which is flexible and wide-ranging, offering 19 subjects in all. You can study a combination of subjects (as Single Honours or Joint Honours) from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Why Study English at UL?

The English programme at UL will enable you to develop critical and analytical skills through an appreciation of the English language and its literature, as well as through the study of the social, cultural and historical contexts in which that literature was produced. You will learn about literary analysis, literary history from the 16th century to the contemporary world. You can choose electives to suit your own interests, in Irish, British, American, and World literatures, and in women’s writing.

Course Structure

What You Will Study

English at UL has four main components that run throughout the four years of the programme:

• Literary analysis and theory, critical practice.
• Historical schools/eras in literature (e.g. Renaissance Literature; Enlightenment and Romantic Literature; Victorian Texts and Contexts; Literary Modernism and Postmodernism);
• Specialist electives in Irish Literature (e.g. Gothic Literature in Ireland, Irish Literary Revolutions 1880-1930; Irish Literature 1930-1990; Study of a Major Irish Author; Contemporary Irish Literature);
• Specialist electives in World Literatures (e.g. American Literature; Contemporary African Literature; Postcolonial/Postcolonial Literature in English; Contemporary Women’s Writing).

Career Prospects

Careers open to you with a degree in English include;

• Journalist
• Editor
• English Teacher (Professional Master of Education required)
• Communications and public relations
• Media production, media research
• Publishing and Advertising
• Research and teaching at third level
• Development and research in voluntary organisations

Follow-On Study

• MA Creative Writing
• MA English
• MA Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies
• MA Gender, Culture and Society
• MA Journalism (with Grad Dip option)
• MA TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages)

Other majors options in Arts:

• Economics
• French
• Gaeilge
• Geography
• German
• History
• Irish Music and Dance
• Linguistics with TESOL
• Mathematics
• New Media and Cultural Studies
• Philosophy
• Politics and International Relations
• Psychology
• Public Administration and Leadership
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Drama and Theatre Studies
• Theology and Religious Studies