Communication, Media and Culture and English Literature

About this programme

Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your own areas of interest within Communication, Media and Culture and English Literature whilst providing you with a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for your future career development. The programme is designed to enable you to gradually develop your knowledge and skills to become effective and independent learners. Communication, Media and Culture is about understanding interpersonal connections between individuals, groups and corporations who construct their identities by means of new media and social interaction, persuasion and propaganda, journalism and branding. 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. We are Top 10 in the UK: Communication, Media and Culture and English Literature is ranked 8th in the Guardian Media and Film Studies subject league ranking 2025. In your first year , you’ll gain an understanding of communications, digital culture and the media. You’ll also develop your critical, analytical and specialist writing skills. 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 , 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. You’ll begin to specialise, following your