| A bachelor degree student who studies literature | | | | cannot get you a job directly, studying it makes |
| learns to think creatively and critically. You | | | | you a better person and a much more dynamic |
| interrogate texts not because you have nothing | | | | individual. These are qualities which you need in |
| better to do but because literature affords you | | | | whatever job you do.Literature opens your eyes |
| powerful glimpses of lived experiences and | | | | to other lives and teaches you not to be |
| philosophy in action.When you study literature, you | | | | judgmental about other people's way of living, |
| are also studying philosophy, human psychology, | | | | which can greatly help you if your job requires |
| sociology, history, culture, race, sexuality and | | | | that you travel or work with foreigners.Literature |
| gender, religion and other aspects of the human | | | | also teaches you humility and courage, |
| experience all at the same time.The term 'English | | | | understanding and grace, while it gives you insights |
| literature' strikes people with awe and | | | | into the dynamics of good and evil, love and hate. |
| wonderment as they automatically associate | | | | So, whether you are a director of a major |
| someone who studies it with bookishness and | | | | international company or an events manager, a |
| intensity. People think that bachelor degree | | | | traveling marketing manager or a communications |
| students of literature are not only too serious | | | | engineer, literature is a helpful way of knowing |
| (nerds or geeks) for their own good, but also | | | | and comprehending your world to make you a |
| rather out of touch with reality. People fail to note | | | | better person and a better worker.So what do |
| that literature is not just Shakespeare, but | | | | you need in order to succeed in literature? |
| encompasses such a broad range of writing. You | | | | Basically, an inquisitive disposition and a love for |
| spend hours reading lots of books, including | | | | ambiguity as literature does not provide straight |
| material that is sometimes really old and really | | | | answers to the problems posed by the |
| quaint and yet you are not all Shakespeare fans | | | | text.Everything about this course is subjective and |
| nor do you all end up teaching.Literature is no | | | | based on interpretation. However, tools of the |
| longer studied merely for its textual richness | | | | trade will enable some guidelines and assistance as |
| alone, but for its relationship to gender and sexual | | | | to how far you can interrogate a piece of writing. |
| issues (feminism), political and social aspects (post | | | | Moreover, you must love reading as to study |
| modernism), philosophical possibilities and its | | | | literature requires a lot of your time as well as |
| historical value (historicism).Bachelor degree | | | | energy for writing. Last but not least, if you want |
| students have not only to read what is in | | | | to experience the power of written word, be |
| between the lines, but what the text leaves out | | | | moved by the rhythm of a poem, be amazed by |
| or unsaid in order to grasp what is said. Of | | | | the wonder of your world, then literature is |
| course, there will be tools to assist in this sort of | | | | definitely for you. |
| textual interrogation.While studying literature alone | | | | |