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