Literature and History with a Placement Year

About this course

Literature and history are natural companions in the study of the human past and its creative expression. History gives you the tools to analyse how events unfolded, how societies changed, and what forces shaped the experiences of people in the past, using primary sources, historiographical traditions, and careful argumentation to reconstruct and interpret what happened. Literature invites you to read with close attention the works that those same periods and societies produced, understanding texts not just as objects of aesthetic interest but as evidence of the values, anxieties, and imaginative resources of their time. Together, the two disciplines produce graduates who can read critically, think historically, and argue with precision across both evidence-based and interpretive modes. At the University of East Anglia, this four-year programme includes a placement year, giving you the

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 56% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 6% of graduatescards →
• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 20% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →

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