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Hi my name is Sabine Vanocur and I am the

program director of english in the department of english, Creative

writing and american studies at the University of Hull.

And I'm here to tell you a little bit about

the B.

A. In english.

Um You may also be interested in the B.

A. In english language and literature which has english modules

on it um and in the B.

A. In in in creative writing and english which again

has a lot of our english modules on it.

So if you are interested in those two, I'm just

kind of referring you to the videos that my colleagues

have made on those two particular degrees.

Um Now we sort of often ask the question why

study english at how and the first thing I would

like to say actually.

Um and that's not part of our six official reasons

um is the beautiful campus, I think you really need

to come to the campus to sort of see how

lovely it is, how much of a community feel.

It gives, its very leafy.

Um It has a lot of things going on and

people because it is a campus community, get to know

each other very quickly, sort of very easily meet people

from your own department or also from other departments.

Um And a lot of things are constantly going on

on the campus.

So that's a kind of pre reason as they were

but in terms of kind of six reasons well um

we are in the top 15 for student satisfaction.

Um we are and that's very important.

We have 90% employability, so 1990% of our graduates or

either undertaking further study or they are unemployment a year

after kind of graduating.

So that is really very important because you are of

course studying a degree in order to achieve something, you

know, for it to sort of be the jumping off

point to sort of, you know, very interesting kind of

professional future.

Um we are in the top 25 for English in

the Good University Guy, 2021.

Um but very importantly, um our degree allows you to

study topics the world is talking about um and that's

kind of quite important, we have recently reviewed our program

and really kind of incorporated into the new program, a

lot of very interesting um modules that deal with sort

of real life um you know, facts from the world

that that deal with the world today, one of them

is the environment and for the picture up there.

Um and that's really kind of, you know, part of

one of our modules in the second year, which is

a kind of very interesting module called writing the Environment,

where you look at all sorts of um you know,

writers writing about nature, but also writing about climate, the

climate crisis, you know, Greta thunberg for instance, is kind

of one of them.

Um So, so, you know, that is kind of very

important reason why you should, you know very seriously considers,

you know studying at all.

Um The other kind of, you know, uh point is

that we're working, you will be working with internationally renowned

scholars, We have our teaching staff are scholars in a

wide range of topics from the Middle Ages and the

early modern period.

You have a very strong early modern period team to

the 18th century.

We have specialists in the 19th century victorian age.

Um and then we have specialists in the 20th and

the 21st century and a lot of these people are

very, very well renowned and published internationally.

Um and I think that is important.

We we teach what we research and that kind of

makes for people being very induced about their um you

know, they're teaching And then finally, and that's also very

important how ever how ever since it was city of

culture in 2017 um is involved, you know, in a

real sort of, you know, cultural kind of regeneration.

So it's a very sort of thriving local scene, very

thriving global scene where you can try out things.

Um you know, one of the, you know, um one

of the kind of groups for instance is humber mouth

how how noir we have a sort of weekly games

night for those people who are kind of gamers.

So you can get involved and meet people that way.

There's a very, very kind of strong um student run

english society that organizes um talks with authors, but also

um your opportunity to do some writing of your own.

So you could write you could submit an essay or

you can submit a poem or you can submit a

scene um to their kind of annual publication, which is

called The Scribbler.

And then we also have the creative writers who do

you know, a kind of trimester?

What every trimester um a show.

Um they are called HQ.

Right, It's again a student run organization and that also

allows you the opportunity to do some writing of your

own. But it's also very nice event where you can

go listen to some writing.

Um we usually try to do it um in the

student kind of cafe so people can have a little

drink at the same time.

And it makes for a very nice kind of very,

you know, communal evening.

I'm going to tell you a little bit about our

program and our modules, but for the moment I'm just

practicing. So I'm not actually completely telling you about this,

but, you know, one of them, for instance, is dystopian

literature. Um one of them is we have a strong

strand on creative on crime and transgression criminality.

So that's, you know, one of these kind of life

events that we um you know right about.

Um and then we have um you know, very popular

the Gothic and there is a very good opportunity to

study Gothic literature.

Um right from the beginning um in the you know

18th century late 17th 18th century um to the 21st

century. Um And another kind of strong strand that people

are usually very interested in.

That we have been doing for quite some time is

Children's literature.

So you know we have a colleague who is a

specialist in Children's literature and she um you know we'll

we'll take you to a number of very well known

sort of young people's novels, young adult novels but also

Children's novels.

Um And then there's the writing in the environment module

that I have already talked about now.

Looking to the future.

What can you do with um uh an english degree

from the University of Hull.

Now in the past we would have said you know

you will become a teacher and a secondary school teacher

or maybe a primary school teacher.

But these days uh the way we have set up

our program which really involves you know teaching you very

very useful competencies for the future your future life um

competence competencies such as um um you know uh typing.

Oh so just for a second there I couldn't remember

any competencies anymore.

But of course there are things like presenting skills team.

Working skills I.

T. Skills are very important and we make sure that

you are you become very good at kind of PowerPoint

presenting for instance um at remote remote presenting which is

what we've all been doing during the covid crisis and

but those are kind of really really useful competencies and

skills that you're going to be practicing a lot here.

Um Now what kind of qualifications?

Uh we require we we are asking for BBC which

is a certain amount of points that I will look

up in just a second.

Um But very important I think to point out is

um if you don't quite get the grades that you

wanted, remember to get in touch with us because sometimes

we find out that you have a lot of work

experience or a lot of life experience um and we

look at the whole person basically and so your enthusiasm

for the course is also very important and very often

um you know we can talk a bit and we

can sort of you know make sure that you are

um you know that you know very well what you're

getting into but also you know that you are able

to do the course that you want to do.

So if you don't quite manage to get your A

level grades that you were predicted do get in touch

with us.

It's always important um to talk to people and to

sort of make yourself known to us.

So I've put the um email address of our admissions

tutor up anna fitzer.

Um She will be the person you are in contact

with his senior lecturer in our department.

So do you get in touch if you have small

queries or big, big questions very important to kind of

stay in touch and keep in touch.

Okay. I hope to see you soon.

Thank you very much.

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