Make your future
In tomorrow's world it will be vital to cultivate reason, creativity and imagination.
In this rapidly changing world, our vision is to help you make your future.
From the classics to poetry slams and from Chaucer to the contemporary, we look at how the world is perceived, described, analysed and changed through language. Our aim is to guide you towards mastery of the written word; to help you move beyond the consumption of words to a greater understanding of their deeper meanings.
We will give you the confidence and support to take this understanding of language and apply it to today’s problems.
We might help you make a film explaining how Romantic ideas about nature can address the ecological crisis. You might write a computer programme that extracts meaning from a poem, conduct original archival research, create your own edition of a classic text or publish your own book.
At Kent we prepare you for your creative and professional life. We offer you rigorous academic training in all aspects of literary history, critical theory and creative writing.
We help you to hone the digital skills, critical thinking, communication and information processing skills that are essential in the twenty-first century job market.
And we show you how to use literature to address the most pressing challenges of our time.