Why you should study Literature:
Have you always loved to read and to write and do you have more books than can fit into your book shelf? Do you refuse to eat or to do anything else before you finish a book? Are your favorite places to hang out the library and the book store? Do you love the smell of books and do you spend every minute of your free time reading or writing? Then you should definitely consider studying Literature!
If you love reading books and analyzing them, Literature will be the right major for you. Studying Literature gives you the opportunity to unfold your creativity, to explore the fields of different genres and to do what you love most, namely reading and writing. It allows you to discover various writing techniques and thus expand your writing skills, to see what lies beneath the surface of a book and it informs you about literary terms and devices.
By studying Literature, you will learn about the different types of writing, like creative writing and academic writing. You will be able to choose from various lectures, depending on your interest. If you are interested in the Victorian Era, you could choose a lecture on Jane Eyre. If you like works like The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson or The Turn of the Screw by Henry James you should choose a lecture on The Gothic Novel. If you are more interested in Shakespeare, you could select a lecture on his famous History Plays or his Late Plays.
Not only are you given the opportunity to choose from a variety of lectures, but you also have different courses to choose from like a course on Short Stories, a course on James Joyce or on Victorian Poetry.
You have so many options and you can choose your lectures and courses based on your interest. That’s what’s so great about it. You can learn so much and share your passion with other students and you can enjoy doing what you love.
Maybe you think that everything that you read so far sounds too great and you might ask yourself if it is too good to be true. You might ask yourself what jobs you will be able to find if you decide to study Literature.
I can tell you that you can go in many directions and you may find your dream job if you know what you want, stay focused and are good at what you do. You could pursue a career in publishing, for example. You could become a writer, an editor or work in libraries, museums and book stores. The public relations sector might also be open to you if you can apply the skills you have acquired as a university student and can meet the qualifications potential employers are searching for.
Who knows, you might even write a book someday and become a well known, best seller author! So just go for it and study Literature if that’s what you really love to do! If you have goals in life, are persistent and determined, you will be successful in anything you set your mind to! Good luck!
