BA (Honours) in Literature with Law - Including Foundation Year in Colchester United Kingdom | University of Essex

Our four-year BA Literature with Law (including foundation year) is designed to build your subject expertise and academic abilities. The foundation year (Year Zero) gives you a solid base in these areas, setting you up for three subsequent years of undergraduate studies at Essex.

From day one, you'll be part of Essex's vibrant global community, studying at the UK's most internationally diverse campus university.

This interdisciplinary program bridges literature and law, cultivating critical thinking, creativity, and analytical skills valuable to both fields. Through BA Literature with Law, you'll gain comprehensive training in these complementary disciplines while examining law's social dimensions and its connections to literature. Legal cases often hinge on textual evidence and storytelling - we'll examine how narratives function by studying literary forms and techniques.

Conversely, legal perspectives can shed new light on literary themes like property disputes, criminal acts, justice systems, and punishment. We'll investigate how legal frameworks might offer fresh interpretations of literary works.

The curriculum addresses crucial intersections between law and literature, including depictions of crime, justice concepts, incarceration experiences, and writings about war and migration.

Key components include the collaborative Law and Literature module and a year-long Independent Research Project where you'll explore a self-chosen topic with faculty guidance.

Essex excels in commercial law, public law, and human rights law, ranking 3rd in the UK for law research power (REF2021) and 47th globally for Law in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023.