Courses give students access to a collection of literatures written in English. They foster various approaches to textual analysis and criticism while exploring the relations between literary works and their social, historical or cultural contexts. Studying English Literature at Wits prepares one for a wide range of careers in communicative professions. Reading, thinking and writing about literature challenges our understanding and stimulates our creativity in a wide variety of ways. English focuses on and develops important academic skills that you will be required to use in all your subjects at university. For this reason, English is considered by many people to be an integral component of a Humanities degree. Aside from the obvious career in teaching English and literature in English and cognate courses both locally and internationally, English involves content and skills which are vital for careers in writing, research, journalism, editing, publishing, management, human resources, public relations and so on.

High School Completion International English Language Testing System (IELTS) with a minimum test score of 7.0