How To Survive A Literature Degree - Tips For English Majors

I feel so much likely in the last "Take Care n Goodbye".

My hints would be more cynical. But then I am from Scotland. And the weather is terrible.
Find out who is giving the lectures on the novel/poetry etc upon which that you intend to write your essay/paper and then try to get your work marked by that individual. Then attend the lectures, take copious notes, and agree as creatively as possible with whatever interpretation the said lecturer profers of the text in question. People love to be told they are geniuses. Especially academics.
Plan B would be do all of the above and then disagree with the lecturer so brilliantly that you change his or her decades held opinion and make a friend and supporter for the whole of the rest of your academic career.
Plan A is a lot easier.

Robin can I apply for any university in Australia for a master degree in comparative literature with a bachelor degree in French literature
Plus can I have any financial aid as an international student

Hello Robin Waldun! I think I found you in the right time. Your content feels amazing for a student like me, who is majoring in English and still in the first year. Yeah I really struggled with theory and criticism in the beginning, but I feel how it gets better with time. There is a lot to learn from all your videos. I love them. Please keep on uploading these amazing, rare, valuable , (not to mention the aesthetic vibe!) videos....

What was your minor?

Love it

While I was earning a BA in literature (graduated in '80), I was, at the same time, immersed in the widespread American revival known as the Jesus Movement. Those many years heaped onto me a preoccupation that kept me from openly interpreting assigned reading materials. Any secular work I looked at quietly I viewed as an enemy of the gospel. And so, my mind failed to adopt the various secular disciplines of analysis I was being taught, for I more convincingly clung to the principles that were taught in the many anti-intellectual, grassroots Charismatic groups I repeatedly met with throughout each week. In fact, so many of the papers I wrote I easily loaded with biblical remarks. I failed to take the secular analysis training seriously, and left it to lay by the wayside for so many years. But then, in those days, I was broke, a very poor pauper whose learning took seven years to complete a four year degree. I love words, have written a memoir, finally, at age 71, and am still wrestling with the interferences of an entrenched religious foundation, which, if one takes a serious look at, isn't as much an impetiment as a hyper believer might think.

What type high paid jobs can i get to study in English literature?

I have interest in English literature to have masters in it..may we communicate outside the page

Can it be a sin to know?-Paradise Lost by John Milton

Do you think it would be possible for a foreign student to get an English degree? I love reading, writing and English has always interested me, to the point I am one of the best in every class I participate in (for reference, I read a lot and I am studying to get my C1 at seventeen, which means I have medium-high English skills). Still, I am nowhere near a native English speaker, and have only spoken “real" English for a few months as an Exchange students. Do you (or anyone else that is watching the video) know anyone who has done it?

“made a lot of enemies … with writers who are dead” oh god did i feel that

If you read 2 out of 10 of the assigned novels, you will have a 2 out of 10 chance of ever graduating. When a professor devotes an exam to a novel you didn't read, you will be deciding on a new major. This is bad advice. And yes - I have a degree in English literature.

I never got a degree, I been reading philosophy , psychology and quantum books for thirty five years. I love reading, but i am average guy who has a day job. Downey California ❤❤

I would loveee to have my dark academia moment studying English literature in Edinburgh or Oxford University yk buttttt I've been diagnosed with "The curse of the middle class" and I want to kind of earn money so ......maybe my next life😭 if im a privileged woman i can fulfill this dream of mine

Nice video
Good information
Easy to understand

I turn 35 this week. I've recently gone through a break of with my ex partner of eight years. I'm In a weird place emotionally. The one thing that I am passionate about it literature. At 35 is it too late for me to go back to college to pursue this? It's probably a stupid question, but one I've been pondering nonetheless. This video was very informative.

hanging in there!

You have a very unique voice 👍🏼

I wish I found you earlier, Sir. Intrigued by your channel description. I hope you keep doing this if that's what you like.

Good job!! I love this video..

Your hairstyle reminds me of one poet I like.
Just want to know what should I say to the barber to get my hair like this.

I'm doing my masters in English literature currently and I've lost the passion to study this subject. But it's too late to change.. so I'm trying to revive that love I had for English years ago :)

You are such a intellectual and attractive adult young man! I love your voice.

Your advice great! I was lucky because as a younger teen even I was constantly reading literary theory.

Getting my English degree was the best thing I ever did. I loved every minute of it.

Hello fellas 👋🏻 English Language & Literature student here!

I'm only few months away from graduating, picking literature for a degree was a long ride but definitely worth it

And I study English Literature while being French. I don't even know my french literature :)) I like to suffer.

Hello, I got my associate of arts degree in English and I am pursuing my bachelor's degree in English literature and looking into getting a Master's in English Literature afterwards.. what is the highest math class required for a Master's in English Literature?? (I hate math).

To be fair, my main concern for university is the money and the living situation. I’d love to study in the Netherlands, but living in any university city is expensive and rare and if I’m in a country I don’t even speak the language of, how am I going to get a job!? I’m terrified of just not being able to cover the costs of university, a space to live, books and food and everything!

better tip perhaps from someone who did a PhD in English: take classes from profs who come highly recommended. I made the mistake a couple of times of taking a course because I was supercurious about the subject(s) (Hardy's The Dynasts, Browning's The Ring and the Book). you can read and interpret and ENJOY great things on your own--by the time you're a Senior or Junior. take classes by PROF! there are MANY lame-os out there in US and UK academia. crashing bores, pompous asses, Wokedopes pushing social justice agendas rather than explication du texte. f them.

What about for Comparitive Literature, will it be the same?

Congrats Senpai Waldun, all the best with your future endeavors.

I started watched some of your videos since the end of last year i think my first one was the "Melbourne's Fashion Sense" video but that was my gateway drug into the other philosophy videos on the channel.
As a compsci student with literally no breadth into literature it was nice to be able to listen in on these very interesting topics in philosophy and your takes on them using more or less laymen terms while on my regular commutes.
A friend of mine actually pointed out that you were on campus which i had no idea about and I was very hyped to meet you in person.
Sorry for running through frame on the recording btw that was me. I probably should have kept my stuff next to the door if there was a chance i had to leave early. 💀
I hope you will forgive me and thanks for checking out our pamphlet also.

Best wishes, Luigi

Really amazing video - the editing, your way of speaking, the way you introduced the sponsor, and also your way of introducing your tips as an experienced student.

guys plz I am looking for English novels that I can tackle from a feminist perspective
like Jane Eyre etc
I really need help n some suggestions!
Like novels in which the male female character /or female characters were oppressed by their society n maybe their husbands
I need it for my dissertation
I have been suggested to do Sister Carrie but unfortunately the teacher told me that it has been delt with in our department:((

That was really my dream but I kind of lost my way and instead I pursued an IMC degree.

Great

The writer's Tag

Go go go 😂😎😊💜

Any tips for people who graduate with a low Gpa? my reason is mental health🥲

not an English major but am watching nonetheless because I find your voice soothing 😌🤷‍♀️😅

Why not just read the summaries of the books? Why read the actual books and not the summaries?

i’m in the last year of my degree in english and psychology - i’ve realized that english is in a way, the study of everything. an english degree is almost like a lens to see things through

Which university did you go to ?

Here's another well-structured, extremely interesting and motivating video, R. C Waldun! As an avid reader and literature enthusiast, your videos are a real godsend! Having said that, I have a question: is there a literature theory volume that you would recommend? I would love to analyze my readings more critically and go a bit beyond the close reading level, so to speak...
Thanks for your amazing content, I'm looking forward to your next video 😁

I really love how you make these vids!