We're curious about language, histories and global cultures drives our insight and learning and it’s the place to develop your intellectual and practical skills.
Our innovative courses are built on this ethos, adding value to employability, providing an superlative student experience and embracing international opportunities. Fields of study for undergraduates range from classics such as English and linguistics, philosophy, and history to the latest media, communications and journalism degrees - offering the perfect combination of theory and practice. They are academically rigorous and underpinned by the latest research.
Beyond the classroom there’s work experience, external projects, volunteering, field trips, year abroad and international exchange - truly immersive experiences.
We develop postgraduate courses that advance and expand learning. There’s hands-on training in collaboration with industry partners for taught courses and guidance, support and inspiration to develop research. From progressing the study of English, history, philosophy and linguistics, to developing professional skills for careers in journalism, museum and heritage development, creative writing and English Language Teaching – we turn passions into professional success.
Underpinning this is the School’s long and rich history of producing internationally excellent and world-leading research. Our research explores who we are, where we come from and where we want to go, as individuals and as a society. Through inquiry, critical reflection, creative interventions and dialogue, we deepen our understanding of how we inhabit and make sense of the world.
Our subjects
English Language Teaching
Develop your English language and teaching skills with NTU’s rewarding and career-focused English language teaching courses.
English, Linguistics and Creative Writing
Join NTU’s passionate community of experts, authors, poets, and researchers — all here to nurture your talents as an independent, creative communicator.
History and Heritage
Study history and heritage. Learn from the past. Use your analytical thinking to create a better future. Open up endless career possibilities by challenging your digital literacy and developing much sought-after interpretive and communication skills.
Joint Honours
Get the best of both worlds with a joint honours degree. This flexible option allows you to put together your own degree based on your interests and ambitions.
Journalism
Give a voice to the voiceless. Challenge the narrative. Shape the future conversation. Your confidence, judgement and communication skills will open doors for you to tell the stories that matter.
Philosophy
Learn to think more critically about the world around us. Tackle the philosophical problems and global issues faced by today’s decision-makers. Make your own mind up about the issues that matter.
Politics, International Relations and Global Development
Are you fascinated by our changing world? Passionate about current affairs? See yourself working in local government or at the UN? Our internationally recognised research directly feeds into your degree, making sure you’re learning about the latest findings in your field.
Media, Communications, Film and Television
Are you an inspiring creative with a passion for film, photography or television? Make your mark on one of society’s most powerful influencers with one of our diverse degree courses.
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More from Art and Humanities
International Partners
To facilitate global engagement the School of Arts and Humanities has set up strategic partnerships with institutions across the globe.
Employability and Careers
Discover employability and careers in the School of Arts and Humanities. Through shaping our curriculum, and working with employers and our alumni, we are embedding and enhancing employability in every degree in our school.
Services to Business
The School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University provides a range of language courses, consultancy services, bespoke training and short courses.
Our departments
Department of History, Heritage and Global Cultures
The department of History, Heritage and Global Cultures is a diverse community of scholars and practitioners from a broad range of humanities disciplines.
Department of English, Linguistics and Philosophy
Our department brings together writers, editors, scholars, linguists and philosophers, taking the most stimulating insights from the fields of English literature, linguistics, philosophy and creative writing to consider the values that made us who we are today.
Department of Journalism and Media
The department delivers cutting-edge courses and training at the very forefront of journalism and media education. Our links with local and national television, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, media companies and voluntary organisations open up the classroom for real-world learning.
Nottingham Institute of Languages and Intercultural Communication
Delivering innovative and accredited programmes of professional development, academic training and English and foreign language learning.
Latest news
Expert blog: Henry Kissinger - revered statesman or diplomatic rogue?
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Expert blog: Pick-and-mix spiritualities - Distorting religiously inspired texts and the Islamophobia behind it
Tue 28 Nov 2023
Poetry is good for mental health, study shows
Tue 07 Nov 2023
New parents who express breastmilk are marginalised by health advice, study shows
Mon 02 Oct 2023
NTU academics win the 2022 NAVSA Book Prize
Thu 14 Sep 2023
From late nights in Nottingham to early breakfast at BBC Radio 1 – How NTU alum Alice Dale conquered the airwaves
Tue 29 Aug 2023
What's coming up
14
Dec
Book Launch: Towards a Collaborative Memory
Room 117, Dryden Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ
02
Jan
Workhouse Lives IV: No filthy scum for our doorstep: Controversy over the siting of workhouses, Professor Steven King, Nottingham Trent University.
15
Jan
Celebrating Languages and Language Heritages in Nottingham
Room 45, Fourth floor, Newton Building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
06
Feb
Workhouse Lives IV: ‘“Beggarland Unmasked”: James Greenwood’s ‘A Night in a Workhouse’ and Undercover Investigations of London’s Beggars’, Professor Matt Rubery, Queen Mary University, London.
05
Mar
NTU Spring Careers Fair 2024
Newton Building, Main Entrance, Nottingham Trent University, City Campus, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, NG1 4BU
05
Mar
Workhouse Lives IV: ‘'Recycling the Mad: The Workhouse in a Constellation of Healthcare and Punishment Spaces, 1750-1914', Professor Elizabeth Hurren, University of Leicester.
Our Research Groups and Centres
Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies
The Centre connects NTU researchers and projects in policy, religion, conflict, race, gender, memory & welfare through varied methodologies & knowledge exchange
Centre for Research in Literature Linguistics and Culture
The Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics and Culture is a multi- and interdisciplinary hub that promotes research innovation across Literary Studies, Linguistics, and Media, Film and TV Studies.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
Our latest publications
'No more for Now or Praps Never': the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s
Mother country: Leonora Brito writes Wales – black British identity, maternity, and memory in the Welsh short story
Surnames in adoption: (re)creating identities of belonging
Magazines and modern identities: global cultures of the illustrated press, 1890-1945
The matter of Europe: introduction
Exploring the value of cross-functional, cross-disciplinary action learning sets for curriculum co-creation
Featured facility: The Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism
