BA Literature - In BA Litt, It's Lit
The Bachelor of Arts in Literature (BALiit) program, originally an offshoot of the Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature (ABLL) program, is a four-year degree course that focuses on literary and cultural studies. Compared to ABLL, the BALitt program is not an English course per se. It specializes more on the development of the students’ literary and cultural proficiencies. They are exposed to different areas of literature and its allied disciplines, such as media studies, digital literary studies, gender studies, hermeneutics, and postmodernism. Equipped with the most celebrated theories and concepts in the field of literature, the program is intrinsically adept and abundant with the culture of internationalization. In this regard, however, the program trains the students to be equally proficient in English and Filipino, thru the study of literatures written in both languages. This is also one of the unique features of the program, for it uses both English and Filipino as the medium of instruction.
Career Opportunities
After graduation, alumni of the BALitt program are expected to be respectable specialists and authorities in the fields that require critical and creative skills. They may succeed in the academe, as teachers or college lecturers; in the government, as speech writers; in the publishing industry, as writers or editors; in mass and social media, as reporters or influencers; in the entertainment industry, as script writers or copy editors; in the creative industry, as authors; in diplomacy or foreign relations, as rapporteurs; in marketing, as advertisers; and even in the arts or cultural industry, as connoisseur, researcher, or historian.