Students of English have the opportunity to study texts and authors which they choose from an exceptionally wide range of English and American literature; these texts are studied in a variety of ways, some emphasising, for example, the social or political context in which a text was produced; others are studied with a more linguistic/stylistic approach; the course aims to develop students� skills in reading literature and to introduce them to new critical techniques and ways of studying literary texts; through the study of English literature students develop critical skills and a range of invaluable intellectual and interpersonal skills: the ability to evaluate and interpret material and the capacity to explain it logically, orally or on paper, the ability to work independently and as a member of a group, to manage their own time and to work to deadlines; in criminology and criminal justice, criminology examines theories and evidence relating to crime, criminals and victims, while criminal justice studies explore the various responses to crime, and victims, from informal to formal legislative measures of social control and crime prevention, and examine the way in which the criminal justice system works, from policing through to imprisonment.