We ask graduate Marie-Claire Chappet why she decided to study English at Cambridge
Marie-Claire Chappet is editorial assistant at The Sunday Times Style magazine
Name: Marie-Claire Chappet

Degree: English

Age: 27

University: University Of Cambridge

Occupation: Editorial assistant, The Sunday Times Style magazine
Julie Andrews once said that the beginning is a very good place to start and I tend to agree with her. After all, you should always trust any woman who can make clothes out of curtains and pulls hat stands out of handbags.
An English degree at Cambridge firmly takes the Julie Andrews approach. If you want to study it, then you start right at the beginning and follow through to the modern day, with barely a detour. That?s not to say that the course is necessarily linear ? my first term focused on the Renaissance before tackling medieval literature ? but it follows the stringent policy of compulsory modules centred in historical periods. You can?t leave without having covered the basic eras: medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment and Victorian. Though there is the option of a Modern paper in your final year, Cambridge believes that when it comes to anything post Queen Victoria, you can be left to your own devices. University of Cambridge graduates
English at Cambridge
There is much to be said for Cambridge?s rigid course. Though I would rather have pulled teeth than have to read Gawain and the Green Knight again I am grateful for having been exposed to ...