study/studying

[jamaica]

I would like to ask about use of study/studying in present tenses

I understand that to a question

"What do you do?"

I put an answer

"I am a student. I study at the university."
similar to
"I am a bus driver. I drive a bus."

But I found a phrase in a grammmar book :

"Jill is a student at university."
"Is she?" "What is she studying?"

So, is it correct to say:

"I study aesthetics and english literature at (such and such)university."
or
"I am studying aesthetics and english literature at (such and such)university."

on one hand it is temporal and current and also a general fact on the other

thank you for help

[Bridget]

<"I study aesthetics and english literature at (such and such)university."
or
"I am studying aesthetics and english literature at (such and such)university.">

You can use either. There are quite a few reasons why one might choose one form over the other, and one may also have no reason at all to do so.

With the continuous form, for example, the speaker may be perceiving the situation as temporary, with an end in sight, or he/she may have had a change occur in his/her life since the last time he saw the questioner. There are other reasons, but one needs context to gain a clearer idea of those reasons. Grammar books cannot give complete advice on such things.