English and Creative Writing

BA English and Creative Writing

Full-Time Programme

This course is designed to develop your knowledge, understanding, and analytical and creative skills through the analysis, interpretation and creation of literary texts. The range and choice of modules ensure that you will achieve a sound understanding of the principal genres and periods of English literature while at the same time developing your own creative skills.

Course Content

The Creative Writing Project will enable you to undertake an extended piece of creative work, encouraging a full expression of the skills that the programme as a whole is designed to develop.

In Creative Writing and the Creative Industries, you will undertake a project to market your own work.

Successful creative writing students will have the option of continuing their creative work to Master's level.

Teaching and Learning

Student Support

You will be assigned a Personal Tutor who remains with you throughout your degree course and are available to discuss personal and academic problems. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the individual, and you will find both academic and administrative staff only too pleased to help.

Careers

English with Creative Writing is particularly good at developing the transferable skills that employers prize. The degree emphasises imagination, independence of thought and intellectual flexibility as well as professional skills. Emphasis is placed on both acquisition of knowledge and on creative work as well as your ability to manage your own learning, and your development of personal and collaborative communication skills.

After graduation, students may enter one of the professions association with communication-related employment, such as journalism, publishing, teaching or the media, but our students fit just as easily into many other career environments. From the outset we help you to develop career options based on interests and skills.

Entry Requirements:

• GCE A and AS-level Tariff points typically from 3 A-levels together with either 1 AS-level or Extended Project Qualification (typical offer BBC, including Grade B in English, plus a C in either an AS or EPQ). General Studies/Critical Thinking may be accepted.
• Irish Tariff points from 5 subjects.
• Scottish Tariff points from 3 Advanced Highers plus 1 Higher.
• Advanced Diploma Tariff points in Creative and Media, including A-level English for Additional and Specialist Learning. Extended project in a related subject preferred.
• BTEC ND DDM in a related subject.
• IB Diploma 32 points.

For all of the above, 5 GCSEs or equivalent at Grade C or above are also required, to include English.