BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing
Bachelor's degree
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
Do you have a story to tell, or have you always wanted to be a writer? Perhaps you want to learn how to be a critical reader or gain a greater understanding of the craft of writing.
Studying English Literature and Creative Writing with us will help you find your voice, whether as a poet, playwright, novelist or scholar of literature.
This joint course combines the study of literature with the practice of creative writing. Studying literature will give you a greater understanding of how literary texts work, while this improved critical insight will help you put principles into practice in your own creative writing.
We offer a stimulating and supportive place in which to explore your ideas, hone your craft and understand literary texts. Our creative writing modules are taught by lecturers who are themselves award-winning practitioners and who bridge the gap between creative and academic approaches to literature. They include our poetry lecturer Wayne Holloway-Smith, winner of the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and Seamus Heaney Prize nominee.
Over the three years you can choose specialist creative writing modules in poetry, creative non-fiction, drama, short story writing and prose fiction. Those specialisms are reflected in our English Literature modules, which range from children’s and young adult literature to film adaptations and work written in English from all over the world.
By the time you graduate, you will have a polished piece of work which has the potential for publication. Recent successes for our students include short stories published in Bandit and AnotherLenz magazines and poetry published in Rising and international magazine Poetry London.
In your first year, an underpinning core module, Becoming a Writer, will introduce you to genres and forms and examine the universalities of dialogue, plot and language.
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About this course
We give you:
An exciting and creative environment where you are taught by published writers
The opportunity to hone your craft through supportive feedback from tutors and peers
Modules which enhance your critical insight and enable you to put principle into practice
A platform for publishing your work and a springboard for your future life as a published author
An inspiring programme of visiting writers, workshops, readings and masterclasses
UCAS points 104
A Level bcc
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Subjects
- Creative Writing
- English
- Writing
- Poetry
- Prose
- American Literature
- Project
Course programme
Creative Writing is a practice-based discipline, with the opportunity to experiment by working in different forms. You’ll be taught in small groups in workshop spaces and will receive feedback from your tutors and your peers as you share your ideas, learn to edit and refine your work and develop your presentation and performance skills.
Our two resident poetry research fellows, Mark Waldron and Rachel Long, offer masterclasses, workshops and give regular readings, adding to the vibrant and creative environment in which you’ll be working.
Level 4
Module
- Becoming a Writer
- Genre Fiction: Building Worlds
- Writing for the screen
- Texts Up Close: Reading and Interpretation
- Make it New: Literary Tradition and Experimentation
- Border Crossings: Modern Literature from around the World
- Shakespeare Reframed
- Identity and Contemporary Writing
- Journeys and Quests: Adventures in Literature
- American Voices: Introduction to US Literature and Culture
- Romantic Origins & Gothic Afterlives
Module
- Graduate Skills
- A Nation of Readers: British Identity and Enlightenment Culture
- Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 1900-1945
- American Literature to 1900
- Twentieth Century North American Writing
- Images of Contemporary Society: British Literature and the Politics of Identity
- Writing for the Stage
- Language and Imagination: The Art of the Poem
- Writing for the Screen
- Age of Transition: the Victorians and Modernity
- Literature at Work
- Revisiting the Renaissance
Module
- Tell It Slant: Writing and Reality
- Short Story Workshop
- Renaissance Tragedy
- Eighteenth Century Bodies
- Literature Project
- Between the Acts: Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1890-1920
- Postmodern Genders
- Children's Literature:Growing up in Books
- Native American Literature
- East End Fictions: Interdisciplinary Studies of London's East End
- Worlds Apart 1: Utopian & Dystopian Writing
- Texts and Screens: Studies in Literary Adaptation
- The Golden Age: Victorian Children's Literature
- African-American Literature
- Generation Dead: Young Adult Fiction and the Gothic
- Twenty-first Century American Writing
- Euro-Crime on Page and Screen
- Creative Writing Project Poetry
- Creative Writing Project Prose
Additional information
UCAS code - Q3W1
EU Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing