English Language and Creative Writing : BA Hons : Q3WV

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

All Creative Writing students combine writing with study in another subject. You’ll be taught Creative Writing through lectures, readings, practices and discussion in regular tutor-led workshops by practising writers. The English Department has links with literature festivals and regular live literature nights. Students on the English Language and Creative Writing degree scheme become members of a thriving community, getting involved with the Writing Society, poetry nights, and spoken word events in the city. You’ll have the chance to develop your writing skills, cultivating a strong feel for words and their meaning within context.
The country’s largest Linguistics and English Language department delivers a programme consistently rated amongst the best in the world. You could be analysing sound patterns or learning more about the tones, nuances and registers of the English language. The two different focuses of this degree reinforce and complement each other perfectly.In your first year you’ll study the core modules of English Language and Introduction to Creative Writing. You will build up a writing portfolio throughout the year, which counts towards your final mark, and you will have the opportunity to work in small groups to offer supportive constructive criticism on each other’s work. In the second year you’ll move on to Stylistics and Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop. You’ll also be able to select modules such as Discourse Analysis, Creative Non-Fiction: Genre and Practice and English Phonetics. We also offer a series of lectures on the business of being a writer. Your final year is made up of an Advanced Creative Writing Workshop and options such as a dissertation, Forensic Linguistics or Poetry and Experiment.
Many English Language graduates go on to work in education, publishing, the media and information technology. It is a subject highly valued in fields involving international communication, such as science, trade and international relations.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

Your degree encourages you to cultivate a highly creative approach to projects and fosters a keen sense of imagination. Developing skills such as these will allow you to contribute fresh new ideas in any career you choose.

Our English Language and Creative Writing degrees are of particular benefit if you wish to work in education, translation, information technology, management, the mass media, creative arts, social work and counselling.

Recent graduates have gone to work or train as speech therapists; teachers of English overseas; teachers of English as a mother tongue; computer programmers and consultants; bankers; chartered accountants; personnel managers; journalists; and social workers.

A sizeable proportion of our graduates take up employment overseas.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level English Literature, English Language, English Language and Literature or Creative Writing

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • International
  • Writing
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Phonetics
  • Communication Training
  • Media
  • Poetry
  • Stylistics

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • English Language
    • Introduction to Creative Writing

Optional

    • Linguistics
Year 2

Core

    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • Stylistics

Optional

    • Child Language Acquisition
    • Corporate communication
    • Creative Non-Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
    • Dissertation Preparation
    • English Grammar
    • English Phonetics
    • Independent Study
    • Language and Pedagogic Practice
    • Language Origins and Evolution
    • Literacy and Education
    • Poetry: Genre and Practice
    • Short Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • Sounds of the World's Languages
    • Structures of the World's Languages
    • The Language of Advertising
    • Understanding Media
    • Writing place and landscape
Year 3

Core

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

Optional

    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Dissertation
    • Forensic Linguistics
    • Language and Identities: Gender, ethnicity and class
    • Language Change in English and Beyond
    • Language in the Workplace: Topics in Professional Communication
    • Language, Culture and Thought
    • Longer Fiction: Skills and Techniques for Approaching a Novel
    • Narrative and New Media
    • Poetry and Experiment
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Schools Volunteering Module
    • Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory
    • Writing/Reading Poetry

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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