English Language and Creative Writing (Placement Year) : BA Hons : Q4WV

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s degree in English Language and Creative Writing combines the in-depth study of the English language with the writing of original and imaginative fiction, poetry or plays. These two different focuses reinforce and complement each other.
Your Creative Writing courses are taught through a combination of lectures, readings, practice and discussion in regular tutor-led workshops. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your writing skills and cultivate a strong feeling for words with an appreciation of the tones, weights, nuances and registers of the English language. You’ll be encouraged to stretch your own boundaries and to extend yourself technically, to develop the motivation and drive you’ll need to thrive in your future career.
You’ll begin your degree with core courses including Creative Writing and English Language. You’ll move on to subjects such as Stylistics and Intermediate Creative Writing before completing your degree with advanced Creative Writing and English Language modules.
You will have the opportunity to spend Year 3 on placement with a public, private or voluntary organisation in the UK or overseas. This experience will boost your employment prospects and will help you to decide on your career direction and the kind of organisation in which you want to work once you graduate. You will be doing a real, responsible job – with all the satisfaction that brings. Our Placements Team will support you in finding and applying for a suitable placement that will support your professional development. Applying for a placement is a competitive process and the preparatory modules you will complete in years one and two are designed to give you the best chance of success in your placement applications. You will also be provided with dedicated workshops, 1:1 appointments with careers professionals as well as opportunities to speak with employers here on campus.

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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
  • English
  • Writing
  • Creative Writing
  • Communication Training
  • Linguistics
  • Writing Workshop
  • Stylistics
  • Corporate Communication
  • Communication

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
    • Placement Preparation

Optional

    • Linguistics
Year 2

Core

    • Developing Academic Practice
    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • Stylistics
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Child Language Acquisition
    • Corporate communication
    • Creative Non-Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • CREW Year 2 Half modules option
    • Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
    • Dissertation Preparation
    • English Grammar
    • English Phonetics
    • Independent Study
    • Introduction to Intercultural Communication
    • 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 for the stage
    • Writing place and landscape
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
    • Work Based Learning Reflection
Year 4

Core

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

Optional

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop Year 3 (half unit)
    • Advanced English Phonetics
    • Advanced Short Story: Form and Practice
    • Cognitive Linguistics
    • Corpus-based English Language Studies
    • Creative Non-Fiction II
    • CREW Year 3 Half modules option
    • 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 Adaptations for Stage and Radio
    • 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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