English Literature, Creative Writing and Practice : BA Hons : QW38

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

This combined major degree enables you to spend as much time on Creative Writing as you do on English Literature. Our programme offers you a rigorous and inspiring study of Literature while Creative Writing workshops, lectures and readings help you develop your own writing.

In addition to the core English Literature modules, your degree includes an Introduction to Creative Writing in the first year, an intermediary workshop in the second year, and an advanced workshop in the final year. You can also choose special units on Short Fiction, Poetry Writing, Narrative and New Media, Creative Non-Fiction, and more. All Creative Writing modules are taught by published authors, many of them prize-winning. In your final term of each year, you will study both collaboratively and independently to complete a portfolio to be submitted for assessment.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

Many of our graduates have gone on to successful postgraduate study and careers in professional fields such as publishing, journalism, writing, television and the media, teaching, and librarianship.

Our Creative Writing graduates have published their own stories, novels, and poems with major publishers and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio. The transferable skills you gain on this degree – communication, self-expression, research and critical understanding – also open up a wide range of business and public-sector roles in areas such as marketing, advertising, law, social work and professional services. A sizeable proportion of our graduates take up employment overseas. Other graduates go onto further study, not only in English and Creative Writing, but also in Journalism, Publishing, Law, Public Relations and Business. Recent graduates have gone on to train as speech therapists, teachers of English in the UK and overseas, computer programmers and consultants, videogame storywriters, bankers, chartered accountants, personnel managers and social workers.


Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level English Literature or A level English Language and Literature grade A

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Poetry
  • New Media
  • English Literature
  • World Literature
  • British Romanticism
  • Literature

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 Literature
    • Introduction to Creative Writing

Optional

    • World Literature
Year 2

Core

    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

    • 18th Century Literature
    • American Literature to 1900
    • British Romanticism
    • Creative Non-Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • Literature, Film, and Media
    • Poetry: Genre and Practice
    • Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
    • Short Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • Victorian Literature
    • Writing for the stage
    • Writing place and landscape
Year 3

Core

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

Optional

    • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
    • Advanced Short Story: Form and Practice
    • African Literature
    • Between the Acts
    • Bible and Literature
    • Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
    • Contemporary Literature in English
    • Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures
    • Creative Non-Fiction II
    • Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries: Work Placement
    • Dissertation Unit
    • Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea
    • Elizabethan Embodiment
    • England and Englishness
    • Literary Film Adaptations, Hollywood 1939
    • Literature and Religion at the Fin de Siecle
    • Literature and the Visual Arts
    • Longer Fiction: Skills and Techniques for Approaching a Novel
    • Modernism towards Postmodernism
    • Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
    • Narrative and New Media
    • Other Victorians
    • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
    • Poetry and Experiment
    • Premodern Gothic
    • Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
    • Representing Palestine: Creative Constructions of a Nation
    • Ruskin on Art, Architecture and Society
    • Schools Volunteering Project
    • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Seeing Triple: Expansive American Fiction
    • Shakespeare
    • The Byron-Shelley Circle
    • The Impostor Novel: Impersonators and Charlatans in Modern Fiction
    • The Literature of Sleep
    • The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
    • Utopias and Utopianism
    • Victorian Autobiography
    • Victorian Gothic
    • Victorian Popular Fiction
    • Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
    • Women Writers of Britain and America
    • Writing in Lancaster Castle
    • 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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