English Literature, Creative Writing and Practice (Placement Year) : BA Hons : QW39

Lancaster University

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 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.
During the placement year you will remain a Lancaster University student which means that you will still be eligible for a student loan, have access to facilities such as the library and receive discounts on transport and council tax. Your tuition fee will be reduced to 20% during the placement year.

The placement will enhance your understanding of the connections between theory and practice and this will benefit your final year of study. This is an exciting opportunity to build up experience and transferable skills, as well as to make contacts with potential employers which will place you a step ahead in the graduate recruitment market.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

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.

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.

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
  • English Literature
  • World Literature
  • British Romanticism
  • Literature
  • Victorian 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
    • Placement Preparation

Optional

    • World Literature
Year 2

Core

    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • The Theory and Practice of Criticism
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • 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
    • Work Based Learning Placement

Optional

    • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
    • Advanced Short Story: Form and Practice
    • Between the Acts
    • Bible and Literature
    • Contemporary Literature in English
    • Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures
    • Creative Non-Fiction II
    • Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries: Work Placement
    • Dissertation Unit
    • Jane Austen
    • 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
    • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
    • Poetry and Experiment
    • Premodern Gothic
    • Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
    • Schools Volunteering Project
    • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Shakespeare
    • The Break-Through Book: Five Twentieth-century Poets
    • The Byron-Shelley Circle
    • Thinking Through Twenty-First Century World Literature and Theory
    • Utopias and Utopianism
    • Victorian Gothic
    • Women Writers of Britain and America
    • 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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