English and Creative Writing (with placement year)

Our English and Creative Writing degree allows students to focus on creating their own texts, alongside studying the work of other writers.

This degree offers great flexibility through its mixture of optional and compulsory modules in creative writing, literary history and the study of language, allowing you to tailor the course to suit your interests. Just as our academic staff are recognised for their expertise in areas such as contemporary poetry and theory, playwriting, culture and communication, and literature, your creative writing lecturers are practitioners in poetry, fiction and life-writing. Their knowledge of these subject areas and enthusiasm for their research and teaching make this a vibrant and supportive place for you to study, a place where you can learn the many different skills you will need, including transferable skills for your future employment.

The curriculum for our English and Creative Writing degree offers you the freedom to tailor the course to your interests - covering creative writing, literature and language within a broad range of fields and approaches, providing a stimulating environment for your degree work. You will have the opportunity to study all of the major genres of creative writing (poetry and prose), and will be encouraged to reflect analytically and critically on their developing practice as writers. You will also be required to undertake a major piece of creative writing as part of your dissertation in your final year.

For a full list of areas studied, see the 'What You'll Study' section of the course page on our website.

Our English and Creative Writing course is assessed solely through coursework, using various assessment methods in order to encourage students to develop a broad set of skills and competencies.

Methods of assessment include: writing poetry and fiction, reflective work and literary essays, seminar participation, online in-class tests, annotated bibliographies, performance projects, in-class presentations, research projects, workbooks/log books, group work and peer assessments and dissertation. Exposure to a range of written and oral methods of communication builds effective and professional skill-sets for maximum employability.