English Literature with Creative Writing | University of Leeds

Course summary

This course teaches you to read like a writer.

Develop your creativity and sharpen your critical abilities, acquiring valuable skills as both a reader and a writer. You’ll produce creative work across various genres, such as fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. You may also choose modules in specialist genres such as travel and journalistic writing or science fiction, fantasy and horror.

You'll learn how writers of the past and the present have used words and literary forms to express their ideas and engage with their times’ social and cultural issues.

You’ll encounter historical and modern texts in English from around the globe, which explore themes relevant to how we live today, including race and ethnicity, gender, climate change and nature, social class, disability and wellbeing.

Learn how to shape language to convey your ideas and experience, craft your writing with other students, and build an individual portfolio of work that will set you on track for a creative or cultural industries career.

How to apply

Application codes

Course code:: Q3W8
Institution code:: L23

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