English and Creative Writing and Journalism, Media and Communication

• The emphasis is on helping you develop a range of applicable skills to grow your future career, including textual analysis and interpretation.

• With us, you can study everything from poetry, the novel and drama (stage, screen and radio). In addition, we offer the opportunity to use creative writing skills as part of your approach to literary criticism.

• The chance to work with award-winning scholars and creative writers.

• We have a reputation for getting to know students as individuals.

• We offer a wide range of options, many of them unique in the UK, reflecting our staff interests and expertise.

• Our approach to the English & Creative writing course is innovative, modern and friendly, giving you a comprehensive understanding of English literature as a core basis for your creative work.

• Pursuing Journalism, Media & Communication will engage you in useful learning in a broad professional context, which includes a critical understanding of the media industry, while acquiring technical and professional skills in journalism, communication, information design and management, and using them in the dynamic media market of Glasgow and beyond.

• Employers place great value on our graduates' ability to think critically and to communicate clearly.

Ranked 1st in Scotland for English (The Times/Sunday Times University Ranking 2024); Ranked 1st in the UK for Communication & Media Studies (The Times/Sunday Times University Ranking 2024).

This course is part of our flexible BA Humanities and Social Science Degree programme. With our BA (Honours) degree you can choose from subjects in Humanities, Social Sciences and Business, with two of your three subject choices taught by the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.

The BA degree is a three year course and the Honours degree is normally a four year course. This allows you to try new subjects, develop your own ideas, develop a broad range of knowledge and enhance your employability.

You should only enter one of the UCAS codes on your application form. Acceptance on one of these subject codes will enable you to study any combination of subjects. Only one application will be considered. This is lifted from page 50 of the prospectus.

https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/undergraduate/flexiblebadegree/

Every one of our flexible BA options gives students the chance to gain valuable professional experience as part of a credit-bearing work placement class in their third or fourth year. Learn more about placements- https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/undergraduate/placements/

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS