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BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing

Keele University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

English Literature and Creative Writing at Keele encourages you to explore a wide range of literary works whilst learning about the creative process and compiling your own portfolios of creative writing. Taught by expert lecturers and published poets and novelists, you will develop key skills in reading, writing and critical thinking, and encounter texts that will challenge your views, advance your tastes, and prompt your creativity. You will work to develop your own writing skills and literary voice, and learn to refine your creative work through peer feedback and workshop sessions. Through a range of activities and assessments, our diverse course will equip you with a wide array of attributes that employers are looking for, including problem solving, creativity, emotional intelligence, and digital literacy. You will pursue your passions, grow in confidence, and gain a unique set of transferable skills that will be invaluable for your future career in a variety of sectors.

We are committed to enabling you to tailor your degree. Alongside the compulsory English Literature and Creative Writing modules, you are given the flexibility to choose optional modules which not only align with your literary interests, but also your career aspirations. We enable you to embed an interdisciplinary approach to your studies, by offering you the opportunity to explore modules outside of the English Literature and Creative Writing curriculum, including those from areas such as Film, History, Media, Education and Modern Languages.

General Eligibility

A LEVEL REQUIREMENTS

  • BBC

GCSE REQUIREMENTS

  • English Language / Literature at C (or 4)

BTEC

  • DMM

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Poetry through practice

  • Reading Literature

  • Texts and Contexts

  • Fiction Through Practice

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature

  • Childhood, Policy and Education

  • English for Academic Purposes 4 (EAP 4)

  • Reading Film and Media

  • History, Media, Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture

  • The British and Global Economy

  • Education in Britain:past, present, future

  • Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry

  • Literature as History: Writing the Americas

  • The Early Modern World, 1490-1700

  • Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures

  • Applied Psychology

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Writing Genre and Mode

  • Literature and Social Change

  • Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose

  • Methods and Approaches to Literature

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Romanticisms

  • The Renaissance: Shakespeare and Beyond

  • Transatlantic Modernisms

  • Creative Arts and Humanities in Society

  • Work Placement for Humanities Students

  • Contemporary World Literature

  • Culture and Barbarism: Literature in the Victorian Age

  • 21st-Century Apocalypses

3 Year 3

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Creative Writing: Portfolio - ISP

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Words and Pictures: the Contemporary American Graphic Novel

  • High Culture: Drink, Drugs, and the American Dream

  • Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

  • Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation

  • Dissertation in English - ISP

  • Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students

  • Postcolonial and World Literature in English

  • The Alcohol Question

  • Modernist Manifestos and Magazines

  • Violence and death in Shakespeare's theatre

  • Hitchcock's Queer Cinema

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component or equivalent.

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