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BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing

University of Portsmouth ( Navitas ), United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Take your love of literature to a higher level and refine your writing skills with academic rigour on our English and Creative Writing degree course.

Explore literature through an academic lens in theory and in practice, enhancing your understanding of each through participation in the other.

You'll learn to analyse literature as a critic, historian and linguist, and from the perspective of future creators, storytellers, playwrights and poets – all of which will transform your writing skills. Develop techniques for producing short stories, poetry and plays, and learn to dissect, critique and perform your own writing.

By the end of your degree, you’ll open up professional career paths and postgraduate routes eager for writing and literary expertise, including editing and publishing, teaching, and broadcasting.

General Eligibility

  • A levels – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112-128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, including 32 points from A level English

  • International Baccalaureate – 26

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Placement year

On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry.

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

2 Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

  • Body Politics

  • Telling Tales

  • Tips, Tricks, Techniques

  • True Stories

  • The Short Story: Murder, Madness and Experimentation

3 Year 2

Core Module:

  • Literary Prizes and Public Acclaim

Optional Modules:

  • Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange

  • Finding Form - Fiction

  • Finding Form - Nonfiction

  • Creative Writing For Film

  • Crime Writing

  • Dystopian and Apocalyptic Environments: Ecocrisis in the Literary Imagination

  • Women's Writing in the Americas

  • Creative Writing and Critical Thinking

  • Research in Practice

  • Bloody Shakespeare: the Politics and Poetics of Violence

  • Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice

  • Finding Form - Speculative Fiction

  • Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)

  • Press and Public Relations

  • Professional Experience

  • Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature

  • Space, Place and Being

  • Student Enterprise

4 Year 3

Core Modules:

  • English Literature Dissertation

  • Creative Writing Dissertation

Optional Modules:

  • Advanced Screenwriting

  • Fact and Fiction

  • Fan Fiction

  • Holocaust Literatures

  • US Masculinities

  • Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture

  • Magical Realism

  • Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction

  • Travel Writing: Global and Local Engagements

  • Writing Project (With Publishing)

Language Requirement

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0(with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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