Course Overview

Explore your passion for English Literature and writing with this innovative course. You’ll specialise in creative writing or contemporary literature.

These two pathways bring together creative and critical approaches to literature in new and imaginative ways. You’ll examine current developments and critical issues on a course that provides an international and cross-cultural outlook.

Taught by a team with an international reputation for their research in diverse areas, ranging from Caribbean culture to crime novels to apocalyptic fiction, this course will expose you to new ideas and will encourage you to question them. Across both shared and specialist modules and in undertaking a major project you’ll develop skills of critical sophistication and argumentation and independence-of-mind, project development, and reflection.

General Eligibility

Applicants should either have at least a second class honors degree in the cognate subjects of Humanities, Social Sciences, Law or Human Geography, at least a second class honors degree in a non-cognate subject supported by evidence of an aptitude for the subject applied for, or have equivalent experience or training, normally from within the work environment.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.0 with no skills below 5.5, or an equivalent qualification.