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BA (Hons) English Language & Creative Writing

University of Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

On our English Language and Creative Writing course you’ll develop the skills and techniques you need to write in a whole range of genres. You’ll also study the history, use and application of English.

On this course we’ll help you to enhance your skills as a creative writer and gain experience of writing in a wide range of different styles and genres.

You’ll develop the skills and techniques you need to create new works in everything from science fiction and fantasy to fairy tales, horror, crime, and fiction for children and young adults. Along the way you’ll produce a variety of short stories, poetry, play scripts and more.

Our modules enable you to delve beneath the surface of language to explore the connections between sound and meaning, and understand how English has developed over time.

General Eligibility

  • UCAS: 104-112 points at A2

  • BTEC Extended Diploma: DMM

  • BTEC Diploma: D*D-D*D*

  • Pass Access Course: 104-112 points

  • International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 104-112 points from Higher Level subjects

  • T Level: M

  • IELTS: 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5

  • GCSEs: 5 at grade C/4 including Maths and English

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Writing Identity

  • Story Shapes: Drama, Structure & Plot

  • Meaning in Interaction

  • ELSIE (English Language Studies Initiative for Employability)

  • Sounds and Structures of English

Optional modules

  • Literary Landscapes

  • Language Variation in Society

  • Language, Gender and Identity

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules:

  • Writing Adaptations

  • Reading and Writing the Short Story

  • Language and Literature

  • Academic Writing and Graduate Development

Optional modules:

  • Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults

  • Reading and Writing Fairy Tales

  • Sociolinguistics

  • Framing the News

  • Language, Mind and Brain

  • Metaphor and Meaning

  • History of English

  • Approaches to Syntax

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules:

  • The Creative Writing Dissertation

  • Experimental Fiction

  • English Language & Linguistics dissertation

Optional modules:

  • Life Writing

  • Otherworlds: Reading and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • British Children's Literature

  • Literature into Film

  • Language and Power

  • Forensic Linguistics

  • Clinical Linguistics and Language Pathology

  • English Phonology

  • English Syntax

  • World Grammars: contrastive linguistics

  • Discourse, Argumentation, Rhetoric

  • English in Education

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69
IELTS: Score of 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5

Ready to get started?

For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

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