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Graduates are well prepared to work as editors and writers in publishing houses or freelance writers for the creative industries. Other potential career paths include journalism, media and communication, retail management, arts administration, civil service, education, performing arts and the law.
For those interested in extending their studies, we offer four MA degrees: in English, creative writing, creative writing (online) and creative writing and wellbeing (online).
Alongside studying topics such as romantic and Victorian literature, modernism, postmodernism and postcolonial writing, you can practise your creativity in several forms, contexts and genres. You gain a solid understanding of creative-critical approaches and develop personal and professional skills greatly valued by employers.
A typical offer is 96-112 tariff points from at least two A, T, or equivalent levels.
20 Hours of work permit weekly for international students.
Core modules
Creative Writing Lab: Writing and Audience
Creative Writing Lab: Writing for Social Change
Critical Practice
Practising Poetry
Romantics to Realism
Victorian Horizons: Writing 1837–1901
Challenging Boundaries: Postmodern and Postcolonial Writing
Make it New: The Age of Modernism
Representation and Cultural Identity: Student Conference
and three optional modules
Creative Writing Lab: Experimental Writing
Creative Writing Lab: Writing and Wellbeing
Employability and Work-Related Learning
Focus on Fiction
Speculative Writing: Histories, Anxieties, and Fantasies
Words Matter: A Celebration of English and Creative Writing
Creative Writing Lab: Group Facilitation
Doing Research
and either
Creative Writing Project
or
English Studies Dissertation
and two optional modules
Deception and Detection from the 19th Century to the Present
Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in Literature and Culture
Genres, Movements, Histories
Writing Popular Culture
The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).
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