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BA (Hons) Literary Studies with Creative Writing

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Key Details

Levels

Level 6

FT / PT

FT

Location

The Place

Attendance

1-2 days

Duration

3 years

The BA (Hons) Literary Studies with Creative Writing degree offers a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to English literature and creative writing. You will have the opportunity to study and interpret literature from different historical periods and diverse cultural settings and to develop writing skills in several genres including fiction; poetry and life writing. This will develop a wide-range of sophisticated reading and writing skills across literary, creative and non-fiction genres, different formats and contexts.

Whilst this is a full-time course, typically this course generally only requires 1-2 days on campus attendance, supported by self-directed study. This means you can continue to work alongside your studies and balance other commitments.

Course Information


You will need to have achieved 112 UCAS tariff points (or above) and an Access to HE Diploma

GCSE English and Maths at grade C/4 or above.

Applicants who do not hold these qualifications may be considered on an individual basis based upon their overall application and the course applied for.


The BA (Hons) Literary Studies with Creative Writing will support you into a progression route to meet your intended career aspirations, such as:

  • Teaching
  • Library Services
  • Museums
  • Heritage
  • Various other roles which require high level communication and writing ability

Modules you may study include:

  • Introduction to Creative Writing 1: Prose
  • Academic and Professional Skills
  • The Critical Toolkit: Theories of Reading and Writing
  • Shakespeare Undone
  • Blood, Bodices and Bastards
  • The Women of Modernism
  • Contemporary Writing
  • Post-war British Fiction: Looking Back in Anger
  • Publishing and Paratexts

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