Course Overview
Our BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English course allows you to learn, and then specialize in, a wide range of creative writing disciplines and critical approaches to literature. As you develop your creative voice and find your style, you’ll develop your ability to critically engage with a broad range of literature and critical theory from the Renaissance through to the present day. You’ll learn from our team of practicing and published poets, short story writers, novelists, dramatists, and screenwriters, all of whom have extensive experience in the industry.
You’ll also work with experienced English Literature academics who use the latest research and pedagogical techniques in their teaching to ensure you have access to the latest creative developments and critical debates in fiction, poetry, and dramatic work.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 96-112 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBB-CCC
- Access to HE Diploma- Pass with 12 level 3 credits worth of English units at Merit.
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Careers
Our Creative Writing and English graduates are highly valued by employers for their problem solving and exceptional communication skills and often continue into a variety of diverse careers. The key to a Creative Writing and English Literature degree is communication, and at Chichester we focus on your abilities in written and spoken expression.
Career paths include:
- Novelist
- Publishing
- Teaching
- Journalism
- Copywriting
- Marketing
Course Content
- Creating Characters
- The Writer’s Notebook
- Literature Now: Reading and Writing the Present Moment
- Introduction to Writing Poetry
- Introduction to Writing Short Fiction
- Investigating Interpretation: Ideas in literature from Marx to Barthes
- Subverting the Subject: Ideas in Literature from Barthes to Butler
- Contemporary Fiction: War, Women, and the World – Elizabeth Bowen to Alison MacLeod
- Creative Writing: Poetry, Form and Freedom
- Poetry: 1300 to the Present
- Renaissance to Restoration
- Fiction for Children
- Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Place
- Agents of Change: Women’s Writing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Writing for the Screen
- Prose Fiction: The Dynamics of Change
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci-Fi and Beyond
- Romantics, Rebels, Reactionaries
- Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- Dissertation in English Literature
- Unconscious Desires: Psychoanalysis and Culture from Freud to Žižek
- Gothic, Romanticism and Women’s Writing: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austin
- Writing the Novel
- Making it Strange: Writing the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Modern Gothic Novel
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Digital Writing: Writing for the Community of Strangers
- The Cultural History of Death
- British Cultural Wars
- Writing Flash Fiction
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism
- Contemporary Short Fiction: Writing the Here and Now
- European Literary Legacies: Writing the City
