- UCAS course code
- Q3W8
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
BA English Literature with Creative Writing
Develop your writing skills alongside the study of literature past and present.
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Duration: 3 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: Q3W8 / Institution code: M20
- Typical A-level offer: AAA including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: ABB including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: ABC including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall with 6,6,6 at HL including specific subjects
Fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £26,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Scholarships/sponsorships
- Find out more from student finance
- Eligible UK students can apply for bursaries and scholarships
- Funding for EU and international students is on our country-specific pages
- Many students work part-time or complete a student internship
Course unit details:
Creative Writing Final Project
| Unit code | ENGL37712 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 20 |
| Unit level | Level 3 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This course gives Creative Writing pathway students the opportunity to formulate and develop an extended creative project in either poetry or prose. They are also required to produce an annotated bibliography, situating their project’s themes and techniques in relation to work by other writers, relevant scholarship, and essays on craft.
Aims
The aims of this course are:
To enable students to develop an extended creative project, working independently with support from a supervisor;
To enable students to develop an understanding of creative practice as research, and to meet the demands of producing an extended piece of fiction / collection of poems;
To develop the personal skills involved in defining, undertaking and completing a project
To encourage students to situate their creative work in relation to other writers, or to relevant critical or theoretical concerns;
To develop students' writing skills by encouraging them to think about the demands of an extended piece of written work.
Teaching and learning methods
Three personal supervision meetings during Semester 2, and a workshop.
Knowledge and understanding
Independence and resourcefulness in ability to formulate and develop a creative project based on a student’s own interests;
The ability to identify and utilize relevant material, whether creative and critical, in relation to that project;
The formal and intellectual skills requisite to the production of an extended piece of work;
An ability to undertake and complete an extended individual project.
Intellectual skills
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- critically evaluate literary and critical sources in relation to their own topic;
- reflect on and articulate the significance of the techniques and formal choices deployed in the creative work.
Practical skills
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- plan and execute independent creative research;
- make good use of library, electronic, and online resources pertaining to their project.
Transferable skills and personal qualities
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
-retrieve, sift, organise, synthesise and critically evaluate material from a range of different sources, including library, electronic, and online resources;
- manage time effectively by scheduling tasks in order of importance.
Employability skills
- Other
- This course enhances student employability by giving students a range of transferable skills. These include: good written communication skills; time management skills through the completion of an independent creative project; articulacy and presentation skills.
Assessment methods
Assessment task | Weighting within unit (if summative) |
Annotated Bibliography | 15% |
Creative Project, with Commentary | 85% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method – | Formative or Summative |
Numerical grade and written comments on annotated bibliography within 15 working days | Formative and Summative |
Formative feedback in supervisions | Formative |
Numerical grade and written comments on final project within 15 working days | Formative and Summative |
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Project supervision | 3 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 197 |