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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Greenwich (Greenwich Campus)
Sandwich
Sep 2026
4 Year
With our creative writing and English literature degree, you'll explore great literary works and be inspired to find your own creative voice.Our degree in creative writing and English literature explores literature, drama, poetry, fiction, visual art and theatre, mostly from 1800 onwards. You will examine the works themselves and the social and historical contexts in which they were written. The creative writing aspects of the course complement this, enabling you to focus on writing fiction, poetry, performance writing, playwriting, screenwriting and journalism.Popular career options for our creative writing and English literature graduates include professional writing, research, teaching, journalism, publishing and arts administration. You can continue your studies or move into areas such as teaching with one of our postgraduate degrees
This module aims: To equip the student with broad-based writing skills of benefit to creative writing and media students, particularly those who are aiming to be writers and those for whom writing is a key component of their practice; To teach the student how to write for a variety of media contexts, including news and features writing, travel writing and digital journalism; To demonstrate to the student that writing and reading skills need intensive practice in order to develop key literacy skills; To explore a number of practice-based areas of writing, including an essential writing tool kit: self reflective study/ independent writing & reading/ exploring ideas around the self and autobiography, histories of writing and approaches to political writing.
The course will enable students to understand the notion of literary tradition by familiarisation with a wide range of literary work from different genres. Students will be encouraged to understand literary works as aspects of a wider culture and to develop close reading skills. The course will develop students written and oral communications skills and enhance students? essay writing and examination abilities.
The course is designed to: introduce students to a range of different forms and styles of contemporary creative prose and poetry; to encourage them to work with and experiment in those forms in order to develop their own poetic styles and voices. To facilitate this, students will be expected to comment on and analyze textual material as well as write and produce texts of their own; provide students with the opportunity to explore and write in different forms and styles of poetry and creative prose through the writing workshop; develop the range of stylistic and technical skills (grammar, punctuation, formatting of dialogue, use of poetic form etc.) necessary for such types of writing; introduce students to a variety of modern critical and theoretical writing contexts, and to get them to think about their own writing practice within the contemporary context; encourage students to undertake associated research and preparatory work necessary to produce texts and to enable them to practise technical and research skills in the process of writing creatively; allow the students to develop an analytical approach to their own writing process and practice, through the critical commentary.
The course is designed to introduce students to the processes of writing for the stage and writing for the screen. To facilitate this, students will be expected to produce writing of their own and comment on and analyse a wide range of performance and screen writing material. Students will be introduced to the creative and technical skills necessary for effective stage and screen writing. They will explore the art and craft of writing for both forms and be encouraged to develop their own dramatic and cinematic style. Students will be introduced to the principles of drama, the differences of writing for the stage and screen and the specifics of writing a short play and short film, exploring aspects of the form such as conflict, action, characterisation, dialogue, structure, scene setting and style. Students will also be introduced to critical review writing and will be expected to write critical and comparative reviews of live and published plays in order to develop an engaged and analytical approach to the form, as well as their own writing process and practice.
Students will study only optional modules.
LLT Sandwich Placement
The LLT sandwich placement aims to help students synthesise knowledge and skills acquired during the first two years of the degree programme and apply them appropriately in a working environment under the supervision of an employer. It provides students with the opportunity to manage and enhance the development of their own personal skills, acquire and develop a range of skills such as communication skills, professional awareness, technological skills, employability skills, and have the opportunity to apply them in a work environment. It also aims to provide students with an opportunity to work supervised and unsupervised with an appreciation of work ethics.
The aim of Creative Projects is to enable Creative Writing students to spend their final undergraduate year specializing in their preferred genre (of poetry, prose, or play/screen writing). Students undertake an extended period of independent research (guided by lecturers) in a subject area / style that interests them. They are then asked to produce output of a significant length of publishable quality in their chosen genre. The course investigates a range of writing practices for the 21st Century through practical writing workshops and self-directed academic study. It examines current discourses around literary form, e.g. the interface between narrative and non-narrative, and other contemporary experimental practices in both writing and theory. The course pays particular attention to the feedback loop between literature and selfhood, and how these are informed by political and philosophic issues such as gender, race and society. The course is designed to familiarize students with a range of contemporary writing practices and to encourage students to investigate new approaches in their own practice, and to be able to contextualize their writing within contemporary theoretical and literary discourses.
On completing this course successfully your knowledge and understanding of how the literary publishing industries have developed and are developing in specific areas will be enhanced; you will have investigated the ways the cultural industries have created and create today different audiences; you will have critically appraised the possibilities of publishing forms and marketing strategies; your analytic, written and oral communication skills will have improved.
112 Grades/points required
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Accommodation- Standard (shared bathroom) 39 weeks - 6,805.50 (Total charge)
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