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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Leeds Beckett University-City Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
As part of this course, you’ll: - Examine literatures past and present, and from around the world - Be taught by award-winning writers - Have the chance to work on an extended creative writing project as you collaborate with your peers to produce an anthology and plan a related launch event - Explore a range of literary and writing contexts to develop the ability to respond creatively to the world around you - Join a vibrant creative community of students and lecturers with connections to literary festivals and events in the region - Get the chance to work with our range of industry professionals in the city and beyond
Find out more...We’ll nurture your passion by developing your creative and critical thinking. You’ll benefit from: - Inspired teaching and intellectual debate - Interaction with award-winning authors and playwrights - A rolling programme of media industry professionals, published lecturers and world-renowned researchers
Study in a cultural centreLeeds is the Northern heart of culture and the arts. Your campus sits in the very centre of the city, surrounded by museums, art galleries, theatres, film production companies and recording studios. We work directly with Leeds museums and galleries and many regional events, including Leeds Lit Fest, poetry performance events and the Leeds West Indian Carnival.
Our links with industryOur location has enabled us to develop relationships with employers and cultural industries in the city and across the region. Former students have completed placements in the editorial team at Hallmark Studios, with the Yorkshire Food Guide and with Peepal Tree Press, an internationally renowned publisher based in the city.
Building your future potentialAs a student in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, you’ll be encouraged to think about your future career right from the start of your learning journey. Information and advice about relevant future career options will be built into the first year of your degree. During your second and third years of study, you’ll be able to choose modules with live brief learning challenges (real life projects designed by employers) and work placement opportunities.
Why study the English & Creative Writing course at Leeds Beckett University?- Develop your creative practice - Applied Humanities practical module option - Work with award-winning practising writers and active researchers - Strong and meaningful partnerships with industry and community organisations
This module will support you as you start to work at degree level and develop strategies for the interpretation of contemporary literary texts. You'll engage with a range of post-millennial texts that seek to problematize the contemporary period. Your teaching will focus on literary innovations and ways in which texts interact with techniques, approaches and debates in literary studies today. Your learning will explore a range of critical approaches through a number of set texts to help you develop key skills that will inform your work at degree level. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
This module will enable you to study narrative by examining a series of short stories, introducing key concepts such as genre and subgenre, context, and theory. You'll explore specific ideas about narrative fiction such as reliability, authority, perspective, chronology, and story versus plot. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Gain an introduction to the practices and processes of creative writing. Your studies will draw on examples from literary and digital texts, and you'll begin to develop an understanding of the contexts of their production and reception. You'll begin to use your initiative, creative response and collaborative working in a workshop setting to underpin your creative writing throughout the programme. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
This module will introduce the principles of adaptation from literary text to a range of mediated forms. You'll focus on the study of one key chosen text, and will explore its adaptations to various other literary and media forms. This study will enable you to consider the key principles that underpin textual adaptation, explore the ways in which form impacts the production of a text, analyse the adaptation as an important ingredient in literary production. You'll respond creatively to literary text or selections of texts, by producing your own short adaptations. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Study a wide variety of poetry written in English and gain an understanding of the development of poetry from the Shakespearean period through to contemporary times. You'll be better acquainted with a range of poetry in order to develop your sense of literary history. You'll study critical and theoretical perspectives and interpretive tools to enable you to approach the reading and analysis of poetry with confidence. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Study an extended range of forms that could include dramatic monologues and short scripts. You'll study fundamental theoretical principles and debates such as narrative, voice and object that relate to writing practices, and you'll start to explore and experiment with your own writing. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Develop critical and interpretative skills informed by an understanding of the role theory plays in literary studies. This module will enable you to become more confident and more adventurous in your study of literature. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
You'll choose to complete a dissertation - an extended study on a topic of interest to you - or a sustained creative writing practice project. Whichever option you choose, you'll complete the module over two semesters overseen by a designated tutor. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
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