Program Overview

This course is ideal if you want to study creative writing alongside English literature and language.

• Sharpen your writing skills, free your imagination, let your creative juices flow and be inspired in the company of poets, playwrights, publishers, screenwriters and novelists.
• Embark on a career as a professional writer, or to go into more traditional careers linked to English studies such as marketing, publishing or teaching.

Why you should study this course

Studying English is viewed as a traditional subject with a long history of providing fantastic academic credentials.

• This course combines stylistics, language and literary theory with creative practice, to help you understand the theories behind writing, to understand your writing style and voice, and to improve your understanding of how language is used in society. It also offers a vocational element.
• Our course combines humanities with creative freedom, allowing you to explore emerging genres such as games narratives and graphic storytelling. It has innovative, open and participatory content that includes digital streamed performances and online workshops pitched at schools.
• This course aims to have global student collaborations focusing on intercultural narration, and includes digital entrepreneurship, which is the monetising of creative work via YouTube and social media, meaning that students work towards publication-ready outputs.
• We have significant links with a wide variety of employers and media practitioners, such as Writing West Midlands and Theatre Absolute, many of whom offer professional experience opportunities2.
• There are opportunities to participate in an exciting range of educational and cultural field trips2, for example, to view modern adaptations of Shakespeare’s work at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon. There may be some additional costs for optional trips and opportunities, and such trips may also be subject to availability.