English and Creative Writing degree

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English and Creative Writing degree

The English and Creative Writing degree is an exciting degree offered by the English Literature and Creative Writing department. The English and Creative Writing degree is an integrated and self-contained single honours programme.  The scheme is taught by practicing writers and aims to develop both your creative and your critical skills.  The English and Creative Writing degree will help you to develop your range and capabilities as a writer, and enable you to work confidently in a variety of forms and genres.  It will also help you to develop a reflective writing practice which is informed by a knowledge of past and present writing in a variety of forms and genres; an understanding of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read; and an awareness of the range and variety of approaches to literary study and to the practice of writing.

English and Creative Writing degree structure

English and Creative Writing Year 1

In your first year you will take amongst others, three core modules, which introduce you to the fundamentals of English and Creative Writing at university level:

• Ways with Words:  designed to introduce you to different kinds of writing practice, including genres of poetry, prose fiction and life-writing;
• Encountering Texts: focuses on a range of different approaches to reading and writing about literary texts of different periods;
• Aspects of Genre: exploring the genres of poetry, drama and the novel through detailed study of texts from different periods.

English and Creative Writing degree Years 2 and 3

All English and Creative Writing degree students next take a common core, to which they add writing options.  The core consists of: The Set Forms, Reading Theory/Reading Texts (1), Textual interventions and the final year Writing Project, which will give you an opportunity to engage with an extended piece of your own writing in any form including a longer piece of fiction, a collection of poems or short stories, or a dramatic text. In addition you will take four core modules organised on a historical basis: Medieval and Renaissance Writing, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Writing, Nineteenth-Century Writing and Twentieth-Century Writing.

Louise Jenkins BA English Literature and Creative Writing Oxfordshire

I chose to study at Aberystwyth because of the course and its location by the sea. It was very, easy to settle into studying. I’ve lived in town for the whole three years and you just feel like you’re part of a community straight away, everyone’s so friendly, and it’s crazy on Saturday! The department’s pretty good. The tutors are good and if you have any questions they have office hours you can go visit them in.

The Arts Centre is really good, they show more arty films as well as the more recent ones. And they have special themed weeks, for example every two weeks they show horror films. At Aberystwyth it is laid back and comfortable and there’s no pressure. The social life is really good. I think it has 52 pubs, which is crazy. I haven’t been to all of them! There are two clubs in town which are good, and everyone tends to go to the same place, so you make friends just by going out.

I would definitely recommend Aberystwyth to others, especially if you’re from the city and you want something completely different. It’s the place to come. You do feel far away from home, but that’s a good thing!