Your English and creative writing course is designed to equip you with the technical abilities and the confidence you need to earn your living as a modern writer. Throughout this joint honours degree, we aim to develop your cultural knowledge and communication skills, while giving you the support and space to develop your own creative specialism.

Although the course emphasises the use of creative writing techniques within broadcast, web and print media, the critical and analytical skills you develop will be transferable to many roles outside these fields.

Employers in the creative industries look for graduates who both know their theory and have the practical skills to fulfil briefs. On this English writing course, we give you the opportunity to gain these capabilities. Through a blend of regular seminars, media debates and screenwriting workshops, you will develop:

• a critically informed understanding of the essential works of English literature
• a critical approach to reading and writing
• your ability to structure complex arguments
• your understanding of the creative writing process and how to apply it to traditional and digital media
• a portfolio that demonstrates your capabilities

There is also the opportunity for you to take a work placement, on which you will gain valuable experience in a professional setting and make contacts for the future. You can choose a placement that is related to your creative specialism or to your main literary interests. Many of our students choose placements in organisations related to film, radio or publishing.

Once you graduate with your English and creative writing degree, you may go on to find work in:

• film and television
• publishing
• journalism
• radio broadcasting
• research
• new media