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English Literature and Creative Writing
Single Majors UCAS Code Typical A-Level Offer
English Literature BA Hons Q300 BA/Englit AAB
English Literature, Creative Writing and Practice BA Hons QW38 BA/ELCWP AAB
English Literature with Creative Writing BA Hons Q3W8 BA/ELCW AAB
Combined Degrees
English Language and Literature BA Hons Q302 BA/EngLL AAB
English Language with Creative Writing BA Hons Q3WV BA/ELCW AAB
English Literature and History BA Hons QV31 BA/EngLHi AAB
English Literature and Linguistics BA Hons QQ13 BA/EngLing AAB
English Literature and Music BA Hons WQ33 BA/EngLMus ABB
English Literature and Philosophy BA Hons QV35 BA/EngLPhi AAB
English Literature and Religious Studies BA Hons QV36 BA/EngLRel ABB
Film Studies and English Literature BA Hons PQ33 BA/FEngL ABB
French Studies and English Literature (4 yrs) BA Hons RQ13 BA/FrEnL ABB
German Studies and English Literature (4 yrs) BA Hons RQ23 BA/GerEnL ABB
Italian Studies and English Literature (4 yrs) BA Hons RQ33 BA/ISEnL ABB
Spanish Studies and English Literature (4 yrs) BA Hons RQ43 BA/SSEnL ABB
Theatre Studies and English Literature BA Hons WQ43 BA/TheaEng AAB
All degrees normally require A-level grade A in English Literature or English Language and Literature or equivalent.
Study abroad exchange opportunities can be arranged with universities in the USA (see page 23).
£1000 scholarships available – see appendix
The Department has been awarded the to the subject. The Department has two
highest possible rating in the last two other degree schemes which combine the TYPICAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
national teaching quality reviews. It also historical study and the active making of
ranks highly each year in National Student literature: English Literature with Creative UCAS Tariff: 320-340 pts
Satisfaction surveys. Writing (Q3W8) and English Literature, IB Diploma: 32-34 pts overall with 16
Creative Writing and Practice (QW38). The from 3 HL subjects
We offer a wide range of courses across the creative writing components are taught by Scottish Highers: ABBBB inc A in
entire spectrum of English studies, including widely published authors in workshops that English
British and American literature, literary focus closely on the students’ own writing. Irish Leaving Cert: Offers will be made
theory, women writers, literature and film, on the basis of 5 or 6 HL subjects
and creative writing. These courses reflect Careers IELTS: 6.5 overall
the many new developments in a Many of our students go on to careers Required subjects: All degrees normally
continually changing subject and allow you traditionally associated with English and require the equivalent of A-level English
to customise your degree scheme to suit creative writing - publishing and the media, Literature or English Language and
your particular interests and future careers. teaching, librarianship - while a number Literature
There is a lively student Literary Society and regularly go on to take higher degrees. Preference: A-levels
drama at the Nuffield Theatre on campus But just as many go into business, Other qualifications: Please see
and the Duke’s Theatre in town. The administration and professional services, appendix
department participates in an annual literary where skills of self expression and the
festival (Litfest) in November. critical understanding of complex CONTACT DETAILS
information are equally valued.
The English Literature degree scheme Email c.sutcliffe@lancaster.ac.uk
(Q300) covers a broad range of English and Web www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/
other literatures and incorporates both Tel +44 (0)1524 592233
traditional and ‘state of the art’ approaches Admissions Mrs Caroline Sutcliffe
Enquiries English Department
County Main
SO, WHAT CAN YOU DO As examples, our recent graduates went on to:- Lancaster University
WITH YOUR DEGREE? Lancaster LA1 4YD
Further Study Industry and Government
• Graduate Diploma in Law, University of • General Secretary, Lancaster University
Chester Student’s Union
• MA Creative Writing, Lancaster University • Assistant Regional Programme Manager,
• MA Broadcast Journalism, University of World Challenge Exhibitions, London
Central Lancashire • Graduate Management Trainee, The
• PGCE Secondary English, University of Co-operative Group, Manchester
Cumbria • Trainee Manager, Threshers, Liverpool
• Trainee Contracts Manager, BAE
Systems, Wharton
• SCAN Editor, Lancaster University
Student’s Union
• PR Account Executive, McCann Erickson
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English Literature and Creative Writing
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/ E
BA Hons English Literature Q300
BA Hons English Literature with Creative Writing Q3W8
BA Hons English Literature, Creative Writing and
Practice QW38
First year
English Literature students take:
English (Introduction to English Literature)
Two other subjects: see page 154.
All English Literature with Creative Writing and English Literature,
Creative Writing and Practice students are required to take Creative
Writing as one of their two other subjects.
Introduction to English Literature
This course combines a thorough grounding in the major periods
and movements of English literature from the sixteenth century to
the present day with cutting-edge approaches to literary study. It
asks questions about the ways we impart literary value, the
relationship between the author and reader, the contexts in which
texts were written, the importance of gender, class, and ethnicity
to the literary text, and other vital debates in contemporary literary
studies.
Second and third years
The course explores major canonical writers, like Shakespeare,
Milton, and T. S. Eliot, alongside contemporary, revisionary works English Literature students build on their first-year work, focusing in
by Seamus Heaney, Angela Carter, and Salman Rushdie. Film more depth on historical periods, genres, issues, and themes. There
adaptations are discussed alongside literary texts and contemporary is ample opportunity to tailor course selection to personal interests.
writers are invited each year to talk about their work, offering a English Literature single honors students (Q300) take six to eight
unique opportunity to study literature as a living entity. units of English Literature over their second and third years. They
may take up to four two half-units in lieu of up to two full units in
Average weekly workload: lectures 2hrs, seminars 1hr (plus their third year. They may take up to two courses as a minor,
private study time), plus work for two other subjects usually one of the subjects studied in the first year. All Q300 students
Assessment: coursework essays 50%, examination 50% take Theory and Practice of Criticism in their second year and write a
Expected contact hours: 9-15hrs per week dissertation (10,000 words) on a subject of their choice in their third year.
Introduction to Creative Writing Over their second and third years, English Literature with Creative
You attend weekly workshops to which you will submit work (on Writing (Q3W8) students take six units of English Literature courses
any subject and in a format of your choice) which you and two units of Creative Writing workshops. English Literature,
subsequently rewrite in the light of the feedback received from Creative Writing and Practice (QW38) students take four units of
other students and tutors. There is opportunity for discussion and English Literature over their second and third years, two units of
practice of specific aspects of writing. There are lectures upon Creative Writing workshops (one each year), and four-half units of
which the workshops build. specialised writing workshops (two each year).
Average weekly workload: lecture 1hr, workshop 2hrs Second-year courses
(fortnightly, plus private study time), plus work for two other Theory and Practice of Criticism (taken by all Q300 students); British
Romanticism; Victorian Literature; American literature to 1900;
subjects
Renaissance to Restoration; Creative Writing Workshop
Assessment: portfolio 100%
Expected contact hours: 9-15hrs per week
Creative Writing half-units (QW38 only)
Poetry; Short Fiction
Third-year courses
Dissertation (taken by all Q300 students; optional/negotiable for
combined majors); Shakespeare; Women Writers; From Decadence
to Modernism, 1890-1945; American Literature from 1900;
Literature and Film; Creative Writing Workshop
Third-year half-unit (one term) courses (Q300 students only)
Ceremony in Shakespeare; 21st-Century Theory; Other Victorians:
On the Boundaries of Non-sense; British and American Crime
Stories; The Byron-Shelley Circle; Victorian Gothic; Literatures of
Identity; the 20th-Century Indian Novel; Utopias and Utopianism;
Poems: Processes, Manuscripts, Texts; Children in Horror Fiction;
Early Modern Outlaws; Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory;
African Literature; Science Fiction in Literature and Film; Film
Adaptations, Hollywood 1939; Schools Volunteering Module
Creative Writing half-units (QW38 only)
Longer Fiction; Creative Non-fiction
Please note, not all half-unit courses run every year and our list of
English Literature half-unit courses is currently being expanded.
Please see our website for up-to-date information.
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