English Literature and Creative Writing
University of Kent
UCAS Code: Q326 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Kent
UCAS Code: Q326 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
If we make you an offer, you will need to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
30 points in the IB Diploma or 120 UCAS Tariff points
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
The University will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and National Extended Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF; OCR) on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us for further advice on your individual circumstances. A typical offer would be to achieve Distinction, Merit, Merit
Scottish Highers qualifications are considered on an individual basis.
T Level
M-Pass (C and above)
UCAS Tariff
About this course
**English Literature and Creative Writing**
Explore the rich traditions of literature while developing your talents as a writer, editor and publisher in our unique project-based degree course. Covering British, Irish, American, Indigenous, Postcolonial and World literatures, English Literature and Creative Writing at Kent is truly global, cutting edge, creative, interactive, and vibrant.
Creativity is at the heart of everything we do within this course. You have the opportunity to shape your degree according to your interests; you might make a documentary film, script a video game, assemble a journal, compose a collection of poetry, write a novella or plan and pitch an exhibition.
Our course covers a variety of genres, so you can study something you already love or develop a new passion for a different genre. Whether you love Jane Austen or William Shakespeare, dystopian fiction, the gothic or modern and contemporary poetry, we specialise in the literature you are passionate about.
You can also take this course as single honours BA (Hons) English Literature.
**Your future**
Whether you have a specific career in mind or haven’t thought beyond university, we can help you plan for success. At Kent, we prepare you for your creative and professional life. We offer you rigorous academic training in all aspects of literary history, critical theory and creative writing.
You’ll develop the creative competence you need to succeed in any field you’d like to explore. By offering you a varied range of assessments, we’ll help you to hone the digital skills, critical thinking, communication and information-processing skills that are essential in the 21st-century job market.
Our courses embed employability at every turn with modules that focus on careers in growing and emerging sectors; we’ll demonstrate how your degree can give you options in the creative industries and beyond.
**Location**
Our city, your time.
It has never been a better time to study in Canterbury. Our high student population creates a vibrant, diverse and student-friendly atmosphere.
We are a hub of exciting new ideas emerging from a stunning historic city - join us and get involved!
Modules
The following modules are what students typically study, but this may change year to year in response to new developments and innovations.
Stage 1:
Compulsory modules currently include the following:
Changing Literatures;
Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures;
Adventures in Criticism;
Romantic Ecologies: Literature, Environment and Climate Crisis;
Creative and Critical Conversations.
Optional modules may include the following:
Class: Narratives of Exclusion and Belonging;
American Power, American Protest.
Stage 2:
Compulsory modules currently include the following:
Shakespeare: Before and After;
World Literatures in English;
Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action.
Optional modules may include the following:
American Modernities: US Literature 1930 to the Present;
Becoming America: From Poe to The Great Gatsby;
Encounters with the Premodern, 1350 - 1700;
Modernism;
Reading Victorian Literature;
The Contemporary;
When Novels Were Novel: Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Stage 3:
Compulsory modules currently include the following:
The Project.
Optional modules may include the following:
A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe;
American Crime Fiction;
Animals, Humans, Writing;
The Brontes in Context;
Centres and Edges: Modernist and Postcolonial Quest Literature;
Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives;
The End of Empire: Post-Imperial Writing in Britain;
Foundations of Activism;
Global Capitalism and the Novel;
Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945-2015;
Magic, Marvels and Monsters in Medieval Literature;
Marlowe vs Shakespeare;
Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health;
Places, Journeys, Borders;
Queer Literature;
Representing World War Two;
#ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics;
The End of the World;
The Gothic: Origins and Exhumations;
The Love Poem: Romantic Language from Thomas Wyatt to Taylor Swift;
The New Woman: First Wave Feminism and Women's Writing, 1880-1920;
The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction;
Virginia Woolf and the Novel.
Extra funding
Kent offers generous financial support schemes to assist eligible undergraduate students during their studies. See our funding page for more details - https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/fees-and-funding
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Top job areas of graduates
The jobs market for this subject - which includes creative writing and scriptwriting courses - is not currently one of the strongest, so unemployment rates are currently looking quite high overall, with salaries on the lower side. But nevertheless, most graduates get jobs quickly. Graduates often go into careers as authors and writers and are also found in other roles where the ability to write well is prized, such as journalism, translation, teaching and advertising and in web content. Be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common is common in the arts, as are what is termed 'portfolio careers', having several part-time jobs or commissions at once - although graduates from this subject were a little more likely than many other creative arts graduates to be in conventional full time permanent contracts, so that might be worth bearing in mind.
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Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
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The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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