English Literature with Creative Writing - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Key facts

While at English Literature with Creative Writing - Placement Year (Hons) you’ll be taught Creative Writing modules by published authors who share their expertise through workshops that focus closely on your own writing and lectures that address general issues of effective writing and professional development

Placement Year

You will have the opportunity to spend Year 3 on a placement with a public, private or voluntary organisation in the UK or overseas.  This experience should boost your employment prospects and help you to decide on your career direction and the kind of organisation in which you want to work once you graduate. You will be doing a real, responsible job – with all the satisfaction that brings.

One of the aims of the placement year is to enhance your understanding of the connections between theory and practice which could benefit your final year of study. Placements provide an exciting opportunity to build up experience and transferable skills, as well as to make contacts with potential employers, which can place you a step ahead in the graduate recruitment market.

Career

Previous graduates have gone on to successful postgraduate study and careers in professional fields such as publishing, journalism, writing, television and the media, teaching, and librarianship, with some taking up employment overseas. 

Creative Writing graduates have published their own stories, novels, and poems with major publishers and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio.

The transferable skills you have the opportunity to develop on this degree – communication, self-expression, research and critical understanding – also open up a wide range of business and public-sector roles in areas such as marketing, advertising, law, social work and professional services.

Other graduates from Lancaster University's English Literature with Creative Writing (Hons) go on to further study, not only in English and Creative Writing, but also in Journalism, Publishing, Law, Public Relations and Business.