English Literature and Creative Writing (Placement Year) (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Throughout this English Literature and Creative Writing (Placement Year) (Hons) course from Lancaster University  course from Lancaster University you will also have the chance to explore texts from ancient civilisations to the present day studying the great names in literature, as well as voices that have been forgotten or overlooked.

We believe that reading is not passive but active. It is something that acts upon both the texts that we read and the world in which we live; and neither those texts nor the world is left the same. We are pioneers in experimental or creative forms of literary criticism as well as encouraging the study of established forms of literary scholarship, such as archival work, historicism, close reading, and literary theory. We support our students to dive deep, and experience literature in new and immersive ways.

Career opportunities:

Our creative writing graduates have gone on to publish their own stories, novels, videogames, graphic novels, and poems with major publishers, and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio.

Our graduates also go on to careers in traditional fields such as publishing, journalism and arts management or becoming an editor, copywriter or librarian. Careers such as teaching, law and social work are open to English and Creative Writing graduates via postgraduate programmes.

New and exciting opportunities are emerging here in the creative and cultural industries such as museums, heritage and the arts, literary tourism, podcasting, game-writing, blogging, film, television, and social media. Others have gone on to careers in fields such as:

• Publishing

• Journalism

• Game-writing

• Copy-writing

• Social media

• Television and the media

• Teaching

• Librarianship

• Art management