English Literature with Creative Writing with a Year Abroad (Hons) University of East Anglia

Overview

You’ll immerse yourself in a thriving community of writers and thinkers. Learning from practicing writers and passionate teachers, you’ll sharpen your ability to sculpt language into stories, scenes, and images. You’ll build worlds, develop your voice and find ways to express yourself. Alongside this, at English Literature with Creative Writing with a Year Abroad (Hons) from University of East Anglia you’ll study literature from around the world, past and present. You’ll discover how writers have expanded literary possibilities, made art out of lived experience and shown us what it means to be human. In doing so, you’ll become a more discerning and attentive reader and writer, ready to make your own mark on the literary world. 

You’ll spend a third of your time on Creative Writing and two thirds on English Literature in your first two years of study. In your third year, you may increase the amount of Creative Writing that you do or focus more on Literature, developing a balance that best suits you.

Year Abroad

This four year version of the course gives you the opportunity to spend the third year of your degree studying with one of UEA's many partner institutions across the globe, which offers teaching in your subject and in English. Destinations range from Japan to Hong Kong, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and Canada and the USA. 

Studying abroad gives you the opportunity to broaden your academic and social horizons, giving you opportunities to develop your confidence and communication skills, while bringing a unique element to your CV that will help you stand out to prospective employers. Availability at our partner institutions does vary from year to year and we always recommend you bring an open mind about your destination preference. You'll also need to meet certain academic progression requirements (scoring an aggregate of 55% in your first- and second-year assessments). If for this or for any other reason you were to decide you were unable to spend your third year abroad, you can transfer to a three-year version of your degree at any time. 

Career Pathways

Examples of careers you could enter include:  

• Freelance writer  
• Publishing  
• Journalist  
• Media  
• Marketing  
• Teaching