English Literature and Creative Writing (Hons) University of Surrey

Overview

The English Literature and Creative Writing (Hons) programme from University of Surrey will encourage you to engage in intellectually challenging teaching in literature and creative writing, with acclaimed writers and scholars as well as enthusiastic and experienced teachers who convey ideas and explain techniques and methodologies enthusiastically and accessibly  

Career opportunities

• On this English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) programme, you’ll study vital and influential works of literature, you'll read and discuss contemporary writing as well as classics in a wide range of genres. You’ll explore canonical as well as more experimental forms, texts, and authors alongside perspectives, world views, and creative practices that have been historically silenced, marginalised, or endangered. Throughout the programme, you’ll develop sensitivity and appreciation for a diverse range of cultures and forms of artistic expressions, as well as emotional and cultural intelligence when discussing them with your peers and tutors. At the University of Surrey you can develop a wide range of creative writing skills and knowledge, looking at forms such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, graphic novels and writing for games. The survey, Graduate Outcomes 2024, HESA, shows that 90 per cent of Literature and Languages undergraduates from Surrey go on to further study or employment in a wide variety of careers. English literature graduates are ideally qualified for such professions as journalism, marketing, management, communications, publishing, the media industries, teaching, writing and arts administration. Some examples of careers graduates have gone on to include: 
• Graduate Trainee, Dale Carnegie Training 

• Editorial Assistant, The Handbook 

• Junior Account Executive, Livewire Public Relations 

• Teacher of English, Teach First 

• Editor and Marketing Executive, Warner Group Publications 

• Editorial Assistant, Hachette UK 

• Copywriter, Tesco MPC.