English Literature and Creative Writing BA(Hons)

Why study with us?

• You’ll study at our Falmer campus with its outstanding modern facilities, easy access to the city centre, and well-established arts and social scene.

• Our talented teaching team create a dynamic and supportive environment where you will be challenged and helped to learn and grow. They will guide you to think critically and creatively, develop detailed methods of analysis and interpretation and precisely communicate your ideas.

• You will be able to use skills acquired through this course and enhance your individual professional and personal development by taking advantage of volunteer placements with local community projects and city schools by becoming involved with local events.

• Guest speaker sessions will give you the chance to meet inspirational writers.
  
  
• You have the opportunity to undertake a year abroad in year three, extending your degree to four years. We have Erasmus agreements in place with universities across Spain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Austria.

• You can submit work to our online journal brightONLINE, join subject-related student societies such as the Literature Society and Brighton University Drama Society (BUDS), and take part in a collaborative anthology and a graduate show.

• You'll gain vital transferable skills including personal organisation, independent research, team working, communication and presentation that you can use throughout your career.

• This joint honours degree provides good grounding for many different industries including publishing and journalism, but equally provides a solid foundation for further study or research.

University of Brighton Literature Society (BULS) Open Mic Night

Checkland building, Falmer campus

Course structure

Full-time students have 10–11 hours contact time a week in lectures, seminars and workshops, but you are also expected to carry out independent study. Part-time study is possible and can be tailored to suit individual needs.

Our courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis in order to make sure that what you learn with us is relevant and that your course enables you to develop appropriate skills. When you apply to study with us, we will inform you of any new developments in your chosen programme through our applicant portal.

Year 1

Your first year focuses on understanding the different approaches to literary texts from both a creative and critical standpoint. You will study a wide variety of texts, including film, novels, poetry, theatre, short stories and autobiography.

Modules

• Practices of Reading and Writing
• Narrative and Narratives
• Literature and Theory
• English Poetry in Context
• Drama in Society
• Storying the Self

Year 2

In your second year you can tailor your degree to your interests. There are placement opportunities available in year 2 as well as field trips to theatres, museums, schools and other community projects.

Modules

• Creative Writing: Process and Craft
• British Literature and Twentieth-century History
• The Nineteenth Century in Literature
• Research and Practice

Options*

One from:

• Image and Text: The language of comics and graphic novels
• Writing for Stage, Radio and Screen
• Literature in Practice

One from:

• Studying Travel Writing
• Queer Writing
• Literature and Art History
• American Literature 1850–1945
• Regional Englishes
• Media in Practice
• Introduction to Journalism
• Television Studio Production
• Photography: From painting with light to zeros and ones
• Documentary Filmmaking: Theory and practice
• Contested Stories

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Final year

In your final year you will work towards your dissertation and choose from a wide range of option areas. In the second semester, you will collaborate with your peers on a conference where you will showcase your research and writing at a public event.

Modules

• Dissertation
• Final Year Conference

Options*

Three (one literature-related, one writing-related and one free choice) from a selection including:

• Community Placement: Theory in practice
• Russian Literature and Culture: The golden age and beyond
• (Re)viewing Shakespeare
• Apocalypse, Utopia and Dystopia
• Literature and Philosophy
• Post-war American Literature
• Literature and the World Wars
• Women's Writing and Feminist Theory
• Restoration Drama
• Adaptations
• Creative Writing Project
• Conflict, Migration, Borders
• Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Victorian Sexualities
• Brighton Rocks
• Writing the Contemporary
• Postcolonial Literatures
• European Literatures and Film
• Culture Wars: Revisiting the great divide
• World Englishes
• Language of Gender and Sexuality
• Approaches to Analysing Discourse
• English Language Teaching
• Television News Production
• Popular Culture: Europe and Beyond
• From Script to Screen
• Images of War
• Autobiography of the Screen
• Media Ethics and Conflict

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Watch students talking about their experiences of the Community Placement module.

Staff profile

Dr Jess Moriarty

International equivalencies

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Fees

Info

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2019–20.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK/EU students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

What's included in the fee?

When costs such as health or DBS checks, or use of specialist materials are incurred as a mandatory requirement of the course they are included in your tuition fee.

You may incur additional costs depending on the optional modules or activities you choose. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. Before you apply check with the school that provides your course using the contact details in the Find out more tab (at the end of this page) for advice about what is included and what optional costs you could face so you can budget accordingly.

See our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as further information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

Location

Campus where this course is taught

Accommodation

Maps

Accommodation

University building

Falmer campus