Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - Creative Writing and English Literature with a Year Abroad

Program DescriptionIn UEA's English Literature and Creative Writing course, students will immerse themselves in a thriving community of writers and thinkers. Learning from practicing writers and passionate teachers, students will sharpen their ability to sculpt language into stories, scenes and images. They will build worlds, develop their voice and find ways to express the inexpressible. Alongside this, they will study literatures from around the world, past and present. Students will discover how writers and thinkers have expanded literary possibilities, made art out of lived experience and shown us, in myriad ways, what it means to be human. In the process, they will become more discerning and attentive readers and writers. Creative and literary training will go hand-in-hand, each enhancing the other, as students explore and experiment with diverse genres, forms and subjects, from creative non-fiction, to podcasting, to the fiction of the apocalypse. Graduates of this program will have a wealth of skills that will open doors to fulfilling careers to them , whether they want to work in the creative or cultural industries, or in business, marketing or social media management. Events such as Working with Words will give students the chance to meet and network with creative industry professionals and UEA graduates working in journalism, publishing or as freelance writers.