This course offers you a chance to blend creative and critical approaches to literature. You can study literature from Old English to the contemporary period, including American and postcolonial literature and world theatre. You’ll produce creative work across genres, including fiction, poetry, plays, life writing, screenplays, short fiction and/or travel accounts.
This degree combines creativity with critical thinking, developing transferable skills in research, communication, and project management which are highly regarded by employers.
The School includes leading poets and academics who are experienced creative writers. You’ll be taught by researchers of international significance whose expertise spans the historical and geographical spheres of English literary tradition.
Our alumni and former staff include founding figures of African national literatures Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, poets of great acclaim such as Geoffrey Hill and our current Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage, and JRR Tolkien, the leading fantasy writer of all time.
Course Details - Modules
Modules are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Assessment Method
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Course Details – Professional Bodies
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How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
Q3W8
Institution code:
L23
Campus Name:
Main Site
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Successful completion of Year 1 of a relevant degree course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature).
Might be accepted as in combination with other qualifications, please contact admissions teams for further advice & guidance.
AA in Advanced Highers including English and AABBB in Highers or A in Advanced Highers English and AAABB in Highers.
Pass diploma with 60 credits overall, including at least 45 credits at level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. The Access course must follow a Humanities pathway and/or include English modules. An interview and a piece of written work may be required.
BBB at A Level including English Literature or English Language and Literature and A in a relevant EPQ and pass Access to Leeds.
35 points overall with 17 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level.
We will consider this qualification in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information.
including H2 in English.
The Welsh Baccalaureate is not typically included in the academic conditions of an offer made to you for this course. If you choose to undertake the Welsh Baccalaureate we would strongly encourage you to draw upon these experiences within your personal statement, as your qualification will then be taken into account both when your application is initially considered by the selection panel and again when reviewed by the admissions tutor at the time your A-level results are passed to us.
including D3 in English.
European Baccalaureate: 85% with 8.5 in English.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.5
With no less than 6.0 in any component.
If you're an international student and you don't meet the English language requirements for this course, you may be able to study our undergraduate pre-sessional English course, to help improve your English language level.
See alternative English language qualifications we accept.
