Combines the study of English literature, English language and creative writing to help you learn new skills in a wide range of subject areas. Core topics explore the evolution of the English language and how it has been employed by society for communication along with analysis and exploration of critical texts within English literature. The creative writing modules will provide you with a firm technical foundation in the craft, helping you to write for a range of media, including print and digital forms, drawing on DMU’s expertise in digital humanities while at the same time developing your own writing in exciting and creative directions. You will join a lively and welcoming academic community, where you can study a range of topics including Shakespeare, screen and literary adaptations of the classics, romantic and Victorian literature and sociolinguistics. Our graduates are highly employable owing to their highly developed communication and reasoning skills and their ability to work independently and as part of a group. Many have progressed into professions including media, translation, freelance writing, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service. **Key features:** * Develop a wide range of transferable skills by learning how to absorb, understand and communicate complex information effectively. * DMU is ranked in the top 10 Creative Writing and English courses in the UK for graduate prospects, according to the Complete University Guide 2021. * Discover print and digital humanities by learning how to use a hand printing press or gain practical training in HTML, with options to explore the production of literary texts in manuscript, print and digital forms. * Join regional writing networks, take advantage of spoken word events, and perform and publish your work through annual book fairs and festivals such as States of Independence and DMU’s Cultural eXchanges Festival. * You will receive first-rate teaching from internationally renowned academics who are friendly, supportive and passionate about language and literature. There will be opportunities to attend talks by visiting writers, with previous guests having included former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. * Boost your career prospects through valuable placement and internship opportunities. Recent students have landed roles at the BBC and Penguin Random House, as well mentoring schoolchildren. * Take part in our international experience programme, DMU Global. Previous students have discovered Danish literature in Copenhagen, taken part in a scavenger hunt in New York Public Library and learned about the role of language in surveillance in Berlin."

"First year: Core modules: • Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare • Evolving Language • Exploring Creative Writing • Writing Identity Optional modules: • Work-based Learning (Placement) Second year: Core module: • Exploration and Innovation: 14th Century to 18th Century Literature Optional modules: • 20th and 21st Century Literature • Ways of Reading • Screen and Literary Adaptations of the Classics • Romantic and Victorian Literature • Text Technologies • Sociolinguistics • English Language in UK Schools • Introducing English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) • Language in Context • Grammar: Analysing Linguistic Structure • Semantics: Analysing Linguistic Meaning • Research Methods for Linguists • Phonetics and Phonology • Word, Image, Sound • Writing Place • Erasmus Year Third year: Core English module: • English Dissertation OR • English Language Dissertation OR • Professional Writing Skills Optional English modules: • Nineteenth-Century American Literature • Contemporary Irish Writing • The British Working Class in Literature, Film and Television • Unruly Women, Revolutionary Men • English in the Workplace • Modernism and Modernity • Staging the World: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries • Medieval.com • Sex and Death in Romantic Writing, 1780-1830 • Textual Studies Using Computers • Radical and Contemporary Adaptations • Biofiction: Writers’ afterlives • Writing Adaptations: Theory and Practice • English Language in the Workplace • Corpus Linguistics • Powerful Language: An Introduction to Rhetoric • Language, Mind and Culture • Perception, Persuasion, Power • Language Acquisition • Portfolio • Specialism and Negotiated Study"

"Overview: The programme is taught by a team of internationally-renowned scholars and creative writers and uses varied teaching methods, including lectures, seminars, workshops, one-to-one tutorials, and the Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard). Although some modules are taught by individual tutors, others are team taught, in order to expose students to a wide variety of approaches to the study of language and literature and the practice of creative writing and to allow students to experience a breadth of different teaching styles. The first year will see you take core modules on Shakespeare, the history of the English language, Exploring Creative Writing and Writing Identity. The second year builds on these foundational modules. Your knowledge of literary history is deepened through study of the core module which offers an overview of English literature from the 14th century to the early 18th century. Similarly, you will have the chance to extend their knowledge of language, taking modules in sociolinguistics, grammar, semantics, phonology or linguistic research skills; while you continue their strand of Creative Writing by taking either a module on Word, Image, Sound or Writing Place. In addition, you have the option to take further period-based literature modules on Romantic and Victorian literature and 20th and 21st century literature or modules which offers you an introduction to other aspects of literary and linguistic study, including in our areas of special expertise, adaptations and digital humanities (Text Technologies), as well as pragmatics and teaching English language (in UK schools and as a second language). There are also further modules in Creative Writing (Story Craft or Personal Projects). The third year allows you to specialise and to pursue particular areas of interest in the field of English and Creative Writing. All students complete an independent project, either a dissertation in English Language or English Literature or the Professional Writing Skills module. You will then choose additional options from a wide selection of specialist 15-credit and 30-credit modules in Literature, Language and Creative Writing. This includes the option to take a work-based module in either Language or Literature and further options in adaptations and digital humanities. Teaching sessions might be structured around discussion, working in small groups to analyse linguistic examples, a film screening or based in a computer lab depending on your module choices. You will complete reading and research in advance and join in conversation with your tutor and your peers. Individual tutorials with module tutors are available in weekly ‘office hours’, at which you can discuss any aspect of your course or get help with assignments. You will experience varied forms of assessment, including essays, presentations, exams, blogs, journals, websites, research reports and creative options. You will also be assigned a Personal Tutor from the academic staff who will be available to meet you each term and to provide academic and pastoral support and advice. Learning in English Language and English Literature is also supported by the University Centre for Learning and Study Support (CLaSS), which offers regular workshops on a range of study skills. Teaching is enhanced by study skills sessions and there is an emphasis throughout year 1 (Level 4) especially on the key academic skills. Contact hours: You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and sometimes an exam. Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 27 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research."

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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.

Course code: QW83

Institution code: D26

Campus Name: Leicester Campus

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Year 1

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Student satisfaction : 75%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 65%

Go onto work and study: 85%

EU	14250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
International	14250.0	Year 1

For students registering in the 2022/23 academic year, the fees for this programme are yet to be confirmed. Please note that fees are subject to an annual review. Any increase in fees for Home students would be based upon a review of our provision and in line with the fee cap set by the government. For EU and Overseas students such reviews will be based on a market assessment and communicated to students at least 6-months before any programme commencing. Please visit the tuition fees pages of our website for further information: dmu.ac.uk/funding

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