Course summary
Why choose this course? – Through our Writers’ Centre, Kingston, you’ll have opportunities to get involved in a huge range of professional and creative activities, including poetry festivals and readings by guest authors. – You’ll be taught by a diverse range of professional, creative and academic experts. – Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019. About this course This degree gives you the creative freedom to experiment with reading and writing in a wide variety of genres and media. It’s an exciting, diverse, and stimulating programme that invites you to think about the world differently. Year-long modules, interactive lecture-workshops, small group seminars, and individual supervisions are designed to support all your needs and abilities. There’s also a range of assessments which will empower you to achieve your best work; this includes traditional essays and dissertations, alongside blogs, critical definitions, and creative pieces. Throughout your course, you’ll enjoy many extra-curricular events and activities including those organised by the Race/Gender Matters research group, Kingston Language Scheme, and the Writers’ Centre, Kingston.
Course details
Modules
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Year 1
- Reading London: Drama, Poetry and Prose
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Writing that Works
- Introduction to Communication
- Independent Research Studies
- Independent Creative Writing
- Optional modules including:
- Language and Society
- Language and Cognition
- Style and meaning
- Deadly Desires/Dangerous Discourse: Gothic Literature and Theory
- Being Human: Self, Subject, Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
- Sex and the City: From Victorian Metropolis to Modernist Wasteland
- Transforming Realities: Innovation and Social Change in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
- Selfhood and Nation: Life and Literature in an Age of Imperial Expansion, 1660-1830
- Content, Form and Creativity
- Dissertation
- Professional Communication Skills
- Optional modules, including:
- Special Study: Narrative
- Special Study: Meaning
- Special Study: Discourse and Social Media
- Special Study Language Processing
- Radical Writers
- Children’s Literature for Adult Readers
- Special Author
- American Countercultures
- British Black and Asian Writing
- Imagined Places: Humans, Animals and Cyborgs
- Making Shakespeare: Text, Performance and Adaptation
- Gender and Sexuality
- Creative Writing Dissertation Project
- Creative Writing Special Study: Narrative Techniques in Popular Fiction
- Creative Writing Special Study: Get a Life: Forms of (Auto)biography
- Creative Writing Special Study: Scriptwriting
Assessment method
Assessment typically comprises exams (eg test or exam), practical (eg presentations, performance) and coursework (eg essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation).
How to apply
26Jan
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:
- WQV3
- Institution code:
- K84
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate-course/english-and-creative-writing/entry-requirements.html
English language requirements
English language requirements
https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate-course/english-and-creative-writing/entry-requirements.html
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| EU | £9250* | Year 1 |
*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Additional fee information
*This is a provisional fee and subject to change as we are awaiting the Office For Student Guidance on Fee levels for 2021 and beyond.
For foundation year and international fees, please visit:
https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-funding/fees/
Please visit the provider course webpage for further information regarding additional course costs
Provider information
Kingston University
River House
53-57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ