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English Literature with Creative Writing at University of Leeds - UCAS

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Course summary

This course teaches you to read like a writer. Develop your creativity and sharpen your critical abilities, acquiring valuable skills as both a reader and a writer. You’ll produce creative work across various genres, such as fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. You may also choose modules in specialist genres such as travel and journalistic writing or science fiction, fantasy and horror. You'll learn how writers of the past and the present have used words and literary forms to express their ideas and engage with their times’ social and cultural issues.  You’ll encounter historical and modern texts in English from around the globe, which explore themes relevant to how we live today, including race and ethnicity, gender, climate change and nature, social class, disability and wellbeing.  Learn how to shape language to convey your ideas and experience, craft your writing with other students, and build an individual portfolio of work that will set you on track for a creative or cultural industries career.


How to apply

This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

Application codes

Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2

Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)

Successful completion of Year 1 of a relevant degree course.

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements


English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6.5with 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.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/123100/admissions/143/entry_requirements


Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For further information please see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduatefees
English Literature with Creative Writing at University of Leeds - UCAS