Our programme lets you develop your creative skills while honing your critical reading across a range of genres and periods.
How will you become a significantly better writer? Workshops on core writing that is creative will enrich your understanding of short stories, novels, poetry, scriptwriting and narrative non-fiction, and encourage you to think on your own craft.
Our wide range of optional modules explore the political and social debates raised by literature, uncover the cultural and historical contexts that shape literary forms, and introduce you to writing from about the world. Your project that is final gives the chance to complete a long piece of imaginative writing, guided by our award-winning novelists, journalists, and playwrights.
Course Facts
Programme Overview
Each of the course offers you a range of core options in creative writing and English studies, allowing you to build your knowledge of writing in a range of genres and traditions year. You’re going to be encouraged to produce connections betwixt your critical and practice that is creative the amount programme. You’ll be able to enrich your degree in accordance with optional modules from other subject areas, including film studies and languages
We support your practice that is professional with arts ambassador scheme, regular readings and writers’ events, and possibilities to take paid internships in a variety of arts organisations. Certainly one of our modules offers a schools placement, and you may have vocational opportunities in Southampton arts institutions. You will find active student societies for film, TV and radio, offering media experience.
Programme Structure
In the degree you can easily:
- join one of forty student-led performing arts groups
- study film and visual culture
- indulge in writing workshops at Nuffield Southampton Theatres
- use a unique collection of rare books at Chawton House Library
- learn a modern language at any level
- join a student-run English society for social events
- explore experimental writing at Entropics, hosted by the John Hansard Gallery
- get media knowledge about our student societies for film, TV and radio