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Description
English and Creative Writing at Kent is challenging, flexible, and wide-ranging. Literature modules cover both traditional areas (such as Shakespeare or Dickens) and newer fields such as American literature, postcolonial literature and recent developments in literary theory. Creative Writing options allow you to choose from a range of poetry and prose modules and develop your own voice and style. The classes will teach you about writing and give you the chance to practise, through writing exercises, workshops and assignments, your own writing. There is also the opportunity to spend up to a year studying abroad in either America, Canada, Europe or Hong Kong.
Staff in the School of English are internationally recognised for academic research which links closely with undergraduate teaching, and the School regularly hosts visits by a variety of international writers and critics both on campus and in the city of Canterbury. There is a weekly reading series during term time that plays host to a wide range of leading authors reading from their work, as well as publishing industry professionals. Our staff are all published writers and continue to write. Students publish a magazine of creative writing, poetry and prose. A number of our students also write for InQuire, the student union newspaper.
Independent rankings
English at Kent was ranked 12th in The Guardian University Guide 2014.
Detailed Course Facts
Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee- GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
- GBP 12450 Year (Non-EEA)
Start date September 2015 Credits (ECTS) 180 ECTS
Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
- English
Course Content
The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take wild modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.
Stage 1
Possible modules may include:
EN333 - Romanticism
EN326 - Narrative Theory and Practice
EN327 - Poetry Theory and Practice
EN331 - Readings in the Twentieth Century
EN332 - Writing America
EN302 - Early Drama
Stage 2
Possible modules may include:
EN681 - Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature
EN697 - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature
EN692 - Early Modern Literature 1500-1700
EN694 - Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
EN695 - Empire, New Nations and Migration
EN689 - Modernism
EN672 - Reading Victorian Literature
EN675 - Declaring Independence: 19th Century US Literature
EN677 - The Contemporary
EN679 - Writing Fiction: Tradition and Context
EN674 - Writing Poetry Using Traditional Forms
EN685 - Elements of Fiction
EN686 - Writing Innovative and Avant-Garde Poetries
Stage 3
Possible modules may include:
EN691 - A Throw of the Dice: Gambling, Gaming & Fiction
EN683 - Passport to Oblivion: Writing Self into History
EN693 - Writing Violence: The 20th Century, The Holocaust & The Ethics of Repre
EN671 - Writing the Past: Approaches to the Historical Novel
EN680 - The Magical Realist Novel
EN663 - The Book Project
EN664 - Wrestling with Angels: Writing the Prose Poem
EN666 - From Book to Blog: Geoffrey Chaucer and his Afterlives
EN667 - Harlem to Hogan's Alley: Black Writing in North America
EN668 - Discovery Space: New Theatres in Early Modern England
EN669 - Marriage, Desire and Divorce in Early Modern Literature
EN670 - Lyric, Ballad and Popular Song
EN676 - Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
EN580 - Charles Dickens and Victorian England
EN583 - Postcolonial Writing
EN586 - Language and Place in Colonial and Postcolonial Poetry
EN588 - Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945- 1995
EN604 - The Unknown: Reading and Writing
EN623 - Native American Literature
EN633 - Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature
EN637 - Unruly Women and Other Insubordinates: the dramatic repertoire of the Q
EN646 - Image, Vision and Dream: Medieval Texts and Visual Culture
EN655 - Places and Journeys
EN656 - Heroes and Exiles: An Introduction to Old English Poetry
EN657 - The Brontes in Context
EN658 - American Crime Fiction
EN659 - Contemporary Irish Writing
EN660 - Writing Lives in Early Modern England: Diaries, Letters and Secret Selv
EN661 - The Stranger
EN684 - Clouds, Waves & Crows: Writing the Natural, 1800 to the Present
EN687 - Poetry and Crisis, from the First World War to Occupy
EN701 - The Global Eighteenth Century
EN702 - Thomas Hardy
EN703 - The 'Real' America: Class and Culture in the American Gilded Age
EN704 - Discord and Devotion: Society & Spirituality in Middle English Literatu
EN705 - The Contemporary Memoir
EN707 - The British Novel in the 1860s: Sensing Modern Life
EN708 - Virginia Woolf
EN709 - Animals, Humans, Writing
EN710 - Victorian Aestheticism and Decadence
English Language Requirements
IELTS band : 6.5
To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to
take an IELTS test.Requirements
Home/EU students
The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications, typical requirements are listed below, students offering alternative qualifications should contact the Admissions Office for further advice. It is not possible to offer places to all students who meet this typical offer/minimum requirement.
Qualification Typical offer/minimum requirement
- A level:AAB including English Literature or English Language and Literature grade B
- Access to HE Diploma:The University of Kent will not necessarily make conditional offers to all access candidates but will continue to assess them on an individual basis. If an offer is made candidates will be required to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.
- BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (formerly BTEC National Diploma):The university will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF;OCR) on a case by case basis please contact us via the enquiries tab for further advice on your individual circumstances.
- International Baccalaureate:34 overall or 17 at HL, including HL English A1/A2/B at 5/6/6 OR English Literature A/English Language and Literature A (or Literature A/Language and Literature A of another country) at HL 5 or SL 6
International students
The University receives applications from over 140 different nationalities and consequently will consider applications from prospective students offering a wide range of international qualifications. Our International Development Office will be happy to advise prospective students on entry requirements.Work Experience
No work experience is required.
Related Scholarships*
- Academic Excellence Scholarship
"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."
- Access Bursary
Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.
- Alumni Bursary
Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students
* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Kent.
Funding
Kent offers generous financial support schemes to assist eligible undergraduate students during their studies. Our 2015 financial support package includes a £6,000 cash bursary spread over the duration of your course. For Ts&Cs and to find out more, visit our funding page.
General scholarships
Scholarships are available for excellence in academic performance, sport and music and are awarded on merit. For further information on the range of awards available and to make an application see our scholarships website.
The Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence
At Kent we recognise, encourage and reward excellence. We have created the Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence, which will be awarded to any applicant who achieves a minimum of AAA over three A levels, or the equivalent qualifications as specified on our funding pages. Please note that details of the scholarship for 2015 entry have not yet been finalised and are subject to change.