The English Studies CertHE will allow you to support and develop skills in critical thinking and creative writing. Students on this course are encouraged to explore and express their own ideas after drawing from their experience and from reading other works.
The unifying theme of the BA (Hons) in English Studies: Creative Writing and Critical Practice is the integration of writing and reading creatively, developing in you an understanding of the links between writing, reading, text and audience, to produce a sense of a readership, links to wider communities and an ability to test the limits of theory in imaginative and critically rigorous work.
You will engage with the complex response to social, economic, political and communications transformations demanded of writers and readers in the present and the recent past. The modules, while focussing on the literary content of these responses, examine the distinctiveness of critical analyses applied to them. In particular, they look at how these cultural transformations have affected theoretical approaches to inflections of individual and national identities, social class, gender and race.