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English with Creative Writing at Aberdeen gives you all the advantages of a highly-rated teaching, research and creative hub, teaching by acclaimed writers and poets at Scotland's top centre for creative writing, and the opportunity to develop your own writing in the wonderful environment of a historic university with an award-winning library and priceless literary treasures, and a vigorous calendar of literary events.

Study Information

At a glance.

Aberdeen is a leading centre for the study of literature, language and creative writing, rated second in the UK for its research output and top in Scotland for creative writing.

You’ll study the craft of writing creative prose, poetry and screenplays under the guidance and support of widely published, award-winning writers including the internationally renowned novelist Alan Warner, poet and critic David Wheatley, short story writer Helen Lynch, writer and spoken word performer Shane Strachan, and filmmaker Alan Marcus.

Your Creative Writing studies will develop your understanding of - and practical skills in - the writing of original work in any genre you choose to focus on. Through masterclasses, seminars and regular practical workshops you will gain a thorough, practice-based understanding of the creative process and technical challenges involved in developing your own original ideas into completed literary works.

You’ll develop your own folio of creative work in either poetry or prose, exploring and extending your creative ambitions in writing and a practical awareness of some of the key stylistic, formal and expressive possibilities available to the skilled creative writer.

You’ll graduate ideally prepared for a career in creative writing, publishing, journalism, teaching, or in applying your highly-developed skills in core writing, analysis and communication to a wide range of career options.

What You'll Study

Compulsory courses.

This compulsory evaluation is designed to find out if your academic writing is of a sufficient standard to enable you to succeed at university and, if you need it, to provide support to improve. It is completed on-line via MyAberdeen with clear instructions to guide you through it. If you pass the evaluation at the first assessment it will not take much of your time. If you do not, you will be provided with resources to help you improve. This evaluation does not carry credits but if you do not complete it this will be recorded on your degree transcript.

This course, which is prescribed for level 1 undergraduate students (and articulating students who are in their first year at the University), is studied entirely online, takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete and can be taken in one sitting, or spread across a number of weeks.

Topics include orientation overview, equality and diversity, health, safety and cyber security and how to make the most of your time at university in relation to careers and employability.

Successful completion of this course will be recorded on your Enhanced Transcript as ‘Achieved’.

15 Credit Points

This course introduces students to the study of English by exploring the dynamic relationship between author, reader and text in a series of classic works of fiction and poetry. It covers a broad historical range (from Folk Tales and ballads to 21st century postmodernity) and offers a basic grounding in key elements of literary theory, literary history and the varieties of literary form.

Literature can provoke, offend and disturb as well as entertain. This course considers some of the most powerful and controversial works of modern literature. It examines the circumstances of publication, the nature of the controversy, and the cultural and critical impact of each work. The course shows how poems, plays and novels can raise searching questions about national, racial and personal identity, and looks at the methods used by writers to challenge their readers, as well the responses of readers to such challenges.

'Rethinking Reading' complements the module ‘Acts of Reading’. Intended primarily for students with degree intentions in English, this course introduces key areas in critical theory that inform the current work of staff at Aberdeen. It asks students to consider the history of English studies and its relationship to colonialism, and how this impacts on conceptions of literature and authorship, alongside topics such as gender and sexuality, and genre. Through a series of modules, the course introduces each area of theory alongside a literary text used as a case study. The course supports students in learning to read and use critical theory in your work, incorporating reflective learning and a practical focus on the techniques involved in critical writing.

Optional Courses

Select 90 credit points from courses of choice.

30 Credit Points

So you think you know Shakespeare? This course invites you to think again. Studying a range of plays we get behind the mythology of Shakespeare, and rediscover the dynamic inventiveness of the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were the principal players in a period of literary experimentation that reinvented the possibilities of literature. Encounters with Shakespeare is your chance to find out more.

Select ONE of the courses listed below, plus a further 60 credit points from courses of choice.

This optional course in literature allows students at pre-Honours to learn about the impact of global colonialism through the writings of those who experienced it and its repercussions. It includes theorists of our time and texts like Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen. The texts on this course are necessarily concerned with enslavement and freedom, with how one encounters difference, and what it means to possess or claim territory. In examining these issues students will engage with issues of power and equality over centuries of writing about colonialism and empire.

This course traces the use of key Western myths from antiquity to the present to examine the way knowledge is often presented as both dangerous and compelling. As well as introducing students to a range of historical, social, and formal variations on the theme of knowledge, the course also highlights the role of storytelling and adaptation in the formation of knowledge and understanding.

• Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL35YB)

Select ONE course from EACH of the following categories:

Medieval/Renaissance Literature

• EL35EH: Classical Epic
• EL30CP: Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500-1640
• EL35DQ: Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing

Romantic/Victorian Literature

• EL30XR: Romanticism
• EL30SB: Britain and the 19th Century World
• EL35QA: Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories

Contemporary/Modern Literature

• EL35KN: Haunted Texts
• EL30FF: Modernism: Make it New
• EL30RD: American Voices: Self and Society,1850-1930
• EL30WC: Queer Times
• EL35UT: Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma

This course explores the poetry, drama and prose of a period often referred to as the golden age of English literature. A period which saw Shakespeare and his contemporaries produce innovative new literary works in which the language of desire took centre stage.

This course is your opportunity to study four of the most influential and gripping texts of world literature. We begin in the oral culture of ancient Greece, with the Iliad's stark meditation on war and death, and the Odyssey's consolatory reflections on divine justice, poetry and love. In imperial Rome, we see the genre transformed into a monument to political power in Virgil's Aeneid, then thrown into disarray by Ovid's irreverent anti-epic, the Metamorphoses. We end by considering some of the ways these texts have been exploited and adapted across the intervening centuries, in poetry and prose, art and film.

Knights, Virgins, and Viragos offers an introduction to the variety of medieval literature and culture. Turning a critical eye on the role misconceptions of the Middle Ages play in present day white supremacy, the course highlights genres from medieval drama to life writing, with attention to the medieval history of race making and modern responses to the work of Chaucer in the poetry of Patience Agbabi.

The Romantic movement swept Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and produced some of the most innovative and exciting literature that has ever been seen. This rule breaking art helped shape the way that we consider art today and underpins many of our ideas about imagination, originality, creativity and self-expression. This course will explore the ways in which the Romantic movement manifested itself across Britain and Ireland and will consider writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Austen and Byron.

The Romantic (1782-1832) and Victorian (1832-1901) periods were ones of remarkable activity for British citizens abroad. Imperial expansion, increasing international trade, major conflicts and growing mass migration all drew more British citizens than ever into contact with the wider world. This course explores the footprints left by these interactions in nineteenth-century literature: critically examining how Britain saw the world and how the English-speaking world saw Britain during a century of unprecedented international activity. This course will combine canonical writers of empire and migration with less well-known accounts of the period. Writers covered may include Mary Shelley, Henry Derozio, Fergus Hume, Cornelia Sorabji, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle. The course will apply a range of critical lenses to this material offering students an introduction to key concepts and debates from nation theory, settler studies and postcolonial studies.

While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is in fact instrumental in the emergence of the form. Often drawing on oral and folk traditions Scottish writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employ the supernatural, or our fear of it, to explore subjects such as guilt, fear, remorse and the extent to which we can control our own destinies. This course will explore the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. It will include writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Galt, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Jane Findlater.

The early twentieth century was a time of great literary experimentation as literary modernists rose to the challenge to make it new. We will explore modernism’s stylistic experimentation while also considering the social contexts and changes that shaped this literature. The course will examine a range of writers, genres, movements and locations which prompt us to consider what, when and where was modernism.

This course examines an important and diverse period in the development of American literature, lasting from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s. During the course we will be analysing works by a variety of American writers from this period in their historical, social and political contexts as well as considering the ways in which they pioneered innovative literary forms and techniques.

This course adopts a cross-period approach, bringing contemporary and premodern texts into conversation in exploring representations of queer experiences and themes in diverse forms. Divided into three sections, queer presents, queer pasts, and queer futures, the course will introduce a selection of theoretical and critical readings in thinking about how representation is shaped by temporal and cultural context. We will consider the relationship between representation of queer experience and formal experimentation, and how queer forms impact on our sense of queer possibilities.

This course offers an overview of a wide range of twentieth-century Scottish literature, focusing on themes of haunting, death, and place. Including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama, the course explores questions of the relationship between self and society, the legacy of the past, and the formation of gendered and regional identities. There are lots of ghosts.

How is the artist to respond when the virtual becomes the real and when words cannot carry the weight of trauma? How can an author avoid the accusations of voyeuristic prurience or crass opportunism when he or she attempts to re-present events of public violence? This multi-disciplinary course examines work from a wide range of modes, including fiction, poetry, film and graphic art, and looks at the difficulties of inscribing trauma and the ethics and praxis of remembrance. Key events covered include the Holocaust, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, 9-11, the Gulf War and the conflict in the Balkans.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to write an extended folio of creative work in either poetry or prose. It will provide students with the opportunity to explore and extend their creative ambitions in writing and, through the reflective commentary element, enable them to contextualise their own creative achievements in relation to works by established writers. Throughout the evolution of the folio, the student will develop a thorough practical awareness of some of the key stylistic, formal and expressive possibilities available to the skilled creative writer.

Select ONE from the following options:

• Screenwriting: The Narrative Within the Frame (EL45TM)
• Brief Encounter (EL40TL)

Plus select TWO courses from level 4 courses in English (see below).

This course will focus on the ways in which non-standard English is used within anglophone literary texts from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. Classes will cover a wide range of geographical spaces and publishing contexts: different weeks will focus on ballad collecting and linguistic antiquarianism, the use of language in American abolitionist texts, working-class voices in nineteenth-century English novels, postcolonial approaches to English, Scottish post-industrial writing and contemporary African-American literature. Authors covered may include: Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Edwin Pugh, Zora Neale Hurston, Chinua Achebe, Jamaica Kincaid, Tom Leonard and Percival Everett.

This course begins by considering the theatre that gave us Marlowe and Shakespeare, among other major dramatists, as an institution actively engaged in the controversies of politics and religion of the age. Part 1 of the course focuses on the plays of Christopher Marlowe, whose controversial life is unusually well documented and whose plays starkly anticipate later tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama . Part 2 considers how those tensions in politics and religion developed in later drama, giving particular attention to the genre of revenge tragedy.

From 1968-1994, Northern Irish writers and visual artists found themselves addressing key questions: what is the role of the artist in a divided society, and must s/he engage with political events? This course considers how the artists framed these dilemmas and how they have been framed by them. Following the outbreak of peace in the province, the role of artists changed: their work now focused on the victims of violence and to demand justice. This course examines the different approaches taken to remembrance by writers/artists and explores the ways in which memory and trauma are framed in their work.

This course focuses on the emphasis on sameness in conceptions of love and friendship within medieval and early modern literature, exploring its implications for the history of sexuality, and its impact on political ideology.

This course explores the relationship between literature and medicine, and asks what kind of ground the two disciplines might share and how they might enrich one another. The use and abuse of literary concepts in medical practice and of medical ideas and history in literature will be considered along with the literary representations of the physician and narratives of illness, focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The final part of the course explores the representation of psychiatry and psychiatric theory in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature.

What does it mean to inhabit a vulnerable body, or to embrace and celebrate ideas of vulnerability more generally? How can literature help us understand the precarity and uncertainty that seem like an inherent part of contemporary life? This course offers an overview of twenty-first-century women’s fiction from a variety of traditions, and centres on themes of embodiment, community, fragmentation, and environment. Examined together, these texts highlight the generic and thematic diversity of contemporary women’s writing, and the way the self must always be reconstructed through literature in new ways.

This course will explore the work of some of the most influential and innovative voices in 20th century British poetry. Beginning with the Modernist revolution in technique, theory and taste, it will trace some of the main continuities and reactions that stemmed from the first decades of the century and which culminated in a richly diverse and fascinating late 20th century/early 21st century poetic landscape.

Drama was the entertainment phenomenon of the early modern period: a popular art form that developed swiftly and attracted mass audiences. London was both the city that played host to this new cultural form, and the subject of much of its output. The course will examine the relation between life in the early modern city and the great flowering of drama by celebrated authors of the period. Using works by well-known writers such as Middleton, Jonson and Shakespeare, as well as lesser known authors, we will explore how the plays of the period engage with key concerns of urban living.

This course explores the work of women writers with particular emphasis on the role of place (focused mostly, but not exclusively, on modernist women writers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries). We will look at a number of different environments including urban, rural, domestic and trans-national spaces. We will analyse place in relation to a number of other themes such as gender, sexuality, race, spirituality and creativity. We will read a number of canonical and lesser known women writers, working across various genres, including fiction, poetry and life-writing. Authors may include: Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, Andrea Levy, Bernadine Evaristo, Elizabeth Bishop. Previous study of modernism is not required.

This course looks at how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic Fiction confronts themes and concepts which are considered taboo, unpleasant or strictly. Sexuality and mortality are key themes here, as well as the crossing of class, racial and gender boundaries. We explore how the Gothic can be simultaneously deeply conservative and shockingly radical, and speaks to private fears and desires whilst bringing to public light social injustices and inequalities. This course focuses mainly on the Gothic novel, but may also include poetry and short stories.

This course introduces students to contemporary poetry across its many forms and styles. We will investigate the place for poetry in contemporary culture, whether in poetry anthologies, slim volumes of verse, in performance, or on social media. Looking at a wide range of authors active from the turn of the millennium on, we will trace a genealogy for contemporary poetry, as informed by the legacies of modernism, and subsequent waves of poetic schools and movements. The course is strongly recommended for students with an interest in poetry, literary form, contemporary British and Irish writing, and creative writing.

Writing has not always been viewed as self-expression but for long periods of history was perceived as a branch of rhetoric or ‘persuasive speech’. ‘Brief Encounters’ examines some of the implications of this, combining textual analysis from a writerly perspective with creative writing practice in a workshop format.

We will endeavour to make all course options available. However, these may be subject to change - see our Student Terms and Conditions page .

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• Individual Projects

Assessment Methods

Students are assessed by any combination of three assessment methods:

• coursework such as essays and reports completed throughout the course;
• practical assessments of the skills and competencies they learn on the course; and
• written examinations at the end of each course.

The exact mix of these methods differs between subject areas, years of study and individual courses.

Honours projects are typically assessed on the basis of a written dissertation.

Why Study English with Creative Writing?

Why english.

• An international profile through major literary projects such as the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen and the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott.
• The WORD Centre for Creative Writing, promoting creative projects in fiction, non-fiction and collaborative mixed-media in all the languages of northeast Scotland (from Doric to Polish).
• The spectacular, award-winning Sir Duncan Rice Library, home to literary treasures collected over 500 years, charting the power of the written word from ancient papyri and medieval manuscripts to contemporary e-books and other media.
• Historic collections including rare printed books, the 12th century Aberdeen Bestiary, MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection, the novels of Sir Walter Scott, and an exceptional collection of Charles Dickens' first editions.
• A packed campus programme of student and public events, exhibitions, seminars, invited speakers and the annual WayWORD Festival, welcoming internationally acclaimed authors to discuss literature, including European writers.
• Research centres include the nationally recognised Centre for the Novel, the Centre for Modern Thought, and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.

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Entry requirements, qualifications.

The information below is provided as a guide only and does not guarantee entry to the University of Aberdeen.

General Entry Requirements

SQA Highers

Standard: AABB

Applicants who have achieved AABB (or better), are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/ Advanced Highers may be required.

Minimum: BBB

Applicants who have achieved BBB (or are on course to achieve this by the end of S5) are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/Advanced Highers will normally be required.

Adjusted: BB

Applicants who achieve BB over S4 and S5 and who meet one of the widening access criteria are guaranteed a conditional offer. Good performance in additional Highers/Advanced Highers will be required.

More information on our definition of Standard, Minimum and Adjusted entry qualifications.

Standard: BBB

Minimum: BBC

Adjusted: CCC

International Baccalaureate

32 points, including 5, 5, 5 at HL.

Irish Leaving Certificate

5H with 3 at H2 AND 2 at H3.

Entry from College

Advanced entry to this degree may be possible from some HNC/HND qualifications, please see  www.abdn.ac.uk/study/articulation  for more details.

Standard: BBBB

Applicants who have achieved BBBB (or better), are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/ Advanced Highers may be required.

Foundation Apprenticeship : One FA is equivalent to a Higher at A. It cannot replace any required subjects.

Standard: BBC

Minimum: BCC

The information displayed in this section shows a shortened summary of our entry requirements. For more information, or for full entry requirements for Arts and Social Sciences degrees, see our detailed entry requirements section .

English Language Requirements

To study for an Undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen it is essential that you can speak, understand, read, and write English fluently. The minimum requirements for this degree are as follows:

IELTS Academic:

OVERALL - 6.0 with: Listening - 5.5; Reading - 5.5; Speaking - 5.5; Writing - 6.0

OVERALL - 78 with: Listening - 17; Reading - 18; Speaking - 20; Writing - 21

PTE Academic:

OVERALL - 59 with: Listening - 59; Reading - 59; Speaking - 59; Writing - 59

Cambridge English B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency:

OVERALL - 169 with: Listening - 162; Reading - 162; Speaking - 162; Writing - 169

Read more about specific English Language requirements here .

International Applicants

Additional details for international applicants, including country-specific information, are available here .

Fees and Funding

You will be classified as one of the fee categories below.

Scholarships and Funding

Students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, who pay tuition fees may be eligible for specific scholarships allowing them to receive additional funding. These are designed to provide assistance to help students support themselves during their time at Aberdeen.

More information about Fee status, living costs, and work allowances for international students is available here .

Additional Fees

• In exceptional circumstances there may be additional fees associated with specialist courses, for example field trips. Any additional fees for a course can be found in our Catalogue of Courses .
• For more information about tuition fees for this programme, including payment plans and our refund policy, please visit our Tuition Fees page .

Our Funding Database

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There are many opportunities at the University of Aberdeen to develop your knowledge, gain experience and build a competitive set of skills to enhance your employability. This is essential for your future career success. The Careers and Employability Service can help you to plan your career and support your choices throughout your time with us, from first to final year – and beyond.

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We rank 8th in the UK for English.

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You will explore all aspects of literature in English from early modern to postmodern, benefiting from our expertise in a wide range of areas, including American, Irish and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science.

You will benefit from access to the University’s world-class Hunterian collection and the Library’s Special Collections, with strengths in the 18th and 19th centuries, travel, illuminated manuscripts and significant single-author holdings.

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Programme structure

The first course focuses on poetry and the second on narrative prose. You will develop skills in critical and creative writing and in analysing and arguing about literature while also gaining insights into how speaking and performing texts enhances literary study. Both contain diverse texts from different periods and cultures.

There are also opportunities to develop creative skills in writing poetry and fiction.

Where year 1 takes form as its starting point, year 2 is more conceptual in focus and begins by examining the urgent question of literature’s relationship to both environment and the body.

Its starting point is how literature has represented and engaged with the human relationship to, and responsibility for, the natural world and encourages students to think about the real-world impact of these questions. The second half investigates the concept of the body through an examination of the relationship between a wide range of literary texts and their historical, cultural and political contexts.

You will be reading and writing on novels, short stories, tales, poems, plays, essays and manifestos from the medieval period to the present day.

You will also study other subjects in years 1 and 2: see Flexible degrees .

Years 3 and 4

If you progress to Honours (years 3 and 4), you will choose from a huge range of both period and topic-based courses in a range of specialist fields. Our courses on, for example, Shakespeare, energy humanities, fantasy, children’s literature, contemporary literature, literary theory, global literatures, Irish and Scottish literature and modernism are all taught by staff who are leading researchers in their fields.

You have the opportunity to choose from a range of courses in creative writing and to carry out an independent research project which can take the form of a dissertation, creative writing portfolio or dissertation by work placement.

Course details

• ENGLISH LITERATURE 1A: POETRY & POETICS
• ENGLISH LITERATURE 1B: CRITICAL SKILL-MAKING: THE STUDY OF THE NOVEL

In Year 1, you will study two courses from English Literature with courses from two other subjects. See Flexible degrees .

If you intend to study English Literature as a Single Honours degree, you will need to study Level 1 English Language and Linguistics in either Year 1 or Year 2.

• ENGLISH LITERATURE 2A: WRITING ECOLOGIES
• ENGLISH LITERATURE 2B: WRITING THE BODY

In Year 2, you will study two courses from English Literature with courses from two other subjects. See Flexible degrees .

Progression into the Honours programme (years 3 and 4) allows you to choose from a huge range of both period and topic-based courses in a range of specialist areas, all taught by staff who are leading researchers in their fields.

You will take courses making up 120 credits each year in years 3 and 4 in Single Honours English Literature.  For Joint Honours, you will take 60 credits in English Literature each year, alongside 60 credits from your other degree subject. See .

Example courses

These are examples of courses you may study in Years 3 and 4. Courses may not run every academic year due to staff research interests, student interest, timetabling etc.

• AMERICAN LITERATURE 1 (1836-1929)
• AMERICAN LITERATURE 2 (1930 TO PRESENT)
• CORE COURSE 1: LITERARY THEORY
• LITERATURE 1510-1660: RETHINKING THE RENAISSANCE
• LITERATURE 1660-1780
• LITERATURE 1780-1840
• LITERATURE 1830-1914
• LITERATURE 1890-1945
• LITERATURE 1945-PRESENT
• BRITISH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
• POWER AND RESISTANCE: CONTEMPORARY IRISH AND SCOTTISH LITERATURE
• JAMES JOYCE
• LITERATURE AND MEDICINE
• MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER
• POSTCOLONIALISM: WRITING & THEORY
• RADICAL THEORY: CULTURE AND CRITIQUE SINCE 1968
• REALISM AND FANTASY IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE
• RELIGION, POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE
• ROMANTIC ECOLOGIES
• ROMANTICISM AND REVOLUTION
• SCIENCE FICTION 1945-PRESENT
• SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: PLAYING WITH HISTORY
• SHAKESPEAREAN FORMS FROM SONNET TO TRAGEDY
• THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL: TRANSATLANTIC CROSSCURRENTS
• THE FANTASTIC HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• US FICTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• VICTORIAN POPULAR FICTION
• WRITING THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION: LITERATURE, POLITICS AND RELIGION FROM MILTON TO MARVELL
• [[[ENGLIT4115]]]
• CORE COURSE 2: THE WORDS ON THE PAGE
• CREATIVE WRITING FICTION
• CREATIVE WRITING HYBRID FORMS
• CREATIVE WRITING POETRY
• LITERATURE AND COLLECTING
• CANADIAN LITERATURE
• FANTASIES OF ENERGY
• POETRY MOTHERS: QUEER POEMS, QUEER POETICS
• RAW MATERIAL: LITERATURE, EMPIRE, COMMODITIES
• DRAGGED OFF THE STREET: QUEER PLAYERS ON THE RENAISSANCE STAGE
• FUTURES: UNBUNDLING THE NOW
• MEDICAL HUMANITIES DISSERTATION
• ENGLISH LITERATURE DISSERTATION
• CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION
• MEDICAL HUMANITIES DISSERTATION 40 CREDITS
• APPLIED DISSERTATION WITH PLACEMENT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
• FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE EARLY MODERN IN OLDER SCOTS LITERATURE (1375-1501)
• MEMORIALISING SCOTTISH CULTURE AND LITERATURE
• MODERN SCOTTISH POETRY
• SCOTTISH JOURNEYS
• SCOTTISH FICTION UNDER LATE CAPITALISM
• HEROES, OUTLAWS, AND OUTSIDERS: OLD ENGLISH AND OLD ICELANDIC LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
• EDITING HISTORICAL ENGLISH TEXTS
• MEDIEVAL MULTITUDES: EXPLORING MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS
• MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: OTHER WORLDS
• [[[ENGLANG4057]]]
• INVENTING THE MODERN
• MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES

Programme alteration or discontinuation The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all programmes as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a programme. For more information, please see: Student contract .

Our international links

Glasgow is partnered with many universities in Europe, including the Universities of Amsterdam and Uppsala, the USA and Canada, as well as further afield, in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia.

Entry requirements

For entry in 2025.

You should refer to the entry requirements for both subjects and the degree award when applying for a joint honours degree programme . The higher entry requirement (where applicable) and additional requirements must be met for both subjects.

Summary of entry requirements for English Literature

SQA Higher entry requirements

• BBBB is the minimum requirement from S5 to be reviewed for an S6 offer
• Offers are not guaranteed to applicants who meet the minimum from S5
• Typically offers will be made at AAAAA by end of S6. B at Advanced Higher is equivalent to A at Higher
• Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject at AA. (AB or BA may be considered).

SQA Higher adjusted entry requirements* (by end of S5 or S6)

• MD20 : BBBB (also other target groups*)
• MD40 : AABB*
• Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject. Successful completion of Top-Up or one of our Summer Schools.

* See Access Glasgow for eligibility .

A-level standard entry requirements

• Additional requirements: one A-level Humanities subject.

IB standard entry requirements

• Additional requirements: English HL6 or Humanities HL6 with English SL6.

Advanced entry

Applicants who achieve exceptional grades in their Advanced Highers, A-levels or International Baccalaureate may be considered for advanced entry, meaning that an Honours degree can be completed in three years instead of the normal four years, or four years for five-year integrated Masters programmes.

Indicative grades to be considered for advanced entry 

SQA Higher advanced entry requirements

• Three Advanced Highers at Grades AAA attained in one exam year and at the first attempt. Subjects must be relevant to the courses to be taken at Level 2.

A-Level advanced entry requirements

• A*A*A 

IB advanced entry requirements

Admissions guidance

• Find out more about entry requirements and alternative qualifications

English language

For applicants whose first language is not English, the University sets a minimum English Language proficiency level.

English language requirements

International english language testing system (ielts) academic module (not general training).

• 6.5 with no sub-test under 6.0.
• Tests must have been taken within 2 years 5 months of start date. Applicants must meet the overall and subtest requirements using a single test
• IELTS One Skill Retake accepted.

Common equivalent English language qualifications

All stated English tests are acceptable for admission to this programme:

TOEFL (ib, my best or athome)

• 90 with minimum R 20, L 19, S 19, W 23.
• Tests must have been taken within 2 years 5 months of start date. Combined scores from two tests taken within 6 months of each other can be considered.

PTE (Academic)

• 60 with minimum 59 in all sub-tests.

Glasgow International College English Language (and other foundation providers)

• Tests are accepted for academic year following sitting.

University of Glasgow Pre-sessional courses

Cambridge english qualifications.

• Cambridge Advanced English (CAE): 176 overall, no subtest less than 169
• Cambridge Proficiency in English (CPE): 176 overall, no subtest less than 169

School Qualifications

• iGCSE English or ESOL 0522/0500, grade C
• International Baccalaureate English A SL5 or HL5
• International Baccalaureate English B SL6 or HL5
• SQA National 5 English or ESOL, grade B
• SQA Higher English or ESOL, grade C
• Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education, English Language grade 4
• West African Examination Council, Senior Secondary School Certificate, English grade C6

Alternatives to English Language qualification

• Undergraduate degree from English speaking country (including Canada if taught in English)
• Undergraduate 2+2 degree from English speaking country
• Undergraduate 2+2 TNE degree taught in English in non-English speaking country
• Masters degree from English speaking country
• Masters degree (equivalent on NARIC to UK masters degree) taught in English in non-English speaking country.

For international students, the Home Office has confirmed that the University can choose to use these tests to make its own assessment of English language ability for visa applications to degree level programmes. The University is also able to accept an IELTS test (Academic module) from any of the 1000 IELTS test centres from around the world and we do not require a specific UKVI IELTS test for degree level programmes. We therefore still accept any of the English tests listed for admission to this programme.

Pre-sessional courses

The University of Glasgow accepts evidence of the required language level from the English for Academic Study Unit Pre-sessional courses. We also consider other BALEAP accredited pre-sessional courses:

• School of Modern Languages & Cultures: English for Academic Study
• BALEAP guide to accredited courses

What do I do if...

my language qualifications are below the requirements?

The University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures offers a range of Pre-sessional courses  to bring you up to entry level. The course is accredited by BALEAP, the UK professional association for academic English teaching.

my language qualifications are not listed here?

Please contact  External Relations

If you require a Tier 4 student visa, your qualification must be one of the secure English language tests accepted by UK Border Agency:

• UK Border Agency Tier 4 English Language requirements
• UKBA list of approved English language tests  [pdf]

Visa requirements and proof of English language level

It is a visa requirement to provide information on your level of English based on an internationally recognised and secure English language test. All test reports must be no more than 2 years old . A list of these can be found on the UK Border Agency website . If you have never taken one of these tests before, you can get an initial idea of your level by using the Common European Framework self-assessment grid which gives you a level for each skill (e.g. listening B1/writing B2 etc.) However, please note that this is not a secure English language test and it is not sufficient evidence of your level of English for visa requirements.

Further information about English language:  School of Modern Languages & Cultures: English for Academic Study

Career prospects

A degree in English Literature is highly respected in the current job market, not just by employers in the arts, education and media sectors but also in public relations, finance, business and technology. This is because graduates in English Literature possess valuable skills for the future, such as argumentation, cognitive flexibility, coordinating with others, creativity and critical analysis and we work hard, with the support of our careers support advisers, to prepare our students for a wide range of future employment.

Degrees and UCAS codes

When applying you will need to know the UCAS code for the subject or subject-combination that you wish to apply to:

English Literature can also be taken in combination with Law programmes:

• Undergraduate Law programmes

Fees and funding

• Tuition fees

How and when you pay tuition fees depends on where you’re from: see Tuition fees for details.

Scholarships

The University is committed to supporting students and rewarding academic excellence. That's why we've invested more than £1m in additional scholarship funding in recent years.

• College of Arts and Humanities Deans' Award

The College of Arts is offering two scholarships worth £10,000 each towards tuition fees for academically excellent students wishing to study an Undergraduate programme within the College’s programme portfolio for 2024 entry.

• University of Glasgow/Glasgow International College University Degree Progressi

The University of Glasgow has a number of University Degree Progression Scholarships available to international students progressing directly from Glasgow International College (GIC) to register on a full-time Undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow in Academic Year 2025/26. 

• EU Welcome Award

The University of Glasgow continues to be committed to ensuring a strong relationship with our existing and future EU students, and supporting EU talent to make their home at the University of Glasgow.  

We appreciate the challenging financial implications that have arisen for our European applicants, and are therefore delighted to offer the EU Welcome Award to new incoming EU students starting an undergraduate programme for Academic Session 2024-25. The scholarship is awarded as a tuition fee discount of £5,000 for every year of study and is subject to satisfactory progress for consecutive years of study.  This discount cannot be combined with another University scholarship.

Applicants that completed a Study Abroad year, Exchange programme or International Summer School at the University of Glasgow and therefore eligible for the Alumni discount could be granted the EU Welcome Award as well.

• Undergraduate Excellence Scholarship

The University of Glasgow has a number of Undergraduate Excellence Scholarships available to new International and EU students for 2024 entry. The scholarship is awarded as a tuition fee discount of £7,000 per year of study and is subject to satisfactory progress for consecutive years of study.  

• RUK Excellence Scholarship

The RUK Excellence Scholarship of £1,000 for each year of study will be awarded to first degree new entrants who have attained academic excellence in one sitting at A Level (or equivalent).

• RUK Access Bursary

The bursary supports talented students who may not be able to take their place at University for reasons of financial hardship. It is available to new entrant full-time, undergraduate students of the University of Glasgow who are fully registered for the up coming academic session, ordinarily domiciled in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and paying annual tuition fees of £9,250 per annum.

• James McCune Smith Undergraduate Scholarship

The University of Glasgow has up to 30 undergraduate scholarships available for students of African/African-Caribbean backgrounds. The scholarship supports students who could face financial difficulties taking up their place to study at the university. The value of the scholarship is £2,000, paid in instalments for year one of undergraduate study.  The scholarship is open to new applicants to the university for 2024 entry. Current students who have previously been in receipt of the award may reapply, however, preference will be given to applicants entering their first year of study.

• Beaconhouse Schools

The University of Glasgow offer a 15% discount on the first year of tuition fee to students from Beaconhouse Schools and who enrol on an undergraduate programme at the University of Glasgow. The discount does not apply to Veterinary Medicine, Medicine and Dentistry programmes.

• Republic of Ireland (RoI) Access Bursary

Glasgow has a long and proud tradition of providing financial support to talented students who, for reasons of financial hardship, might not be able to take a place at university. Our RoI Access Bursary is part of our commitment to continue to attract and support students from a diverse range of backgrounds.  

Payments of the RoI Access Bursary will be detailed in your Award Letter.

• The RoI Access Bursary will be awarded as a cash payment.
• The RoI Access Bursary will be paid in 10 instalments from October until July; this award is based on household income
• The RoI Access Bursary will only be awarded in years where tuition fees of £9,250 apply 

Please see here for up to date information and criteria for 2024 entry. 

• Republic of Ireland (RoI) Excellence Scholarship

The RoI Excellence Scholarship of £1,000 for each year of study will be awarded to first degree entrants who have attained at Irish Higher grades  H1, H1, H1, H2, H2 from the Irish Leaving Certificate for 2023 entry . Dentistry, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine applicants are not eligible for this award.

• The RoI Excellence Scholarship will be processed as a cash payment.
• The RoI Excellence Scholarship will be paid in 2 instalments.
• The first payment will be in October and the second payment will be in February.

These payments will be credited to the UK bank account held on your MyCampus profile; therefore, it is vital that this is up to date at the start of the session. By submitting your bank details on the MyCampus system , you are confirming that you agree with the terms and conditions of the award.

Please see here for further information and eligibility criteria for 2024 entry.

• Beatrix Whistler and James McNeill Whistler Scholarship

The Beatrix Whistler and James McNeill Whistler Scholarships originate with an important collection of works by Whistler gifted by Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip to the University in 1935. Since then, and thanks to further gifts and acquisitions, the Hunterian has come to hold one of the two leading collections of Whistler’s work in the world and History of Art (SCCA) has become an international centre of expertise for the study of Whistler and his 19th century world.  

At her death in 1958, Miss Birnie Philip, Whistler’s heir and executrix, bequeathed the remainder of her art collection to the University, together with part of her residual estate for the purpose of establishing a scholarship scheme for students engaged in any branch of learning within the College of Arts & Humanities. In 2019, the Whistler scholarships scheme was revised in acknowledgement of the continuing links between Miss Birnie Philip’s 1958 bequest of artworks and her wish to support student learning at the University. 

The Whistler Scholarships are open to students in all disciplines of the College of Arts & Humanities. The award committee is willing to consider both individual applications AND joint applications (from up to THREE students). Innovative interdisciplinary work is particularly encouraged. However, students may only involve themselves in the submission of ONE application (individual OR joint).

The Whistler Scholarships cover travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses ONLY. 

• Undergraduate Talent Scholarships

The University of Glasgow is awarding c.50 undergraduate Talent Scholarships to support students who could face financial difficulties in taking up their place to study at the University for 2024 entry. The value of each scholarship is typically £1,500 p.a. for each year of the degree programme, subject to satisfactory progress. Talent Scholarships are available to students entering any of the University's Colleges.

Dental School students are eligible for a Talent Scholarship in their first year of study only. They are eligible for the NHS Dental Student Support Grant in the following years.

• Cowrie Foundation Scholarship

The University of Glasgow and The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation (CSF) will offer a scholarship to support Black African and Caribbean heritage applicants from socio-economically challenged backgrounds.  Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK and commencing an undergraduate study in the academic year 2024-25

The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation wants to fund 100 Black British students through UK universities in the next decade. More information on the Foundation can be found here .

• Sanctuary Scholarships

The University of Glasgow is offering up to 20 Sanctuary Scholarships for applicants to the University, who have been forced to travel to the UK for humanitarian reasons and are facing challenges in progressing onto Higher Education. The scholarship is open to prospective undergraduate and postgraduate taught students at the University of Glasgow applying for entry in September 2024/25. Please note that you must have applied to the University before submitting an application for this scholarship. The scholarship will meet the cost of tuition fees for the duration of your programme, for applicants who are unable to access mainstream funding through Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) or Student Finance . The Sanctuary Scholarship also provides a £5,000 per year stipend, to assist with study costs. In addition, if the eligibility criteria for university accommodation is met, this will also be provided for the duration of your degree, if required. For more information on the accommodation criteria, please see the  Accommodation Services section  on the website.

Undergraduate students with refugee status (or equivalent) and access to funding, are eligible to apply for the scholarship and would receive the £5,000 stipend towards study costs only, if successful.

Postgraduate Taught Masters students with refugee status (or equivalent) and access to funding, are eligible to apply for the scholarship and would receive the £5,000 stipend towards study costs and a partial tuition fee waiver, to cover any shortfall not met by your Postgraduate Masters tuition fee loan.

• The Dima Alhaj Scholarship

The Dima Alhaj Scholarship was set up in 2024 in memory of a University of Glasgow alumna.  After graduating,  Dima worked in Gaza with the World Health Organization as a patient administrator at the limb reconstruction centre, as part of the trauma and emergency team and was tragically killed in Gaza in November 2023.  The Scholarship is open to a Palestinian National who is living in or has been forced to leave the State of Palestine due to humanitarian reasons. The chosen applicant may be domiciled in any country but must be a Palestinian National.  The scholarship is open to prospective undergraduate and postgraduate taught applicants to the University of Glasgow applying for entry in September 2024/25.

• The Clan Gregor Society Prize

The Clan Gregor Society is offering an award to new entrants to the University of Glasgow who descend from Clan Gregor. Prospective students will be asked to submit an application highlighting areas of consideration such as academic excellence and financial need. The award is open to both Undergraduate and Postgraduate applicants for 2024 entry.

The scholarships above are specific to this programme. For more funding opportunities search the scholarships database

How to apply

Due to high demand, f you wish to be considered for English Literature you must apply using a UCAS code for English Literature, either as a single subject or as part of a Joint Honours combination.

Full-time students must apply through the Universities & Colleges Admissions Service ( UCAS ). 

SQA applicants who are eligible for our Widening Participation programmes are encouraged to participate in one or more of these programmes, including Summer School, to support your application and the transition to higher education.

• Widening Participation

International students to Arts, Engineering, Law, Nursing, Science, and Social Sciences   can also apply using The Common Application: however, if applying to more than one UK university, we recommend using UCAS. Applications to Dentistry, Education, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine must be made through UCAS.

Application deadlines

• 16 October : if including Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine or also applying to Oxford or Cambridge
• 31 January : all other UK applicants (unless otherwise stated on the UCAS website)
• 30 June : international students.

We do not usually accept any applications after these deadlines.

It's your responsibility to ensure the accuracy of your application before submission. Requests to correct application content, change degree programme or change college of entry, will not be accepted after these deadlines. This policy is in place to ensure fairness and consistency to all applicants, and no exceptions will be made.

• Apply at www.ucas.com  or through your school or college
• Contact UCAS on 0871 468 0468
• Apply at commonapp.org (international students to certain areas only)

How to apply for Advanced Entry

Apply for year 2 (Y2) on your UCAS application. If the specific subject is unavailable for Advanced Entry or your application for year 2 entry is unsuccessful, you will be automatically considered for year 1 entry. You do not have to submit a separate UCAS application.

• Apply via UCAS

More information about this programme

Guardian University Guide [English]

Meet our students

Sian: bauer media.

A love of writing and creativity landed Sian a job working in communications for one of the UK's biggest media companies.

Helen: Entrepreneur

Helen used the skills she gained in writing, marketing and design through her English Literature/English Language degree to launch her own distillery company from her family farm in Pitlochry.

Subject league tables

Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide [English]

Complete University Guide [English]

QS World University Rankings [English Language & Literature]

Related programmes

Related links.

• 2024 Degree programmes A‑Z
• Information about entry requirements
• Choosing your degree
• How to apply for an undergraduate degree
• Undergraduate accommodation

Degrees 2023-24 2024-25 Full-time (120 credit modules) per year £1,820 £1,820 Part-time (structured) (3 x 20 credit modules) per year £915 £915 Part-time (unstructured per module) (per 20 credit module) £305 £305

Rest of UK students

For students normally domiciled in the rest of the UK (England, Wales and N. Ireland, including Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and with a term time address in Scotland studying this course full time, the following fees apply:

Full-time	Level	2023-24	2024-25
Year 1	CertHE	£9,250	£9,250
Year 2	DipHE	£9,250	£9,250
Year 3	Degree	£9,250	£9,250
Year 4	Honours	free	free

4th year free only for students studying full-time, on continuous study, who have paid for the previous three years at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Part-time (per 20 credit module) - £1,542.

Fees are payable in advance each academic year unless otherwise agreed.

There are a number of funding options available to UK students to help you pay for your studies and your cost of living while studying.

EU/EEA and Swiss nationals without settled or pre-settled status in the UK

Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, the Scottish Government confirmed that EU/EEA and Swiss nationals, who do not have settled or pre-settled status, will be considered as international for fee purposes. Students will get an automatic scholarship of £3,000 per annum and the 4 th year of study will be free for those studying full-time, on continuous study, who have paid for the previous three years at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

This includes EEA/Swiss nationals with pre-settled status who are not self-employed or migrant workers in the UK.

Students will need Student Route visa sponsorship to study on the UK. International students For students who do not normally reside in the UK or European Union and with a term-time address in Scotland, the following fees apply:   2023-24 2024-25 Full-time (120 credit modules) per year £13,980 £14,988 Part-time (structured) (3 x 20 credit modules) per year** £6,990 £7,494 Part-time (unstructured per module) (per 20 credit module)** £2,330 £2,498 Part-time study is not open to international students requiring Student Route visa sponsorship to study in the UK. Further information on international course fees . A no fee increase guarantee is available for self-funding full-time and structured part-time rest of the UK, EU and international undergraduate students for continuous study for the same award, up to the permitted standard time limit for the relevant award. UHI has a number of scholarships, bursaries, awards, and discretionary fund opportunities available to new and current students. Please use the A-Z of funds or use the filter to see which ones may be relevant to you. All students are welcome to apply. Further information on funding your studies is also available, please see the attached link or contact the relevant UHI partner. What can I do on completion of my course? On completion of this course, you may be interested in pursuing a career in: Museums and archives Heritage sector Advertising Can I progress into further study? You can progress from BA (Hons) Literature and Creative Writing to the following UHI postgraduate courses: MLitt British Studies MLitt Highlands and Islands Literature MLitt Orkney and Shetland Studies MRes Eco-literature Is there more information available online? You can use the above QR code to connect directly to the course details. My tutors have been supportive and helpful, they really encourage independent, informed thinking. I think my studies will equip me with the knowledge and experience I need to develop as a writer, as well as provide helpful contacts. I’ve also been impressed by the support provided for lectures online; I’ve done online courses before, but the support at UHI is by far the best. Jennifer Mewes is studying Literature at UHI. Apply for Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) Apply for FULL TIME through UCAS: Use UHI to search for us in the institution choice list We are delighted that you are thinking about studying at the University of the Highlands and Islands. We operate a fair and open admissions system committed to equality of opportunity and non-discrimination. We consider all applications on merit and on the basis of ability to achieve, without discrimination on grounds of gender, age, disability, ethnicity and socio-economic background. We welcome applications from all prospective students and aim to provide appropriate and efficient services to students with disabilities. MLitt Creative Writing Develop your creative flair. Our MLitt Creative Writing offers you the opportunity to produce a body of work – poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction – over the course of an inspiring and stimulating year. Award Masters / MLitt, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma Start date September 2024, September 2025 Application deadline $value Application notes For students who need a visa: we are closed for September 2024 entry. Duration MLitt full-time: 12 months, MLitt part-time: 24 months Mode of study full time, part time Delivery on campus On this Masters course, you’ll learn to produce fine, nuanced writing and a body of work in either poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction. We combine intensive writers’ workshops, technique-focused classes and one-to-one tuition by distinguished writers, along with fascinating and useful visits from authors, agents and publishers to help you on your creative journey. You'll be taught by acclaimed writers Lorna Gibb, Kevin MacNeil and Natalia Liebnitz. The course is designed to develop your writing talent. It allows you to intensively focus on a project while engaging with a range of genres and working practices that draw upon our rich expertise in contemporary literature, publishing, film, media and journalism. You’ll also develop skills in listening, editing and peer feedback. Our course is open to all, whether you’re already well established in your career, starting out on your creative journey or want to take our MLitt Creative Writing later in life to enhance your skills and explore new creative prospects.  Top reasons to study with us Work placements. There are opportunities for collaboration and to take part in publications with the Stirling Art Collection and the Publishing Annual Anthology Showcase. Flexible learning If you’re interested in studying a module from this course, the Postgraduate Certificate or the Postgraduate Diploma then please email Graduate Admissions to discuss your course of study. Entry requirements Academic requirements. A minimum of a second-class honours degree (2:1 preferred) in a relevant subject or equivalent is required. If you don’t have these formal qualifications, but have significant relevant work and life experience, we still encourage you to apply.  We require a sample of creative work as one of the academic requirements for entry. Here are our guidelines for what you need to submit. Creative work guidelines If you are choosing to study prose, we require up to ten pages (fiction or creative nonfiction). For poetry, we are looking for approximately eight poems. You can also send us half prose and half poetry as your sample. Our tutors specialise in literary fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and scriptwriting, and we welcome applicants who share those interests. Journalistic, professional and children’s writing are not taught on the course – so writing in these forms should not be included in your writing sample. The personal statement is an opportunity for you to share your background, experiences and, crucially, the types of contemporary literature that you like to read and which you aspire to write. These are some of the things we’re looking for you to demonstrate in the writing sample, across both prose and poetry. The list is not exhaustive or prescriptive, and should be used as a guide rather than a checklist. A degree of consistency and persuasiveness of setting, character and point-of-view (in creative fiction) and subject matter, theme and tone (creative non-fiction) Evidence of essential aspects of technique and form such as narrative point-of-view, dialogue, physical description and narrative time Clear and fluent expression, avoiding predictable, clichéd or expositional language Good editing and presentation skills, including a command of spelling, grammar and punctuation A good command of register and tone A willingness to engage with aspects of technique and form such as metre, rhyme, imagery, metaphor and simile (although not all of these need to be present) Expression that is lucid and focused, without reliance on abstractions Clear evidence of editing and presentation skills, including a command of spelling and punctuation. Other routes of entry If you don't currently meet our academic requirements, INTO University of Stirling offers a variety of preparation programmes that can earn you the qualifications and skills you need to progress onto some of our courses. Explore INTO University of Stirling to see the pathway and pre-masters routes available. International entry requirements View the entry requirements for your country. English language requirements If English is not your first language you must have one of the following qualifications as evidence of your English language skills: IELTS Academic or UKVI 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each sub-skill. Pearson Test of English (Academic) 60 overall with a minimum of 59 in each sub-skill. IBT TOEFL 78 overall with a minimum of 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing. See our information on English language requirements for more details on the language tests we accept and options to waive these requirements. Pre-sessional English language courses If you need to improve your English language skills before you enter this course, our partner INTO University of Stirling offers a range of English language courses. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for entry to this degree. Find out more about our pre-sessional English language courses . Course details Our aim as you study the MLitt Creative Writing is to provide a supportive environment for you to develop your writing, allowing you the time and space to fine-tune your creative skills and make connections with your fellow writers and the wider literary landscape of Scotland.   Course Details You’ll take part in intensive writers’ workshops, technique-focused modules and have one-to-one tuition by the distinguished writers on staff. There’s also intriguing visits from authors, book agents, publishers, poets and others involved in the literary world. Workshops, seminars and guest lectures are held on campus. Throughout the course, we encourage our students to embrace the wider literary life by attending – even organising – events, readings, festivals and libraries. Staff have strong links to local research and creative networks, including the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival, the Annual Charles Wallace India Trust and the Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative, and students are encouraged to attend a wide range of literary related events. Assessment for each module you take will vary, but may include a critical essay, a journal or a creative project. Assessment for the workshops will depend on the literary form you’ve chosen (e.g. prose or poetry), but will be based on reading journals and/or working notebooks, book reviews and completed pieces of creative work. The most significant piece of work in the course is the creative dissertation, due at the end of the summer. This should be approximately 15,000 words of prose, or a collection of around 15 poems. A dissertation may be a portfolio of shorter texts – stories, personal essays, poems – or part of a novel. It’s expected to be revised and polished original work, written and presented to professional standards. If you don’t embark on the dissertation you may be awarded a Diploma. The work of the best students completing the course may be deemed worthy of an MLitt with Distinction. Course director Dr Lorna Gibb [email protected] This course is taught by Liam Bell Lorna Gibb , Kevin MacNeil and Natalia Liebnitz . Fees and funding Fees and costs, select your fee status to see the tuition fee for this course:. 2024/25 2025/26 Students from the UK and Republic of Ireland £8,000 £9,500 International (including EU) students £20,600 £20,600 University of Stirling alumni will automatically be awarded a fee waiver for the first year of Masters studies through our  Stirling Alumni Scholarship . Applicants from the UK or Republic of Ireland who hold a first-class honours degree or equivalent will automatically be awarded a £2,000 scholarship through our  Postgraduate Merit Scholarship .  Fees shown are for a full-time, one-year Masters course.  If you need to extend your period of study, you may be liable for additional fees.  If you are studying part time, the total course fee will be split over the years that you study. The total fee will remain the same and will be held at the rate set in your year of entry.  For more information on courses invoiced on an annual fee basis, please read our tuition fee policy . Eligible students could receive a scholarship worth between £4,000-£7,000.  See our range of generous scholarships for international postgraduate students. Postgraduate tuition fee loans The full-time option for this course is eligible for a postgraduate tuition fee loan from one of the UK’s governments. See the Scholarships and funding section, below, for more details. Additional costs There are some instances where additional fees may apply. Depending on your chosen course, you may need to pay additional costs, for example for field trips. Learn more about additional fees . Scholarships and funding Funding . Eligible international students could receive a scholarship worth between £4,000-£7,000.  See our range of generous scholarships for international postgraduate students . University of Stirling alumni will automatically be awarded a fee waiver for the first year of Masters studies through our Stirling Alumni Scholarship . Applicants from the UK or Republic of Ireland who hold a first-class honours degree or equivalent will automatically be awarded a £2,000 scholarship through our  Postgraduate Merit Scholarship . If you have the talent, ability and drive to study with us, we want to make sure you make the most of the opportunity – regardless of your financial circumstances. Learn more about available funding opportunities or use our scholarship finder to explore our range of scholarships. Scottish students may be eligible to apply to the Students Award Agency for Scotland (SAAS) for loans of up to £11,500 to cover tuition fees and associated living costs. English students can apply for a loan of up to £12,167 each year as part of the Postgraduate Masters Loan Scheme . Welsh students can apply for financial support of up to £18,770 as a combination of grant and loan from Student Finance Wales . Northern Irish students can apply for a postgraduate tuition fee loan of up to £6,500 from Student Finance NI . International students may be able to gain additional funding from loan providers. Cost of living If you’re domiciled in the UK, you can typically apply to your relevant funding body for help with living costs. This usually takes the form of student loans, grants or bursaries, and the amount awarded depends upon your personal circumstances and household income. International (including EU) students won’t normally be able to claim living support through SAAS or other UK public funding bodies. You should contact the relevant authority in your country to find out if you’re eligible to receive support. Find out about the cost of living for students at Stirling Payment options We aim to be as flexible as possible, and offer a wide range of payment methods - including the option to pay fees by instalments. Learn more about how to pay After you graduate Our graduates leave the course with a sizeable portfolio of written work that can be used to contact publishing agents and literary magazines when seeking employment. They also find a place for their creativity in many areas, including teaching, broadcasting, librarianship, publishing and community work. Many choose to become self-employed as writers and tutors. Some develop their interest further by studying for a PhD. Our MLitt Creative Writing graduates are highly literate self-managers capable of realising sustained projects using their own initiative and creativity. By the end of the course, you’ll have developed skills in: Communication and presentation You’ll be able to articulate complex ideas and information in imaginative, comprehensible and entertaining forms. You’ll also have improved communication skills letting you present ideas in verbal and written forms to audiences in a range of situations, as well as being able to encourage, evaluate and assist with the work of others. Self-management You’ll be proficient in working independently, setting goals and meeting deadlines. You’ll use your creativity and imagination to meet challenges and to respond positively to change and uncertainty. Critical engagement You’ll gain the ability to formulate independent judgements, articulate arguments and research relevant material, presenting your findings in engaging and innovative ways. Employability skills We offer a comprehensive employability and skills programme to help you maximise your time at university and develop the attributes that employers look for. In the Faculty of Arts and Humanities we have a dedicated Employability and Skills Officer. The University of Stirling’s Careers Service also works in partnership with academic staff to ensure you get the most out of your University experience, and are ready for the employment market. What our students said It's hard to hear the truth when your work doesn't cut the mustard. But honesty changes your work for the better. What I love about the course is that the core component is always writing itself, but it gives students a holistic and realistic understanding of pursuing a career in it. Related courses MSc English Language and Linguistics Which course would you like to apply for? Search for another course 15 Best universities for Creative Writing in Scotland Updated: February 29, 2024 Art & Design Computer Science Engineering Environmental Science Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Mathematics Below is a list of best universities in Scotland ranked based on their research performance in Creative Writing. A graph of 60.2K citations received by 5.59K academic papers made by 15 universities in Scotland was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores. We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website. Please note that our approach to subject rankings is based on scientific outputs and heavily biased on art-related topics towards institutions with computer science research profiles. 1. University of Edinburgh For Creative Writing 2. University of Glasgow 3. University of St Andrews 4. University of Strathclyde 5. University of Aberdeen 6. University of Stirling 7. University of Dundee 8. University of the West of Scotland 9. Heriot-Watt University 10. Edinburgh Napier University 11. Glasgow Caledonian University 12. Robert Gordon University 13. Queen Margaret University 14. Abertay University 15. Glasgow School of Art Closest to Scotland states to learn Creative Writing State 96 1 8 18 Art & Design subfields in Scotland English / Creative Writing / Film Studies courses Learn from experts in medieval to contemporary literature, film, and theatre. Benefit from partnerships with organisations like Dundee Rep Theatre and engage in Dundee's literary scene Undergraduate courses Develop your own, flexible, study programme to reflect your intellectual and creative interests across the humanities and social sciences Undergraduate Full time 3 years Combine the study of English literature with our distinctive creative writing course Undergraduate Full time 4 or 3 years Combine the study of traditional English literature with two European languages, and other areas such as comics, theatre, film, and creative writing Study the history of English literature, with module options ranging from the medieval period right up to the present day, combined with the study of film Combine the study of English literature with social, cultural, and political history from the early modern period through to the contemporary period Combine traditional and modern English literature studies with the study of both pure and applied maths Combine the study of English literature with an examination of modern and ancient philosophical thinking Combine the study of traditional and modern English literature with Politics Combine literature with the study of how the human mind works from infancy to old age in this flexible MA degree Combine traditional English literature studies with areas such as comics, theatre, film, and creative writing Combine traditional English literature studies with French and newer areas such as comics, theatre, film, and creative writing Combine traditional English literature studies with Spanish and newer areas such as comics, theatre, film, and creative writing This course gives you the opportunity of securing a place on any of our MA (Hons) degrees within the School of Humanities Undergraduate Full time 4 years Develop your own flexible study programme to reflect your intellectual and creative interests across the humanities and social sciences A flexible part-time degree allowing you to combine study with work or other commitments Undergraduate Part time 8 years (part time) Combine the study of film with an examination of modern and ancient philosophical thinking, to address some of the fundamental questions facing humanity today Postgraduate courses Research degrees. Developing your research skills with a MSc by research or PhD in English and creative writing. Contact our enquiry team If you have any questions about the admissions process, studying, or living in Dundee, please contact us We can also connect you with our alumni ambassadors to learn about their experience of studying in Dundee as well as their career and achievements since graduating.   Skip to main content Social Studies and Media / Creative Writing 10 Universities in Scotland offering Creative Writing degrees and courses More Information Are you looking for Creative Writing courses? Here you can find course providers offering full-time, part-time, online or distance learning options. You've reached your limit of 10 Favourites University of Glasgow THE World Ranking: 87 University of Dundee THE World Ranking: 301 University of Strathclyde University of Aberdeen THE World Ranking: 201 University of St Andrews THE World Ranking: 193 The University of Edinburgh THE World Ranking: 30 Edinburgh Napier University THE World Ranking: 501 University of Stirling THE World Ranking: 401 University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) University of the West of Scotland THE World Ranking: 601 Study level: All study levels Postgraduate Undergraduate Study mode: Online/Distance Filter your results Tell us about you. Nationality Select country Select country My current qualification is from Select country Yes No Select country Select country Current qualification {0} is not applicable for the study level you selected below. Qualification Qualification Grade type (only one grade type for your qualification) Grade type Grade type My score (current or expected) Please select Please select Please select Please select Please select Please select Tell us your preferences Subject Creative Writing Qualification Destination Scotland Study options Annual tuition fees Subject areas Destination. Get in touch English - Global Schools & departments Creative Writing Creative Writing Courses. Courses marked as (Credit) are open to everyone. As a credit student, you will matriculate as a student at the University of Edinburgh as part of the registration process for these courses. For more information, please visit the Studying for Credit pages . Please note the following regarding feedback: Credit Creative Writing courses:  Verbal feedback from the Class Teacher will be given on students’ contributions in class. On credit courses, students will be given individualised, written feedback on their final submissions after the end of term. Apart from this, Course Teachers will not be able to provide written feedback on students’ creative writing during the course. Non-credit Creative Writing courses:  Course Teachers will not be able to provide individualised, written feedback on students’ creative writing as part of this course. On non-credit courses, verbal feedback from the Class Teacher will be given on students’ contributions in class. Term 1 (September to December 2024) In-person courses. Screenwriting 1: An Introduction to Writing for Film and Television (Non-credit) Monday, 23 September (18:30-20:20) 10 weeks   (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Improve Your Fiction Tuesday, 24 September (18:30-20:20) 10 weeks (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Writing Audio Drama for Radio and Podcasts Wednesday, 25 September (18:30-20:20) 10 weeks   (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Writing Creative Non-Fiction Wednesday, 25 September (18:30-20:20) 10 weeks (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Poetry in Practice (10 weeks) Thursday, 26 September (11:10-13:00) 10 weeks (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Short Story Writing (Non-credit) Thursday, 26 September (14:00-15:50) 10 weeks   (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Writing Young Adult Fiction Thursday, 26 September (18:30-20:20) 10 weeks (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Online courses The Art and Craft of Children's Fiction 2 (Online) Monday, 23 September (18:30-20:30) 10 weeks (Course fee: £195/ Click here for help with fees and discounts ) Important Information For enquiries about the content of the courses in this subject area, please contact  Course Organiser, Dr Malgorzata (Gosia) Bugaj by email: [email protected] . For all general enquiries, please contact us by email [email protected] . MLitt Creative Writing Start date:  September Study mode and duration:  Full-time: 12 months Part-time: 24 months Study with us work closely with experienced, published writers who know the industry to develop your writing practice benefit from workshops with peers and tutors while developing your ideas work on an extended creative project developed on a one-on-one basis with your tutor prepare for the practical side of literary development experiment with new and hybrid forms work in a dynamic, artistic city full of history and possibility The Convener of the MLitt in Creative Writing is the award-winning novelist, short story writer, editor and biographer Rodge Glass, author of Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, Stories for the EasyJet Generation and Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography. Why this course? This course is designed across three semesters, with each class intended to develop not just the skills aspiring writers need, but the right skills at the right stage in their development. The structure of the MLitt gives writers the freedom to pursue their chosen forms and genres in terms of their creative work, while providing guidance and support in an academic context too. The staff team aim for a collegiate, supportive atmosphere – we aren’t just a writing course, we’re a writing community. Strathclyde staff can offer specialist tuition in a wide range of genres including: contemporary fiction & non-fiction historical fiction & fiction for young adults screenwriting Kathryn Sandilands The course provided a lot of freedom in terms of the creative writing which students were able to produce for assignments, with workshops focusing on tools and approaches which might help to achieve a final piece of writing. I think the vast range of things that we were taught across the Masters degree was one of the things I enjoyed most about the course. I was encouraged to try many different forms of writing that pushed me out of my comfort zone but in the long run made me a better and more rounded writer. Dr Rodge Glass Course convener. Read widely, think deeply, research thoroughly and revise closely, and you'll have a great time. Writing is a way of engaging with the world while trying to make sense of it. And the skills you learn will be useful whether you go on to work in the writing or publishing industries or not. Entry requirements Academic requirements An upper second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in any subject, plus a portfolio of creative writing. The submission of a satisfactory entry portfolio of creative writing. This should consist of one of the following: English language requirements Please   before making your application. Pre-Masters preparation course The  Pre-Masters Programme  is a preparation course held at the  University of Strathclyde International Study Centre , for international students (non-UK/Ireland) who do not meet the academic entry requirements for a Masters degree at University of Strathclyde. Upon successful completion, you'll be able to progress to this degree course at the University of Strathclyde. Please note: Previous Maths & English qualifications and your undergraduate degree must meet GTCS minimum entry requirements as well as the pre-Masters course and an interview will be conducted before an offer can be made. Lucy's placement at RIG Arts I had the opportunity to get involved in social media, the marketing aspect of things, creating my own blog, I started to learn how to promote things professionally. International students We've a thriving international community with students coming here to study from over 140 countries across the world. Find out all you need to know about studying in Glasgow at Strathclyde and hear from students about their experiences. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Scholarships EU Engagement Scholarships  are available to EU applicants who would have previously been eligible for Home (Scottish/EU) fee status Fees & funding All fees quoted are for full-time courses and per academic year unless stated otherwise. Fees may be subject to updates to maintain accuracy. Tuition fees will be notified in your offer letter. All fees are in £ sterling, unless otherwise stated, and may be subject to revision. Annual revision of fees Students on programmes of study of more than one year (or studying standalone modules) should be aware that tuition fees are revised annually and may increase in subsequent years of study. Annual increases will generally reflect UK inflation rates and increases to programme delivery costs. Republic of Ireland If you are an Irish citizen and have been ordinary resident in the Republic of Ireland for the three years prior to the relevant date, and will be coming to Scotland for Educational purposes only, you will meet the criteria of England, Wales & Northern Ireland fee status. For more information and advice on tuition fee status, you can visit the . Find out more about the process. Scotland, England, Wales & Northern Ireland Full-time: £8,700 Part-time*: £4,350 *  Year 2 fee will be subject to an increase International £19,600 Additional costs International students may have associated visa and immigration costs. Please see for more information. Available scholarships . Please note : the fees shown are annual and may be subject to an increase each year.  Find out more about fees . How can I fund my course? Students from Scotland Scottish postgraduate students Scottish postgraduate students may be able to apply for support from the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS). The support is in the form of a tuition fee loan and for eligible students, a living cost loan. Find out more about the support and how to apply . Don’t forget to check our scholarship search for more help with fees and funding. Students from England Students coming from England Students ordinarily resident in England may be to apply for postgraduate support from Student Finance England. The support is a loan of up to £10,280 which can be used for both tuition fees and living costs.  Find out more about the support and how to apply . Don’t forget to check our scholarship search for more help with fees and funding . Students from Wales Students coming from Wales Students ordinarily resident in Wales may be to apply for postgraduate support from Student Finance Wales. The support is a loan of up to £10,280 which can be used for both tuition fees and living costs.  Find out more about the support and how to apply . Students from Northern Ireland Students coming from Northern Ireland Postgraduate students who are ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland may be able to apply for support from Student Finance Northern Ireland. The support is a tuition fee loan of up to £5,500.  Find out more about the support and how to apply . We've a large range of scholarships available to help you fund your studies.  Check our scholarship search for more help with fees and funding . Graduates from creative writing subjects at the University of Strathclyde have gone into writing, publishing, teaching, journalism and may other professions. Some graduates have also gone on to further their skills by undertaking a PhD. Other have chosen to become self-employed as tutors. Writers who have taken masters and/or doctoral qualifications in creative writing at Strathclyde include Louise Welsh, Rachel Sieffert, Beatrice Colin and Colette Paul. Glasgow is Scotland's biggest & most cosmopolitan city Our campus is based right in the very heart of Glasgow. We're in the city centre, next to the Merchant City, both of which are great locations for sightseeing, shopping and socialising alongside your studies. Start date : Sep 2024 Creative writing, prospective student enquiries. Contact a member of our team on LiveChat between 10am and 4pm (GMT) Telephone: +44 (0) 141 444 8600 The data you provide will be used by the University to process your request. Further information is available in our Privacy Policy Have you considered? We've a range of postgraduate taught and Masters courses similar to this one which may also be of interest. MLitt Digital Journalism MLitt Media & Communication MLitt Interdisciplinary English Studies Our faculties & departments Engineering. 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Location: Glasgow Salary: £36,024 to £44,263 (Grade 7) Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed On: 27th August 2024 Closes: 15th September 2024 Job Ref: 642120 Humanities - English & Creative Writing Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ( www.strath.ac.uk/humanities ) Hours:  (35 hours/week) Contract:  Fixed Term (24 months) The Department of Humanities is a community of researchers, teachers, students, and support staff working together on some of the most interesting and exciting issues in contemporary culture. English & Creative Writing is an integral part of the Department and wider University with popular undergraduate degrees in English, and English & Creative Writing, Masters programmes in Interdisciplinary English Studies, and Creative Writing, and a vibrant PhD community. We have an opportunity to appoint a new full time Teaching Associate, on a fixed term (24 months) basis, to join our internationally renowned English and English & Creative Writing subject team.  English has been taught at the University of Strathclyde since 1964, when the university received its Royal Charter. Creative Writing has been taught at Strathclyde since the 1980s, with notable alumni and staff including Andrew O’Hagan, Zoe Wicomb, Margaret Elphinstone and David Kinloch. We are ranked 5 th for English (Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024) and 1st in Scotland for Creative Writing (Complete University Guide 2025). We have a number of active research projects and have recently attracted funding from the AHRC, The British Academy, and The Leverhulme Trust. The unit currently teaches two undergraduate pathways (English and English & Creative Writing), and two postgraduate degrees (Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary English Studies). We have PhD students from across the globe working across areas from the early modern period to contemporary literature. Strathclyde has expertise in a range of approaches to literary production including animal studies, experimental writing, linguistic and cognitive literary studies, postcolonial writing, queer theory, and literature as heritage. In terms of period, we have a particular expertise in the Renaissance, the Victorian, and the contemporary.   We are open to candidates with an established track record of teaching in any area of English Literature. We particularly welcome candidates whose expertise relates to race, and potentially gender and sexuality. The successful applicant will not only  teach their area of expertise; therefore, it would be advantageous if you can work flexibly across periods, specialisations and even disciplines. To be considered for the role, you will have experience in teaching and assessment in English; the potential to teach Creative Writing would be welcomed.  You will have a PhD in English Literature and/or Creative Writing (or equivalent); substantial relevant teaching experience at undergraduate level (including experience of assessing student performance and providing student feedback) and the ability to translate knowledge of advances in subject area into teaching and assessment methods and materials.  You will have the ability to contribute teaching to a range of existing undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as designing and convening classes based on your expertise and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences. Experience of supervising students and developing curriculum is desirable. 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