BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing with placement year in Loughborough United Kingdom | Loughborough University

Our English with Creative Writing program empowers students to craft original works while exploring established authors' creations. This highly adaptable course combines required and elective modules in creative composition, literary traditions, and linguistic studies, enabling you to customize your academic journey. Our faculty members excel in diverse fields including modern poetry, theatrical writing, cultural studies, and literary analysis, while your creative writing instructors are active professionals in poetry, fiction, and memoir writing. Their deep subject knowledge and passionate approach to both research and instruction create a dynamic, nurturing learning environment where you'll acquire essential skills - including valuable career competencies. The program's structure provides remarkable flexibility, letting you focus on creative writing, literature, or language studies across various disciplines and methodologies, fostering an inspiring atmosphere for your academic pursuits. Throughout the course, you'll explore all principal forms of creative expression (both poetry and prose) while developing critical thinking about your evolving writing style. Your final year will culminate with a significant creative writing project as part of your dissertation requirement.