USC Catalogue 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE] | | | Application deadline: December 1 The program provides dual emphasis in literature and creative writing, culminating in the dissertation, which combines critical analysis with creative originality. Roughly half of the dissertation is based on original research, that is to say, research contributing to knowledge which enriches or changes the field. Doctoral candidates not only read and write texts as finished products of scholarship in researching their creative work’s literary and historical milieu, but also consider the text as writers create it, then compose texts as writers, a process that goes to the source of the study of literature and of literature itself. This integration of literature and creative writing is reflected in the structure of the dissertation, which introduces the creative work within a context of critical inquiry, bringing together the examination and embodiment of the literary act, a new model of scholarship and creative innovation. PhD candidates in literature and creative writing must pass the same departmental screening examination taken by PhD candidates in Literature who are not working in the area of creative writing. The exam tests students in various areas of emphasis (British literature, American literature, poetry, prose, etc.) and literature and historical periods as a measure of their preparedness to undertake independent research. The literature and creative writing student takes 64 units in all, 32 in literature, 24 in creative writing workshops and seminars and 8 units of dissertation studies credits. Admission RequirementsRequirements for admission to study in the department of English include: scores satisfactory to the department in both the verbal and quantitative General Test and the literature Subject Test of the Graduate Record Examinations; evidence of experience and ability in creative writing, as demonstrated by a creative writing sample; evidence of competence in writing English and interpreting English literature, as demonstrated by a sample of written work by the applicant on literary subjects; a satisfactory written statement by the applicant of aims and interests in graduate work; letters of recommendation from at least three college instructors; and grades satisfactory to the department earned by the applicant at other institutions. This program will accept applicants with BA degrees or transfer students with an MA or MFA in creative writing. Degree RequirementsThese degrees are under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School. Refer to the Graduate School section of this catalogue for general regulations. All courses applied toward the degrees must be courses accepted by the Graduate School. Graduate Curriculum and Unit RequirementsThe graduate curriculum is divided into 500-level foundation courses and 600-level advanced courses. The 500-level courses offer fundamental work in theory and in the history of British and American literatures and cultures. The 600-level courses feature advanced studies in theory, creative writing seminars and workshops and special topics. Although students will normally take 500-level courses leading up to the screening procedure (see Screening Procedure) and 600-level courses thereafter, students after consultation with their advisers may be permitted to take 600-level courses in the first semester of their graduate training. The student’s course work must total at least 64 units. No more than eight units of 794 Doctoral Dissertation and no more than four units of 790 Research may count toward the 64 units. A maximum of 12 transfer units, approved by the graduate director, is allowed toward the 64 units minimum required by the PhD (See Transfer of Course Work .) The student will be assigned a faculty mentor in his or her first semester in the graduate program and will be encouraged in subsequent semesters to begin putting together an informal qualifying exam committee. The makeup of the qualifying exam committee may change as the interests of the student change. The faculty mentor and informal qualifying exam committee will assist the student in planning a program of study appropriate to the student’s interests leading to the screening procedure. Screening ProcedureAt the end of the student’s fourth semester (second semester for students who enter with an MA or MFA degree or near equivalent), the student will sit for a departmental examination, which is part of a comprehensive screening procedure. Rarely, and only with the approval of the graduate director and the graduate committee, will a student be allowed to postpone the departmental examination and the screening procedure, and then only for one year. Prior to the screening procedure, the student will be allowed to take a maximum of four units of independent study ( ENGL 590 ), and that independent study will normally be used to prepare for the departmental examination; all other units must be in the 500- or 600-level seminar. Qualifying Exam CommitteeImmediately following successful completion of the screening procedure, the student will nominate formally a five-member qualifying exam committee, including a chair and three other members from the English Department who are in the student’s areas of interest and an outside member from another PhD-granting department. The committee must be in place and approved by the Graduate School at the time the student chooses a dissertation topic, writes the dissertation prospectus and schedules a qualifying examination. Qualifying ExaminationFollowing completion of course work, the student must sit for a qualifying examination, at a time mutually agreed upon by the student and the qualifying exam committee. This is a field examination given in the subject of the student’s proposed dissertation research. No less than one month before the qualifying examination, the student will submit to the qualifying exam committee a dissertation prospectus. The prospectus, it is understood, will not be a polished dissertation proposal, but at a minimum it should display a strong knowledge of the subject, much of the relevant secondary material and other contexts crucial to the writing of the dissertation, and should present a workable plan of attack as well as a reasonably sophisticated understanding of the theoretical assumptions involved in the subject. The qualifying examination will consist of both written and oral portions with special emphasis areas in creative writing. It will focus on the dissertation area and its contexts with the specific format and content of the examination being negotiated among the student and all members of the examination committee. Upon successful completion of the qualifying examination the student proceeds to the writing of the doctoral dissertation. DissertationThe final stage of the program is the submission of a creative dissertation that makes an original, substantial and publishable contribution to creative literature: a book of poems, a novel, a collection of short stories. Foreign LanguagePhD students are required to demonstrate proficiency in at least one foreign language. This may be demonstrated by completing a course in the literature of that language at the 400 or 500 level (with a grade of B [3.0] or better) or by passing a foreign language exam that tests proficiency in reading comprehension and translation. PhD students may also be required to demonstrate proficiency in additional languages, as determined by the qualifying exam committee in view of the student’s proposed field of research. University of Redlands Emergency Alert System Alert Received: . For more information, visit: https://www.redlands.edu/alert/ - Schools and Centers
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Program Learning Outcomes - Creative WritingBachelor of arts. - Reading and Analysis: Through coursework and in consultation with their advisors, creative writers encounter a wide range of literature. They are able to raise and engage questions of justice, value, and meaning raised by literary texts, and understand how texts can produce multiple readings.
- Invention and Craft: Through their own writing and in workshops, students encounter and employ the components of a writer’s craft: prosody, narrative strategies, forms, genres, and aesthetics. As they progress through workshops in various genres, students encounter increasing levels of difficulty. They learn to negotiate intention, aptitude, and effort, and acknowledge that a similar struggle faces other writers.
- Technical Competence: Through their own writing and in workshops, students develop fluency as writers, learn to self-edit and identify grammar issues, and recognize that there are resources available to them beyond the ones provided in class. They understand and demonstrate the habits of professional writers, including revision, developing community, public reading, and submission for publication.
Curriculum Map University of Notre Dame Department of English College of Arts and Letters Tina LuptonProfessor, English ![creative writing at university of reading Professor, English](https://english.nd.edu/assets/580017/600x600/tina_lupton_600x600.jpg) Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey M.A., University of Sussex, Brighton, England B.A., Flinders University, South Australia Research and teaching interestsMateriality of the Book, History and Future of Reading, British and American Novel, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Literature and/as Work Christina teaches the theory of the book, very broadly defined, and works on the history of reading from the eighteenth century to the present. Her main body of research has been into the history of reading as an activity that is both materially defined by the codex format, and politically tied up with the history of work and leisure. Reading and the Making of Time (JHU, 2018) explores these themes in the context of a group of eighteenth-century readers, largely women, and mostly professionals, who make and struggle for time for books in their lives. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Christina was part of a team studying the habits of novel readers under more recent conditions. The results of that study, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic , (OUP, 2022) was published as a co-authored book and won the British Association for Contemporary Literature Monograph Prize in 2023. Christina is now working at work on two different projects, Literature and the Working Day , a study of the way that the novel has reflected and complimented working life since the 1700s, and Paid Leaves: Writing a Life Around 1968 , which explores the sponsorship of life writing by state and social policy at that moment in the US and the UK. She remains interested more generally in the work of Michel Serres, Jacques Rancière, Peter Weiss, Siegfried Kracauer, Hannah Arendt, and Raymond Williams and in recent fictions that engage with the relationship between work, reading, and temporal experience. Representative publications“Jacques Rancière, J.M. Coetzee, and Doing Things Oneself,” New Literary History , Autumn 2024, Vol. 54, no. 4., 1595-1611. With Ben Davies and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic , Oxford University Press, 2022. (Winner of 2022 British Association for Contemporary Literature Monograph Prize) “Queer Times for The Straight Book: Maggie Nelson and Michel Serres” POST 45 , September 2019. Reading and The Making of Time , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. ![creative writing at university of reading](https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=431808447194984&ev=PageView&noscript=1) - The Open University
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The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there’s a “peasants and lords issue” in the program. By Ryan Quinn You have / 5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. ![creative writing at university of reading A photograph of Stanford University's campus, showing the Hoover Tower.](https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2024-08/Stanford_University_Campus_GettyImages-1356455838_edit%20%281%29.jpg?itok=CpugJyZd) Stanford University is laying off its current Jones Lecturers. Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the “red wedding” in Game of Thrones —a massacre of characters by their supposed allies amid what had been billed as a celebratory feast. Last Wednesday, a dean, a senior associate dean and a co-director of Stanford’s storied and popular creative writing program held a Zoom meeting with the program’s 23 Jones Lecturers, according to some of those lecturers, who were chosen from the ranks of those who have held the university’s prestigious Stegner Fellowship for writers. The university leaders complimented the Jones Lecturers over Zoom. “They praised us to the moon,” Tom Kealey, a lecturer for two decades, told Inside Higher Ed . “Endlessly” praised was how Edward Porter, a lecturer of eight years, put it. Most Popular- Supreme Court keeps Biden’s SAVE plan blocked for now
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Then, Kealey said, the leaders announced they would all be losing their jobs within the next two academic years. “The worst part is to be praised while you’re being fired,” Porter said. According to notes he took of the meeting, Nicholas Jenkins, the program’s co-director, said something to the effect of “you’re excellent, but others will be excellent in the future.” There was an added sense of betrayal. The deans—Debra Satz, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Gabriella Safran, senior associate dean of humanities and arts—said this wasn’t their decision, according to Kealey. In Medium posts on the ordeal, he wrote that they said it came from “the senior professors of creative writing.” “These are literally our teaching colleagues of the last five to 15 years,” Kealey wrote. “And they decided in a previous secret meeting to fire all 23 of their junior colleagues.” In another post, he wrote that “it was only the MALE professors who voted to fire us.” ( Inside Higher Ed reached out Tuesday to some of the male creative writing professors on Tuesday, but received no responses.) In an unsigned announcement last Wednesday on the university’s website, Stanford said it is returning to the “original intent of the Jones Lectureships: one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for a limited term.” That announcement said the recommendation came from faculty members on a “Working Group of Creative Writing Academic Council faculty,” but it didn’t name them. Satz, Safran and Jenkins said in an emailed joint statement to Inside Higher Ed that "this change will again allow Stegner Fellows the opportunity to apply to be Jones Lecturers once they have completed their fellowships. Jones Lecturers will have one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for up to four additional years." While it’s no longer rare for non-tenure-track faculty members to be laid off by higher education institutions facing budget woes, Stanford is a wealthy institution and creative writing is, by its own admission, a popular program. “We have a large number of fully enrolled classes, many with significant waitlists and some where the waitlists are longer than the enrollment roster,” Jenkins said in a February 2023 article on the university’s website. He also said, “We’re in a remarkable period of hiring during which we’re fortunate enough to be bringing to campus an extraordinarily talented array of significant artists and teachers.” But the lecturers say they’re the ones teaching most of the creative writing classes for undergraduates, and that their years of experience improve teaching. Kealey said some lecturers teach five classes a year; others teach four. He wrote on Medium of the senior creative writing professors that “the 10 of them … taught 13 undergraduate classes last year (and 19 overall, less than two classes taught per professor).” The leaders said during the Zoom meeting the decision wasn’t about money, according to Porter. “It’s maddening to have outstanding enrollment and be phased out anyway,” he said. While the university has said it wants to simply return the Jones Lectureships to the short stints they used to be, Kealey suggests the tenured professors in his department had other motives. “I think there’s a peasants and lords issue here,” Kealey said. A Long Time Coming?In 1946, Wallace Stegner, who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Angle of Repose , founded Stanford’s creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowships are named in his honor. Editors’ Picks- Universities Hit Back Against Proposed Online Attendance Policy
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E. H. Jones, who had an oil fortune, funded the fellowships and also established the connected Jones Lectureships, according to the university’s announcement from last week. It said these were meant to be “limited, fixed-year teaching appointments, allowing exceptional Stegner Fellows some time and support to prepare a manuscript for publication, hone their teaching skills and transition to a longer-term teaching career elsewhere.” But “over time this framework of term-limited appointments was not followed,” the university said. It did not say when that change occurred. It might have had something to do with Eavan Boland. Boland, an Irish poet, led the creative writing program for 20 years until her sudden death in 2020. “Eavan was just a fierce defender of the program,” Kealey said. He said her death “was a great loss to all of us.” When Boland joined the program, Kealey said, it had maybe 20 or 25 classes. But Boland wanted every student who so desired to be able to take a creative writing class. Kealey said lecturers went to residence halls in early years to speak with students about the program. Over about 15 years, Kealey said, the program grew to offer about 120 classes. Porter said Boland “developed a large cadre of about 20 to 25 lecturers.” Even though they were on one-year contracts, Porter said, they kept getting renewed. He said it’s true that Boland did move the lectureships away from their original intent—but that it was beneficial for students, teaching and the program. “There are a lot of human skills to playing this game, and those don’t come in a year,” Porter said. “We have letters, testimonials from students about how much we’ve meant to them. We’re also very available to them—we talk to them outside of class, there’s a sense of continuing mentorship if they want it.” Now, Porter said, “there is at least the appearance” of the university creating “artificial scarcity,” suggesting there’s no room for the new, younger Stegner Fellows writers to get a leg up by becoming Jones Lecturers “because these crusty old folks are hogging up all the real estate.” Safran, the senior associate dean, said, per Porter’s meeting notes, that “in some years few or no Stegners were able to advance.” Kealey said, “There’s no shortage of space for new Stegner Fellows to be hired into the Jones Lectureships, but, I don’t know, the professors wanted to do a scorched earth with this, and that’s what they’ve done.” The lecturers said they pushed for, and received, raises from the university in September 2023. “Exactly a year later we’re all fired,” so “connect the dots here,” Kealey said. “I think the lords didn’t like that—didn’t like the peasants speaking up.” Porter talked about “balancing one set of values against the other.” He said the tenured or tenure-track “creative writing faculty doesn’t teach many classes and many of them are not involved—they don’t care about the undergraduates. It’s not their job to care; it’s their job to write books, be famous and raise money, and that’s very necessary.” And part of the purpose of the Jones Lectureship program is to give new writers a step up. 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Admission StepsEnglish and literary arts - creative writing - phd, admission requirements. Terms and Deadlines Degree and GPA Requirements Additional Standards for Non-Native English SpeakersAdditional standards for international applicants. For the 2025-2026 academic year See 2024-2025 requirements instead Fall 2025 quarter (beginning in September)Final submission deadline: December 16, 2024 Final submission deadline: Applicants cannot submit applications after the final submission deadline. Degrees and GPA RequirementsBachelors degree: All graduate applicants must hold an earned baccalaureate from a regionally accredited college or university or the recognized equivalent from an international institution. Masters degree: This program requires a masters degree as well as the baccalaureate. University GPA requirement: The minimum grade point average for admission consideration for graduate study at the University of Denver must meet one of the following criteria: A cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the baccalaureate degree. A cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the last 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits (approximately two years of work) for the baccalaureate degree. An earned master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution or the recognized equivalent from an international institution supersedes the minimum GPA requirement for the baccalaureate. A cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for all graduate coursework completed for applicants who have not earned a master’s degree or higher. 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Develop as an artist, curator and writer with our BA Art and Creative Writing programme. This four-year, joint honours course reflects recent developments in art and culture. For example, you will: - learn about new digital art and publishing platforms
- expand your understanding of contemporary literature and art theories
- develop your skills in art writing.
Art and creative writing are a stimulating combination at degree level – they enhance and inform one another. Additionally, studying theories and practitioners across the art and literature disciplines will inspire and influence your own art and writing as you hone your technique and form. Studying at the Reading School of Art allows you to explore a vast range of media and experiment with emerging art forms. Over the course of your four years of study, you will: - work with academics who include artists, curators and researchers
- be encouraged to participate in exhibitions, public art commissions and events
- receive dedicated studio space, accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and a studio tutor to help develop your individual and professional practice.
You will complement your practical art with modules in contemporary art theory and the history of art. Through the lectures, seminars and studio teaching – as well as weekly visiting artist talks – you will be exposed to the language, vocabulary and debates that have emerged historically and evolved to forge contemporary art. Creative writingExplore literature creatively as you develop characters, shape poems, and draw on your imagination. You will learn from prize-winning authors and academics who are committed to teaching through the workshop model. These small group sessions are the heart of Reading’s writing community: guided by one of our lecturers, you and your fellow students will gain confidence as your share your writing and help each other improve. You will also have the opportunity to publish your work – and gain experience in editing and publishing – by participating in our online creative magazine . Find out more about our creative writing studies, including information about our academics, on our Department of English Literature’s creative writing webpage . Your learning environmentYou will learn through a mixture of: - studio teaching
- group workshops
- technical inductions
- one-to-one tutorials
- museum and gallery visits.
You will also receive academic guidance through oral and written feedback. Your creative writing modules will place a strong emphasis on small-group learning within a friendly and supportive environment, and you will have access to our resident professional writer who advises our students individually. 100% of our students said teaching staff are good at explaining things. (National Student Survey 2024, responders from the Department of English Literature.) For your art modules, you will have access to our range of facilities. These include: - studios for construction, printing and casting
- darkrooms for photography
- digital tools for film and video editing, imaging, sound and web building
- a dedicated audio-visual room and sound-recording booth.
You will be encouraged to undertake academic placements during your studies. Recent opportunities for year long and shorter placements in art have included: - interned at Studio Voltaire and the Frieze Art Fair
- performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
- involvement in an Arts Council-supported film project at the Museum of Rural Life
- participated in an international exhibition at the Seoul Institute of Arts in South Korea.
Study abroadIn your third year, you can spend a semester studying abroad at one of our partner institutions. To find out more, visit our Study Abroad site . Entry requirements A Level BBBSelect Reading as your firm choice on UCAS and we'll guarantee you a place even if you don't quite meet your offer. For details, see our firm choice scheme . Our typical offers are expressed in terms of A level, BTEC and International Baccalaureate requirements. However, we also accept many other qualifications . Typical offerBBB including a grade B in English Literature or a related subject. Related subjects include: English Language, English Language and Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Creative Writing. You will be asked to provide an online portfolio of your work when you apply. International Baccalaureate30 points overall including 5 in English or related subject at higher level. Extended Project QualificationIn recognition of the excellent preparation that the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) provides to students for University study, we can now include achievement in the EPQ as part of a formal offer. BTEC Extended DiplomaDDM including comparable subject modules. English language requirementsIELTS 7.0, with no component below 6.0 For information on other English language qualifications, please visit our international student pages . Alternative entry requirements for International and EU studentsFor country specific entry requirements look at entry requirements by country . Pre-sessional English language programmeIf you need to improve your English language score you can take a pre-sessional English course prior to entry onto your degree. - Find out the English language requirements for our courses and our pre-sessional English programme
Compulsory modulesDiscover contemporary art and its global histories, models of practices, and practical and professional skills. You’ll learn the codes of good practice, health and safety, and sustainability in the studio, while producing and presenting artworks that develop your reflective and analytical skills. Expand your drawing competence and skill set as you discover a range of different methods, techniques, materials and tools, applying your enhanced proficiency to different contexts and subject specialisms. Introduction to Creative Writing Develop your skills in creative writing across a range of genres. You will develop an understanding of how to compose, criticise, revise, and polish your work through workshop discussions and the completion of a critical essay. Poetry in English From the Renaissance to the present, uncover the history of poetry as you explore key genres related to love, politics, pastoral, elegy, satire, the sonnet, the ode, and the dramatic monologue. You’ll study poems drawn from the wider English-speaking world including Ireland, the Caribbean and North America, encountering the diversity of voices found in gender and sexuality. Optional modulesIntroduction to Drama Discover the genre of drama as you explore a historical range of texts from the early modern periods. You’ll focus on four plays as you explore comedy, tragedy, form, structure, and the elements of change and continuity found within the genre. Modern American Culture and Counterculture Discover American countercultures in work, from 1950s Beat poetry to fiction responding to the Black Lives Matter movement. You’ll study the perspectives of African-American, Native American and white American creatives in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, YA fiction, science fiction, drama, songs, films, war reportage and the graphic novel. Become acquainted with English literature’s material dimension and how writers, both past and present, have depicted the library as a symbol. As you study, you'll interpret poems, novels and plays, and investigate books and other archival documents as physical objects. What is Comparative Literature? Learn about the major critical and theoretical issues in the study of Comparative Literature, as well as the important methodologies for studying literature in a comparative context. Approach a cluster of texts from different cultural and historical traditions, you'll be be encouraged to reflect on the practices and consequences of reading transnationally. Thinking Translation: History and Theory Learn about the current thinking on translation by exploring some specific case studies. The historical approach to translation will allow you to develop a critical awareness of the role played by: genres, readership, institutional influences, market constraints, gender attitudes and discourses, purpose. In seminars, you will explore the challenges facing translators when dealing with literary, scientific, philosophical and political texts These are the modules that we currently offer for 2024/2025 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the University of Reading. Compulsory ModulesArt studio 2. Learn to identify and investigate your own interests and concerns through practical engagement in the studio. You’ll develop your capacity for self-criticism through informed debate, as well as your confidence and the ability to present exhibitions. Creative Writing: PoetryEngage critically with a range of poems and key debates around form. You’ll write your own poetry in response, experimenting with the possibilities within the genre as you and your peers share constructive feedback. History of Art 3 Explore different forms of art writing, from criticism and visual analysis to interpretation and digital culture. You’ll consider how art history shapes our world and is shaped by our world, as you develop your research and communication skills and reflect critically on the different purposes of art writing. International Study Embark on a supervised study visit to a major European art centre where you’ll encounter and experience contemporary art and art history first hand. Your trip will incorporate major museums, galleries, and collections as you enhance your understanding of art history beyond an academic context. Recent visits have included Madrid, Berlin, Paris and Venice. Creative Writing: Non-fiction Study memoirs, essays, blog posts, long-form journalism, biography and auto-fiction as you explore the exciting and ever-evolving contemporary genre. As you study these texts, you’ll write your own piece of creative non-fiction and support others with creative feedback. Creative Writing: The Short Story Explore the process of the creative cycle, from reading literature to writing it. You’ll engage critically with a range of short stories as you encounter key debates about the form and write your own short fiction in response. Myth, Legend and Romance: Medieval Storytelling Explore storytelling in medieval England as you take in the fantastical tales of ancient heroes, drama that blends comedy and religious devotion, and magic and supernatural beings. You’ll consider the stark contrast of narrative structure, character development and language use by medieval writers in contrast to our own. Modernism in Poetry and Fiction Examine the concepts of modernity, modernism, and the history of early twentieth-century poetry and fiction. You’ll explore experimentation and innovation in poetic and narrative form, and their relation to wider social upheaval and cultural movements in the period. Contemporary Fiction Study a selection of fiction from the 1980s to the present day, exploring the formal, thematic and cultural diversity of Anglophone fiction produced in this period. You’ll consider these texts within a number of social, political and historical contexts, such as multiculturalism, feminism and globalisation. Writing in the Public Sphere Study literature designed to prompt social and political change as you examine speeches, pamphlets, tracts and political posters from the early modern period to the present. Consider how such literature shapes debates on race, class, religion, nationality and women’s rights across Britain and Ireland. Critical Thinking Approach familiar ideas and issues from unfamiliar angles that prompt you to re-examine the unspoken grounds on which common-sense ways of thinking are based. You’ll take part in exciting and rewarding discussions on issues of language, power, and identity, ideology, gender, and race. Early Modern Literature Discover the rich and fascinating literary culture of the early modern or Renaissance period. You'll explore the ways that English literature was shaped by, and helped to re-shape, English culture in the years between the Reformation and the Civil Wars. The Business of Books You'll cover the history and development of modern trade publishing and have focused sessions on some of its key players, including publishers and literary agents. Through a combination of theoretical, methodological, and hands-on teaching sessions and workshops, you'll study the role and function of books in historical and institutional contexts including libraries, bookshops, publishing houses, and board rooms. Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation Examine the construction of American national identity in American literature from a range of different perspectives. You’ll study a diversity of American voices and central themes including myths of the frontier, Manifest Destiny, personal and political liberty, and the construction of race, gender and sexuality. Victorian LiteratureVictorian literature consists of a period where authors began to consider people’s place in the world with God, the workings of the mind, and the role of class and gender in the construction of identity. You’ll engage with these ideas as you consider some of the greatest works of the period – from Dickens and Hardy to Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Enlightenment Revolution and RomanticismStudy the political revolutions that shook British society to its core during Age of Enlightenment (c.1680-1790): England’s bloodless ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688; the colonial revolution of American independence; and the French Revolution of 1789. Art Studio 2bLearn to identify and investigate your own interests and concerns through practical engagement in the studio. You'll develop your capacity for self-criticism through informed debate, as well as your confidence and ability to present exhibitions. Situated Art PracticeShape your understanding of the global and historical diversity of models in artistic practices. You’ll realise your active role as an artist in shaping and being shaped by the world as you apply key research methods and present your material an appropriate format. Creative Writing Master Class: Poetry Develop and design a short collection of poems with a view to submit to print or an online magazine. Engage with weekly workshops as you elaborate your style and voice, alongside focusing on emerging voices and subject matter. British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the PresentExamine a range of British texts (poetry, drama, novels, short stories, films) by writers of Black and Asian descent. You’ll read theoretical and historical material as you examine issues of cultural capital, national identity, and minority communities. From Romance to Fantasy Explore the role played by fantastical or wondrous elements in English literature from the middle ages to the present day. Focus on a range of key narrative structures (such as the quest), persistent motifs such as magical objects, and influential modes, such as the gothic. Creative Writing Master Class: ProseDeepen your understanding of narrative techniques and sharpen your ability to write prose. You’ll use a range of short stories, narrative non-fiction and novel extracts as a springboard, advancing your knowledge on matters such as structure, characterisation, dialogue and quality. Literature and Mental HealthDiscover how literature engaged with mental health in the first half of the twentieth century, a crucial turning point in psychology. You’ll consider the de-stigmatisation of mental health in the wake of World War I, the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology that emerged from it, and how literature engages with trauma, anxiety and obsession. Children's LiteratureExplore issues surrounding children’s literature and its criticism. Questions and analyse critical assumptions and formulations around authorship, memory, observation, readership, and identity. The Bloody StageExplore the representation of revenge and death in revenge tragedies performed on the Renaissance stage. Analyse the staging of death scenes and whether there are differences in the ways that men and women die on stage. Placing Jane AustenExamine the movements of Austen’s characters through rooms and houses, the patterns of their dances in assembly halls, the paths of their journeys through town and country. Investigate how these movements sometimes represent changes of heart or class, of mind or fortune and how they are always significant for the carefully drawn lines of her narratives. Writing Women: Nineteenth Century PoetryExplore writing primarily by (but also about) women in the nineteenth century, including Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh. Ask how women found a voice in a predominantly patriarchal society, what subjects were deemed suitable for female poets, and how such poets overcame the limitations of expectation. James JoyceTrace the literary development of one of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century through an intensive study of Joyce's experimental and influential novel Ulysses, and get an introduction to what is arguably the most challenging and wonderful book of the Twentieth Century, Finnegans Wake . Virginia WoolfDiscover the works of the ‘founding mother’ of classic literary feminism and connect her writing with our own era’s struggles, controversies and debates. You’ll explore how contemporary Woolf’s stance is within the women’s autonomy debate, while also examining the controversial aspects of her writing. Environment, Ecology and LiteratureInvestigate British writing about ecology, the environment, and rural life, from the Romantic Period (c.1800) to the present day. Study classic texts on the theory and science of climate change, sustainability, 'the wild', regenerative agriculture, and biodiversity. Hands-on work with The Museum of English Rural Life's object collections will help you consider the connections material culture provides with our receding rural heritage. Modern and Contemporary British PoetryStudy key trends in poetry's engagement with changing circumstances in England, Wales, and Scotland in the twentieth century and beyond. Consider issues including the aftermaths of modernism, gender and poetry, British poetry and post-war retrenchment, the 'poetry wars' of the 1970s and the perpetuation of 'Movement' ideals down to the present. Lyric Voices, 1340-1650Explore lyric poetry from the Middle Ages and the renaissance. You’ll look at the presentation of themes such as love and longing, grief, and the fear of death, and compare the ways in which authors make use of literary conventions to present such themes. Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890sEngage with iconic texts in English literature, including Stoker's Dracula, Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, while exploring what's meant by these terms 'decadence' and 'degeneration', calling, amongst many other things, on portrayals of 1890s' foppishness, Darwinian models of evolution, the emergent New Woman phenomenon, the Wilde trial, and the portrayal of prostitution. Art Studio 3bChallenge yourself by developing an independent, creative and critically informed art practice as you advance your own interests and concerns through practical engagement in the studio. Expand your research skills in relation to your individual art practice, and in the understanding of both historical and contemporary practices of art. Dissertation for Art and Creative Writing: Joint Honours StudentsDevelop a sustained piece of independent writing such as a short story, a play, a screen play or a collection of verse. You’ll work closely with a peer community of creative writers to self-organise and conduct workshops as you develop your advanced research and writing skills. New UK/Republic of Ireland students: £9,250 New international students: £25,250 UK/Republic of Ireland fee changesUK/Republic of Ireland undergraduate tuition fees are regulated by the UK government. These fees are subject to parliamentary approval and any decision on raising the tuition fees cap for new UK students would require the formal approval of both Houses of Parliament before it becomes law. EU student feesWith effect from 1 August 2021, new EU students will pay international tuition fees. For exceptions, please read the UK government’s guidance for EU students . Additional costsSome courses will require additional payments for field trips and extra resources. You will also need to budget for your accommodation and living costs. See our information on living costs for more details. Financial support for your studiesYou may be eligible for a scholarship or bursary to help pay for your study. Students from the UK may also be eligible for a student loan to help cover these costs. See our fees and funding information for more information on what's available. Placement year fees If you spend a full year on placement, you will only pay 15% of your usual tuition fee for that year. For more information, please see our fees and funding pages or contact [email protected] . A degree in art and creative writing will prepare you to enter professions across the cultural field. For example, you could choose to work in: - museum and gallery education
- postproduction
- public relations.
You will enter the job market with practical experience and highly-developed research and communication skills. You will know how to access reliable information and present your findings in clear and persuasive language. These are valuable skills in today’s economy, where information and communication skills are vital. You will also have the critical and cultural awareness necessary for working in the public sector and the media. Some of our students decide to continue their studies at postgraduate level; others have successful careers in fields as diverse as law, business administration, web design, teaching, and journalism. Past art and literature graduates have gone on to work for employers such as: - Whitechapel Gallery
- The Burlington Magazine
- The Telegraph
- Oxford University Press
- Waterstones
- Cisco Systems
- Royal Mint.
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Develop your flair for writing, with expert guidance and support from published authors, with our MA Creative Writing programme, starting in 2024.
Creative writing can take many forms. Whether you write poetry, short stories, drama, or even creative non-fiction, it is a skill which underpins many creative and commercial roles. By undertaking postgraduate studies at the University of Reading, you will learn from award-winning authors and poets who will support, mentor, and challenge you to ...
Creative Writing. Take an active role in literature with a creative writing degree from the University of Reading. We offer a number of joint courses that pair creative writing with complementary subjects, including. film, theatre and television. No matter which course you choose, you will learn from prize-winning authors and visiting writers ...
Creative Writing. Take an active role in literature with a creative writing degree from the University of Reading. We offer a number of joint courses that pair creative writing with complementary subjects, including. film, theatre and television. No matter which course you choose, you will learn from prize-winning authors and visiting writers ...
Whether you write poetry, short stories, drama, or even creative non-fiction, it is a skill which underpins many creative and commercial roles. By undertaking postgraduate studies at the University of Reading, you will learn from award-winning authors and poets who will support, mentor, and challenge you to become a published writer.
About Develop your flair for writing, with expert guidance and support from published authors, with the MA Creative Writing programme at the University of Reading.
University of Reading The University of Reading offers more than 200 undergraduate courses in the arts, sciences, social sciences, humanities, and business. The majority of courses have a modular structure, so students can specialise in the areas that interest them most while developing core subject knowledge.
About This PhD Creative Writing programme at University of Reading can accommodate imaginative projects in any genre relating to the interests of writer-researchers in the Department of English Literature.
The vital presence of creative writing in the English Department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who teach our workshops. We offer courses each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing. Our workshops are small, usually no more than twelve students, and offer writers an opportunity to focus intensively on one genre.
The Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon is a two-year, fully-funded residency in which Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students concentrate in either poetry or fiction. The program emphasizes the workshop, integrating concentrated time for writing with craft seminars and individualized reading tutorials. Each year we invite six writers for our Reading Series: recently we've hosted ...
The program allows undergraduates to work with practicing writers to develop their writing skills, learn the possibilities of modern poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting and translation, and gain a special access to the critical understanding of literature through their involvement in the creative process.
English Literature and Creative Writing are a perfect combination at degree level. English Literature introduces you to important, exciting, diverse writers from across the centuries and the globe, and Creative Writing allows you to explore literary creativity from the inside: creating characters, shaping poems, and drawing on your imagination.
The undergraduate Creative Writing major at the University of Illinois, formerly known as the Rhetoric major, is one of the oldest of its kind in the country. Now in its seventh decade, the major combines small workshops (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) and a variety of literature courses. The result is a strong but flexible program of study that ...
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Within our two-year residency program, MFA students concentrate in either poetry or fiction. Our coursework emphasizes the workshop, integrating concentrated time for writing with craft seminars and individualized reading tutorials. MFA Requirements Courses Join Our Community of Writers "With talented students and generous faculty, the University of ...
Austin Crowley, MSc in Creative Writing, 2023. We team teach our programme so that you benefit from the input of a range of tutors, as well as your fellow students and our Writer in Residence, the poet and author Michael Pedersen, who also co-ordinates a range of student writing prizes and our annual industry and networking event.
This free course, Creative writing and critical reading, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer's development at the postgraduate level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers' methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. Examples will cover the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and scriptwriting.
The Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon is a two-year residency in which Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students concentrate in either poetry or fiction. The Program emphasizes the workshop, integrating concentrated time for writing with craft seminars and individualized reading tutorials.
The literature and creative writing student takes 64 units in all, 32 in literature, 24 in creative writing workshops and seminars and 8 units of dissertation studies credits.
Develop and hone your creative writing while building a breadth of film knowledge and analytical skills with our BA Creative Writing and Film course, starting in September 2025.
Bachelor of Arts. Reading and Analysis: Through coursework and in consultation with their advisors, creative writers encounter a wide range of literature. They are able to raise and engage questions of justice, value, and meaning raised by literary texts, and understand how texts can produce multiple readings. Invention and Craft: Through their ...
Christina is now working at work on two different projects, Literature and the Working Day, a study of the way that the novel has reflected and complimented working life since the 1700s, and Paid Leaves: Writing a Life Around 1968, which explores the sponsorship of life writing by state and social policy at that moment in the US and the UK. She ...
This free course, Creative writing and critical reading, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer's development at the postgraduate (MA) level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers' methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. A diverse range of examples will cover the genres ...
The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their "original intent" as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there's a "peasants and lords issue" in the program. Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the "red wedding" in Game of Thrones—a massacre of ...
Year 1: you will study Introduction to Creative Writing. Year 2: the current options include Creative Non-Fiction and Long-Form Journalism, Poetry, The Short Story and Voice. Year 3: you can take our two Creative Writing masterclass modules in Prose and Poetry. These advanced modules encourage you to read and discuss very recently published ...
Degrees and GPA Requirements Bachelors degree: All graduate applicants must hold an earned baccalaureate from a regionally accredited college or university or the recognized equivalent from an international institution. Masters degree: This program requires a masters degree as well as the baccalaureate. University GPA requirement: The minimum grade point average for admission consideration for ...
The Creative Writing Minor. The cross disciplinary minor in creative writing is designed to encourage students to develop their writing talents across a number of literary forms and communication contexts. Course offerings in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, scriptwriting, screen and playwriting give students the opportunity to shape the ...
Develop as an artist, curator and writer with the University's BA Art and Creative Writing programme, starting in September 2025.