2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English Literature with Creative Writing (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

- AAA at A Level including grade A in English (English Literature, English Language, or English Language & Literature) excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking

- International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level.

- Applications welcome from mature students with Access qualifications and from students with international or other non-A-level qualifications.

- IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of English

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of English

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

English Studies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-english.pdf

Creative Writing:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-creative-writing.pdf?sfvrsn=2fe2cb81_4

Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2023. For students who entered the programme before September 2023, you can find the details of your programme: BA English Literature with Creative Writing


Course Overview

The University of Leeds has an impressive and longstanding reputation in supporting Creative Writing. Throughout this course, you’ll explore richly diverse literary texts across different genres, including fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, and will see these in the context of a variety of historical periods, places and cultures. You’ll consider how and why these texts are produced, read, and understood and analyse the impact of their creativity and power. You’ll develop your skills as a critical reader, a clear thinker, and a creative writer.  Our modules explore themes relevant to how we live today, including race and ethnicity, gender, climate change and nature, social class, disability and wellbeing.  The School of English supports a vibrant community of researchers and creative practitioners. It is home to the Leeds Poetry Centre, and we regularly host readings and talks by well-known and emerging contemporary writers.  The School also produces a literary magazine, Stand, and publishes the best in new creative writing.

Course Details

This degree programme is designed to allow you to follow a balanced path in which your core literature and creative writing modules progress in tandem and in dialogue with each other. You will take core creative writing modules composed exclusively from the programme’s cohort of students. At the same time, you will enrol in our English Literature core modules. Intellectual and creative currents flowing between Creative Writing and English Literature core modules are further complemented by optional modules in English Language, English Literature, and Theatre Studies, as well as Discovery modules in Creative Writing offered in the Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC).

In addition to your creating writing modules at Level 1, you will take Reading Between the Lines and Writing Matters, introducing you to university-level study, equipping you to read critically and write with rigour and persuasion. You are also presented with a choice of optional modules focusing on Race, Writing and Decolonisation, poetry, fiction and drama. This allows you to meet undergraduates from our other degree programmes, discussing with them materials from a critical and literary tradition which will foster greater awareness of contexts in which your own creative work sits.

In addition to your creative writing core at Level 2, you will take two English Literature core modules, Writing Environments and Body Language. These modules explore two urgent contemporary challenges, the climate crisis and personal wellbeing, and will examine how these issues can be understood and expressed through literary texts. You will also select two further modules from a choice of several options, ranging historically and geographically from Medieval to Contemporary, and from Postcolonial to American.

Level 2 will deepen and enrich subject knowledge and intellectual skills, preparing you for more independent learning at Level 3, where you can select from a range of specialist research modules. A final year Creative Writing Project further enhances active research skills, enabling you to define, plan and produce work on a literary subject of your choosing.

After your second year of study, you may apply for transfer to an International Degree at one of a wide range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links. You may also spend a year in industry on a work placement as an optional third year of your degree programme.



At Level 3, all students will take a 40 credit capstone project appropriate to their degree progr amme. Alongside the capstone projects, students will be able to take 80 further credits of optional specialist modules (selection of typical options shown below).

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

At Level 1, candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules: 

Optional modules:

Basket 1: Candidates will be required to choose 1 module from the following optional modules: 

Basket 2: Candidates will be required to study 2 modules from the following optional modules. Alternatively, they may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of one or two of the option modules.

Discovery modules:

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

At Level 2, candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules: 

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 2 modules from the following optional modules, but may not choose 2 from the same basket:

Basket 1:

Basket 2:

Basket 3 (choices from this basket must not cause asymmetry in your credit loading between semesters):

Discovery modules:

L2 students may take 20 credits of discovery modules in place of one of the Basket modules.

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

At Level 3, all students will take a 40 credit capstone project appropriate to their degree programme. Alongside the capstone projects, students will be able to take 80 further credits of optional specialist modules (selection of typical options shown below).

Compulsory modules:

At Level 3, candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules: 

Optional modules:

L3 candidates will be required to study a further 80 credits of optional Specialist Modules in English or Creative Writing. They will take at least 40 credits in English Literature. They will select further modules up to 120 credits (a 40–80 split is permitted) and this may include 20 credits of Discovery. Up to four optional modules to be chosen from an indicative list:

Plus up to 20 credits of Discovery Modules

Discovery modules:

Candidates can select 0-20 credits of Discovery modules

Last updated: 11/05/2023 15:46:31

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