BA English and Digital Arts

The English and Creative Writing Undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway, University of London is offered on a full-time and part-time basis, with students having the opportunity to widen their understanding of critical theory, improvise their narrative voices, and cultivate their skills as writers while exploring a wide range of literary texts from different periods and cultures.Course Content: The course combines traditional lectures with a large amount of individual tuition and group workshops. Students will study contemporary literature in the first year as a foundation, and then build on it by studying literature from the medieval period to the present day. In the third year, the choice extends to literature from around the world. The creative writing component of the course focuses on fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing.Key Modules: Some of the key modules of this course include Making a World: From Beowulf to the Globe, Reorienting the Novel, Creative Writing: Poetry, Creative, Writing: Fiction, Creative Writing: Playwriting, Creative Writing: Longer Fiction, and the Writer's Art.Future Careers: Past students of this course have gone on to successful careers in fields such as writing, editing, publishing, teaching, public relations, marketing, and arts management. Royal Holloway also has a Careers and Employability Service dedicated to helping students build skills and plan for future professional endeavor.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.