Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Kent offers a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative Writing, a three-year full-time or six-year part-time program that allows students to explore the rich traditions of literature while developing their distinctive voice and style as writers.

Key Information

• Start: September 2026
• Location: Canterbury
• Study mode: 3 years full-time (4 with a year abroad/in industry), 6 years part-time (7 with a year abroad/in industry)
• Fees (per year): UK: TBC, International: £19,300
• Typical offer: BBB / 104-120 UCAS points

Course Structure

The program is divided into three stages, each with compulsory and optional modules.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules include:

• Changing Literatures
• Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures
• Adventures in Criticism
• Creative and Critical Conversations
• Becoming a Writer

Optional modules may include:

• Class: Narratives of Exclusion and Belonging
• American Power, American Protest

Stage 2

Compulsory modules include:

• Approaching Poetry
• Writing Fiction
• Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action

Optional modules may include:

• Shakespeare: Before and After
• World Literatures in English
• American Modernities: US Literature 1930 to the Present
• Becoming America: From Poe to The Great Gatsby
• Encounters with the Premodern
• Modernism
• Reading Victorian Literature
• The Contemporary
• When Novels Were Novel: Eighteenth-Century Literature

Stage 3

Compulsory modules include:

• The Project

Optional modules may include:

• A Woman’s Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe
• American Crime Fiction
• Animals, Humans, Writing
• Beginning to Write a Novel
• The Brontës in Context
• Centres and Edges: Modernist and Postcolonial Quest Literature
• Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
• The End of Empire: Post-Imperial Writing in Britain
• Foundations of Activism
• Global Capitalism and the Novel
• Innovation and Experiment in New York
• Magic, Marvels and Monsters in Medieval Literature
• Marlowe vs Shakespeare
• Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health
• Places, Journeys, Borders
• Queer Literature
• Representing World War Two
• #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics
• The End of the World
• The Gothic: Origins and Exhumations
• The Love Poem: Romantic Language from Thomas Wyatt to Taylor Swift
• The New Woman: First Wave Feminism and Women’s Writing
• The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction
• Utter Lyric
• Virginia Woolf and the Novel

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching and learning style: Lectures, seminars, writing workshops, tutorials, independent study, and workshops.
• Assessment methods: Varied across the course, including essays, projects, presentations, online discussion, and creation of digital content.

Entry Requirements

• Typical offer: 104-120 UCAS points
• A level: BBB
• BTEC Nationals: DMM
• International Baccalaureate: 120 tariff points
• English Language Requirements: Good level of English language, equivalent to B2 on CEFR

Fees and Funding

• Tuition fees for 2026 entry: TBC for UK students, £19,300 for international students
• Fees for year in industry: £1,905
• Fees for year abroad: £1,430

Your Future

Graduates from this course go on to a variety of creative and professional roles in fields such as journalism and media, marketing and public relations, creative and cultural industries, writing and publishing, education, business, charity sector, and law.

Why Study at Kent?

• The Canterbury Shakespeare Festival
• Canterbury’s literary history
• Pursue your passion for literature
• Learn from published authors and poets

Related Courses

• BA English Literature
• BA English Language and Literatures
• BA History

Additional Information

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