English is a subject that will always be relevant, as it can be applied to all aspects of working life and is crucial to gaining context on everyday situations. Whether you want to screen write plays, teach English as a foreign language, or become a recognised novelist, read on to see how our courses can help you towards all of these goals and more.
Creative Writing
Key Modules:
- Voices of Birmingham
- Digital Storytelling
- Writing Short Stories
Develop into a contemporary creative writer across a variety of forms, genres, and platforms, including prose fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, screenwriting, audio drama, podcasting, and digital media. The course provides time, space, and support for you to explore ideas, develop confidence and versatility in your voice, and produce original, impactful work so that you leave with the skills, confidence, connections and professional-level portfolio you need to succeed when you graduate.
English and Creative Writing
Key Modules:
- Craft of Writing
- Prose Writing
- Writing Poetry
This course balances the practical craft of creative writing with the analytical and historical study of literature and/or language, allowing you to explore how texts are written, interpreted, and transformed across different forms and periods. Benefitting from innovative teaching and assessments, you will graduate with a portfolio of work that demonstrates your creative abilities, and skills in criticism and evaluation that can be applied to a wide range of careers
English and Journalism
Key Modules:
- Telling Stories with Journalism
- Digital Reporting
- Media Law in Practice
This course is ideal if you wish to follow a career in the dynamic and fascinating world of journalism. It develops your critical appreciation skills to analyse texts, conduct research, and construct arguments, while gaining valuable experience working on live stories in media environments, which will teach you how to craft a story in a way that engages the audience. Combining study of subjects, you will develop the skills to become a thinking media worker, benefitting from subject knowledge and transferable skills from both disciplines.
English Language and Literature
Key modules:
- Grammar and Style
- Language in Society
- Applied Sociolinguistics
With an emphasis on the precise analysis of language, its structures, and effects, this course develops you as a reader of texts and critical concepts. Discover how language operates in society, media, internet, politics, health, and education through a technical, applied English understanding, from sounds to persuasion, supporting your literary text analysis. By the time you graduate you will develop a range of technical, critical and creative skills that make you a real asset to a huge range of professions.
English Literature
Key Modules:
- Literature and Conflict
- Writing and the Environment
- The Romantics
Explore key English literature works, from classics and Shakespeare to Romantic poetry, Gothic tales, Victorian novels, and modern writing. The course covers literary changes across periods and themes like environment, gender, sexuality and culture. We embrace a range of perspectives available to literary studies, including history, philosophy, film, sociology, cultural studies and psychology, to enrich your insights and abilities, and assess you in an applied, creative way, ensuring you graduate with the skills needed by employers.
English and Creative Writing at BCU
An English degree can open up a whole world of possibilities, from drama and screenwriting, to fast-track graduate schemes and presenting on the radio.
