Program Description
About the course
Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope will give you the chance to experience the joys of crafting the written word. The degree focuses on developing you as a writer of poetry and prose (fiction and creative non-fiction), across the broad field of literature (poems, short stories, novels, reflective and critical essays). Professional writing - reviews, blogs and articles for different kinds of media - is also studied. Our focus on creativity and employability means you will be able to produce engaging, innovative and marketable texts.By studying Creative Writing, you will be empowered with an enhanced command of your craft, increased confidence in expressing your thoughts and emotions, an understanding of the values that inform your writing practice, and the technical skillset to deliver your work to various audiences. Your writing will be enhanced by studying under leading published writers and academics, and you will develop a range of workplace skills to prepare for fulfilling careers.The degree will often challenge you and ask you to reach beyond your own experience and interests into those of contemporary and historical communities. Using these as creative stimuli, you will be required to reflect upon social contexts, power, and how truth and justice can be communicated or miscommunicated through creative writing. By the end of the degree, you should have a wide appreciation of forms, genres and applications. Included in the degree are field trips which provide material for writing exercises as well as widening your student experience.
Course structure
Teaching on this degree is structured into lectures, in which lecturers provide you with information and you are asked to input your ideas, seminars, during which you carry out writing exercises, and tutorials, which in your first year typically have no more than 10 students.For the Creative Writing part of your degree, there will be approximately 6 teaching hours in your first year, approximately 6 teaching hours in your second year, and approximately 6 in your third year. On top of teaching hours, you are also expected to spend a minimum of 9 hours studying independently each week, as well as studying in groups to prepare for any group assessments you may have.
