BA English Literature and Creative Writing
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students may take an optional year abroad or industry placement. A guided independent project in the final year allows work to take the form of a dissertation, creative writing portfolio, or published book.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 120 tariff points - typically H5 H6 H6 or equivalent.
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What students say
Based on about 13 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 85%
- Learning opportunities: 80%
- Assessment and feedback: 77%
- Academic support: 86%
- Organisation and management: 89%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 73%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 30 students who started
- Continued on course: 90%
- Gained a higher qualification: 5%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 12 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 80%
- Working and studying: 15%
Most common jobs
- Sales occupations: 35%
- Protective service occupations: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 5%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 35%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 25%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 360 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 2%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 2%
- East of England: 17%
- London: 29%
- South East: 40%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 1%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 40 students who started
- A levels: 85%
- Other HE qualification: 10%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Changing Literatures
- Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures
- Adventures in Criticism
- Creative and Critical Conversations
- Becoming a Writer
- Class: Narratives of Exclusion and Belonging
- American Power, American Protest
- Approaching Poetry
- Writing Fiction
- Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action
- 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, 1350-1700
- Modernism
- Reading Victorian Literature
- The Contemporary
- When Novels Were Novel: Eighteenth-Century Literature
- The Project
- 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, 1945-2015
- 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, 1880-1920
- The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction
- Utter Lyric
- Virginia Woolf and the Novel
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature and Creative Writing at University of Kent earn?
The median salary is £27,000 after 15 months, £24,000 after 3 years, £30,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £36,000. The £30,000 median after five years is £2,000 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English Literature and Creative Writing at University of Kent do next?
95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Literature and Creative Writing at University of Kent?
85% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Literature and Creative Writing at University of Kent?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 115 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature and Creative Writing at University of Kent?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.