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Full time | John Anderson Campus | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MLitt - Master of Letters

Subject areas

Creative Writing

Course Summary

This course is designed across three semesters, with each class intended to develop not just the skills aspiring writers need, but the right skills at the right stage in their development. The structure of the MLitt gives writers the freedom to pursue their chosen forms and genres in terms of their creative work, while providing guidance and support in an academic context too. The staff team aim for a collegiate, supportive atmosphere – we arent just a writing course, were a writing community.

Strathclyde staff can offer specialist tuition in a wide range of genres including:

contemporary fiction & non-fiction
historical fiction & fiction for young adults
screenwriting
poetry
Careers
Graduates from creative writing subjects at the University of Strathclyde have gone into writing, publishing, teaching, journalism and may other professions. Some graduates have also gone on to further their skills by undertaking a PhD. Other have chosen to become self-employed as tutors.

Writers who have taken masters and/or doctoral qualifications in creative writing at Strathclyde include Louise Welsh, Rachel Sieffert, Beatrice Colin and Colette Paul.

Modules

Creative Writing Workshops - Core
Skills Workshops - Core
1500 to the Present, Contemporary Scottish Cultural Studies - Optional
Cultures, and Media - Optional
Global Queers: Travel Writing and Sexual Politics - Optional
Introduction to Intercultural Communication - Optional
Making and Unmaking British Literature 1880-1950 - Optional

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£9,550

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£21,550

Entry requirements

An upper second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in any subject, plus a portfolio of creative writing.

The submission of a satisfactory entry portfolio of creative writing. This should consist of one of the following:

2,000 words of prose (fiction or creative non-fiction)
up to 10 poems (no more than 40 lines in length)
the page equivalent of a short, fifteen-minute play
an outline of creative work you might develop in the course of the degree, possibly in the context of the dissertation (no more than two A4 pages)

University information

The University of Strathclyde is a leading international technological university which offers a diverse range of postgraduate course options. With over 30,000 students from over 140 countries, it has a vibrant and international learning community. Innovative research is at the heart of everything that they do, with almost 90 % of the university’s research rated ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in the most recent Research...more

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