富有创造力的作家通常会成为最好的批评家，因为富有想象力的创作实践需要形成批判性解释基础的风格和技术知识。核心的创意写作模块不仅是展示富有想象力的探索的机会，而且还使学生能够反思自己的写作过程。鼓励与处理广泛文学作品所需的分析技能建立联系，并且在某些模块中，创意和批评可以轻松地组合在一起，以便我们评估学生的成就和理论意识。创意项目可以持续两年到三年，因此学生可以在手稿的准备和网站创建方面获得经验和指导（以帮助宣传作者的作品）。
Our English with Creative Writing degree allows students to focus on creating their own texts, alongside studying the work of other writers. This degree offers great flexibility through its mixture of optional and compulsory modules in creative writing, literary history and the study of language, allowing you to tailor the course to suit your interests. Just as our academic staff are recognised for their expertise in areas such as contemporary poetry and theory, playwriting, culture and communication, and literature, your creative writing lecturers are practitioners in poetry, fiction and life-writing. Their knowledge of these subject areas and enthusiasm for their research and teaching make this a vibrant and supportive place for you to study, a place where you can learn the many different skills you will need, including transferable skills for your future employment. The curriculum for our English with Creative Writing degree offers you the freedom to tailor the course to your interests - covering creative writing, literature and language within a broad range of fields and approaches, providing a stimulating environment for your degree work. You will have the opportunity to study all of the major genres of creative writing (poetry and prose), and will be encouraged to reflect analytically and critically on their developing practice as writers. You will also be required to undertake a major piece of creative writing as part of your dissertation in your final year.