Overview
If you take this English Literature course at Bangor University you will experience:
- One-to-one teaching and supervision by established writers and academics.
- The opportunity to develop your own specific interests, working in the genre and style of your choice.
- The flexibility to study on a full or part-time basis.
- The opportunity to develop an awareness of your own writing and writing processes through combining creative and critical work, preparing you for a future career in writing or as an academic.
Careers
- This course prepares you for a career in higher education, as well as in publishing, arts administration, media research, and a range of related careers. This course fully prepares you for a future career as a writer and as an academic.
- Students also have the opportunity to follow a range of training programmes offered through the University that significantly enhance their chances of finding work in the field of their choice.
- A number of recent or existing creative writing students have successfully published collections of poems or short stories that have arisen from their studies here at Bangor.
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Programme Structure
Areas of staff research expertise include:
- Arthurian literature
- medieval and early modern women’s writing
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Romanticism (especially Hazlitt and his contemporaries)
- Victorian literature (especially Dickens and Oscar Wilde)
- Welsh writing in English (especially R.S. Thomas)
- London-Welsh writing at the turn of the twentieth century
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
- Duolingo English Test: 120
- TOEFL® IBT: 85
- PTE Academic: 62
- IELTS: 6.5
Other requirements
General requirements
- A first class or a good second-class degree. In many cases PhD applicants have studied to MA level, though this is not compulsory. Students without an MA are required to follow the research training module offered by the school.
- We are able to accept some students on a distance-learning basis, but they should have already acquired the skills taught in the introductory seminars, or should make arrangements to attend equivalent seminars at another institution, at their own expense.
- Potential students should submit a writing sample of approximately 3,000 words with their application in the case of prose fiction, or a sample of ten poems.
Fees and funding
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in AUD and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
International
Non-residents: 35,238 AUD / year (≈ 18,500 GBP / year)
Domestic
Citizens or residents: 9,870 AUD / year (≈ 5,182 GBP / year)
Living costs
Bangor, United Kingdom: 1,257-2,171 AUD / month