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Creative Writing – (M.Litt.)
University of Stirling
English Studies| Application Deadline: | Autumn Semester 2011 - 1 April 2011; | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,000 - ≈ € 10,800 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Stirling / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Stirling
Our MLitt provides a year-long, non-teaching alternative to the American originating MFA award.
The MLitt in Creative Writing offers the opportunity to produce a body of work – poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction – over the course of a creative and stimulating year. The degree combines intensive writers’ workshops, technique-focused option modules, and one-to-one tuition by the distinguished writers on staff and external mentors.
The programme is designed to develop the talents of creative individuals, allowing them to focus in-depth on a project while offering them creative encounters with a range of genres and working practices, drawing on Stirling’s rich expertise in contemporary literature, publishing, film, media, and journalism.
The Mlitt in Creative Writing can also act as a step toward doctorial study, for example a PhD in Creative Writing.
Contents
MLitt / MFA Structure and Content The teaching year at Stirling is divided into two semesters, which run from mid-September to late December, and from mid-February to the end of May.
In both the autumn and spring semesters, all full-time students take the core module, the Writer’s Workshop. In this core module, students read and discuss peer work and present their own creative work for discussion. Part-time students will take the Writer’s Workshop in the autumn semester of their first year and spring semester of their second year.
Students will also take two option modules, drawn from a changing list. Options may be genre-based (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, screenwriting); explore approaches – for example, writing about nature, or writing for young adults; or investigate practical skills like editing fiction and scripts. Details of the modules for the next academic year will be posted on the creative writing web site.
Full-time students will take one option per semester; part-time students will take one in the spring semester of their first year and one in the autumn semester of their second year.
In addition, all students will take a module over both semesters (in the spring semesters for part-time students) on Research Methods. This two-semester module is offered to all post-graduate students in the Arts and Humanities, and will include seminars – in publishing, creative pedagogy, archival research, and professional writing, among others – specifically tailored to creative writing students.
Delivery and assessment
Assessment for the workshops will depend on the literary form chosen (prose or poetry) but will be based on reading journals and/or working notebooks, book reviews and in some cases completed pieces of work.
Assessment for each option module will likewise vary but may include a critical essay, a journal, a revised collection of writing exercises, presentations, or a short project.
The most significant piece of work in the programme is the creative dissertation, due at the end of the summer. This will be 20,000 words of prose or a collection of 15-20 poems. Students work towards this dissertation all year, not simply in the summer, and will have the opportunity to workshop elements of the dissertation throughout both semesters. A dissertation may be a portfolio of shorter texts – stories, personal essays, poems – or part of a novel. It’s expected to be revised and polished original work, written and presented to professional standards.
Those who do not embark on the dissertation may be awarded a Diploma. The work of the best students completing the programme may be deemed worthy of an MLitt with Distinction.
Timetable
Contact English Studies for information on your timetable and reading lists
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Entrance requirements
An upper second class or better single or combined Honours degree in a relevant subject or subjects from a UK university or an equivalent qualification. Applicants with other qualifications or other appropriate experience may be admitted on the recommendation of the Programme Director.
English Language Requirements
If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence of your proficiency such as a minimum IELTS score of 6 (minimum 5.5 in each skill), or TOEFL: Listening 21, Reading 22, Speaking 23, Writing 21.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
Accreditation
Over half of our submissions in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) were found to be ‘Internationally Excellent’ or ‘World-leading’.
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You can contact Professor Kathleen Jamie to ask a question about Creative Writing at University of Stirling.
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