Course summary

Foundation Year Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele. International Students For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/ English Literature and Creative Writing Is your imagination captured by the study of poetry and prose? Do you have the desire to develop your own creative skills in different forms, genres, and modes? Studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Keele will enable you to strengthen your literary analysis alongside your imaginative writing. You will develop these skills in tandem to find and hone your creative and critical voice. Why choose this course?

• Expand your ability to write in different forms and genres and develop your own individual voice as a writer

• Become a skilled analyst of literature of all kinds, from poetry to graphic novels to political speeches

• Work alongside published poets, novelists, and academics at the cutting edge of modern literary studies

• Enhance your career prospects and build key transferable skills through core modules and work placement opportunities

• Hear professional writers speak, and build your confidence through sharing your own work, at the regular Keele Hall Readings series of events