I'm Faye and I'm doing English Language with
Creative Writing. I'm from the area anyway
and I did look round a lot of other places,
but I just felt comfortable when I came to
Huddersfield, everyone was really welcoming
and its just a nice place to be. The course
is the theory of how people communicate, lots
of speech and written language and interaction.
And the creative writing side, you get to
explore different styles of writing, prose,
poetry and in second year we're doing screen
writing.
I like to hang out in West Building, the communal
areas there are really nice. You can just
sit and read your book and get a coffee. The
library is open twenty-four seven, so if you
need to cram in for your essay or anything
then that's good. You can get pretty much
any book you want but the online facilities
mean you can work from home as well so that's
really useful. The best thing about our faculty
is that all the tutors are willing to push
you in the direction you want to go in. I
had some feedback on an essay and I wanted
to go through it with a tutor, so he made
an appointment with me and we just sat and
went through all of the essays together and
he sort of, said, this is where you could
improve and this is what you're doing right.
They really will make time for you in their
spare time as well as the contact hours.
This year we're doing Writing Beyond the Page
which is a module about writing for radio,
screen, films, theatre. All of the books that
we use on the courses, they've written, they're
sort of experts in their field so you know
they know what they're talking about. In second
year they've just made a new module called
Language in the Work Place and you fit a work
placement around your uni year, you do it
all throughout the year. You do a piece of
research in that placement to try and get
experience of applying what you've learnt
throughout the year.
It's a good balance, we do coursework sort
of in January, and then again at the end of
the year. And then there's exams following
that so you've got time to prepare yourself
for both. I'd say it's a great course to do,
there's a lot of different modules so there's
something for everyone on the course really.
