Your English and Creative Arts offer holder day

Characters: Situations, secrets and scenes

Everyone has a secret. In this practical session, you’ll be creating characters who find themselves in situations where those secrets have a vital role to play. This will be an engaging session that teaches you about characterisation, dialogue and interaction.

As you hold an offer for a joint honours degree programme, we recommend that you attend your Offer Holder Day on Saturday 20 April 2024. You’ll be able to attend a subject taster session for both subjects.

To find information about your Creative Writing subject taster session, select BA (Hons) Creative Writing. To find information about your English Literature subject taster session, select BA (Hons) English Literature.

As this programme incorporates both English Language and English Literature, you’ll have a choice of taster sessions. You can attend both subject taster sessions.

To find information about your English Language subject taster session, select BA (Hons) English Language.

To find information about your English Literature subject taster session, select BA (Hons) English Literature.

Language from afar: migrant contributions to English

English is itself the language of migrants from the northwest of continental Europe, and it has been absorbing elements from languages spoken by other immigrants to Britain since its very beginning.  We’ll see how words which have come from other languages have shaped our language, from the places we live or work in to the foods we eat.  We’ll see just how much English is indebted to the languages of people who came here in war and in peace over the centuries.

Vamps! Studying the literary vampire

This session offers a short, engaging lecture introduction to the history of the literary vampire. As well as a skills session on how to do excellent close reading and textual analysis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).

Attend a drop in session to meet your lecturers and get a feel for the course.

Attend a drop in session to meet your lecturers and get a feel for the course.

Attend a drop in session to meet your lecturers and get a feel for the course.

Understanding the principles of movement design within animation is key to developing an engaging and convincing animated film. During your workshop, you’ll begin to explore movement using the frame-to-frame process of animation.

Movement. Basic performance. Frame transition through the design of one frame set against another. These are the fundamental skills that you’ll begin to cover in your session which will become valuable throughout your studies.

This is an exciting opportunity to explore animation using simple and accessible means of production. You’ll discuss different approaches to applications of frame-to-frame process, from complex photographic or physical flipbooks to very basic, linear applications.

In this live session you’ll engage in a contemporary dance workshop that combines technical and creative tasks to develop your practice. You’ll also explore and discuss different global dance influences on current choreographers’ work. This will give you a taste of how you would work with your lecturers while studying dance at Edge Hill University. It’s also an opportunity for us to share with you our passion for dance.

And if you’d like more of an insight before you arrive, you can read about Edge Hill has helped graduate, Amy, to succeed.

Join our fun introduction to using play and games as ways of devising original contemporary performances. By participating in this workshop, you’ll get a taste of how drama exercises help you work with other students to create inclusive and innovative theatre.

Attend a drop in session to meet your lecturers and get a feel for the course.