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English in a Flash: Creative Writing of Short-Short Texts

Each spring semester CIP offers a course in "Creative Writing" in cooperation with Open University. The target audience for the course is both students and participants from outside the university.

The course is offered in the spring semester of 2024. 

When registering through Open University the price will be DKK 7,500. You can read more about registration and prices at the website for Open University (Danish version) .

If you, as a student, have the 15 ECTS to spare, you can also register for free by choosing the course as an elective course.

If you have questions regarding the course, please contact us at  [email protected] . Please state your UCPH username when contacting us. 

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Creative writing courses in the Nordics

Courses ranging from evening classes and short, focussed courses to full-time university programmes reflect a broad interest in studying creative writing in the Nordic countries.

Interest in creative writing has grown rapidly in the Nordic countries since 2000, and today a large selection of courses are available. Several universities offer two-year, full-time courses in advanced creative writing, and some folk high schools offer reputable one-year courses. At a less intensive level, there is a large number of public and private institutions which offer part-time courses in creative writing in the evenings, at weekends or during the summer. These courses usually specialise in specific genres, e.g. poetry or short stories, and are sometimes aimed at particular sectors of the general public, e.g. teenagers or the partially sighted.

Generally speaking, students on short courses participate with the sole intention of learning to express themselves more effectively. Students taking university courses, on the other hand, often become professional writers. Full-time programmes give these students the opportunity to practise their art, and are in this respect similar to the established tradition among students of music, theatre and the visual arts.

Litterär gestaltning , at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen are two of Scandinavia’s most prestigious creative writing courses, where some of the students have been published before starting and well-known authors are among their lecturers. Lund University, Sweden, offers a Master’s degree in creative writing. Forfatterstudiet in Bø, Norway, offers a one-year course. Aschehoug, one of the largest publishing houses in Norway, have their own writing school, although some critics have expressed concern that these students may be trained in a style designed to suit Aschehoug’s particular publishing ethos. In Finland, Työväen Akatemia (Worker’s Academy) offers a one-year course in collaboration with Oxford’s Ruskin College, and Åbo Akademi University offers a two-year course.

Publishing houses report that the booming interest in creative writing has increased the number of scripts they are receiving and the quality of writing generally.

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What is a Master's degree?

A master's program, also called a master's degree, is an independent 2-year supplementary education to the 3-year bachelor's degree. A master's program corresponds to 120 ECTS credits.

While a bachelor's degree offers a range of foundational subjects, a master's degree provides you with a higher degree of specialization, where you expand your knowledge and skills from the bachelor's program. A master's program typically combines a number of compulsory courses, elective courses, and notably a final thesis.

With the thesis, you have the opportunity to delve deeply into a self-chosen topic, demonstrating your ability to apply the knowledge you have gained throughout your education.

Best Universities for Creative Writing in the World

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in the World ranked based on their research performance in Creative Writing. A graph of 3.39M citations received by 403K academic papers made by 1,501 universities in the World was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

Please note that our approach to subject rankings is based on scientific outputs and heavily biased on art-related topics towards institutions with computer science research profiles.

1. University of Toronto

For Creative Writing

2. University of Oxford

3. University College London

4. Columbia University

5. University of Cambridge

6. King's College London

7. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

8. University of British Columbia

9. University of Texas at Austin

10. Stanford University

11. University of Manchester

12. University of California - Berkeley

13. University of Alberta

14. Yale University

15. Pennsylvania State University

16. Ohio State University

17. University of Southern California

18. New York University

19. University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

20. University of Edinburgh

21. University of Wisconsin - Madison

22. University of Exeter

23. University of Chicago

24. University of California - Los Angeles

25. University of Sydney

26. Arizona State University - Tempe

27. Cornell University

28. Harvard University

29. University of Sheffield

30. University of Melbourne

31. University of Birmingham

32. University of Nottingham

33. University of Leeds

34. McGill University

35. University of Pennsylvania

36. University of Washington - Seattle

37. University of Virginia

38. Monash University

39. Emory University

40. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

41. University of Bristol

42. University of Maryland - College Park

43. University of Queensland

44. Lancaster University

45. York University

46. University of Arizona

47. Durham University

48. Princeton University

49. University of York

50. University of Warwick

51. Michigan State University

52. University of Glasgow

53. University of South Florida

54. University of California - Santa Barbara

55. University of Auckland

56. University of Calgary

57. Rutgers University - New Brunswick

58. University of Amsterdam

59. Boston College

60. Cardiff University

61. University of Sussex

62. University of California - Irvine

63. University of London

64. University of Illinois at Chicago

65. London School of Economics and Political Science

66. Tel Aviv University

67. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

68. Catholic University of Leuven

69. University of Haifa

70. Aarhus University

71. Florida State University

72. University of Southampton

73. Queen Mary University of London

74. University of Oslo

75. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

76. University of St Andrews

77. University of Pittsburgh

78. University of Victoria

79. Lund University

80. University of New South Wales

81. University of California - Santa Cruz

82. Royal Holloway, University of London

83. University of Liverpool

84. University of Helsinki

85. University of Notre Dame

86. Temple University

87. Northwestern University

88. Education University of Hong Kong

89. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

90. University of Florida

91. Vanderbilt University

92. University of Waikato

93. Griffith University

94. Newcastle University

95. University of Copenhagen

96. Macquarie University

97. Carnegie Mellon University

98. Georgetown University

99. Boston University

100. University of California-San Diego

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