MA English with Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
An MA in English and English Literature with Creative Writing, blending literary study with writing craft. Core topics include Laboratory Techniques, Research Methods, and Communication & Writing. Students complete an extended folio dissertation of creative work in either poetry or prose.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- Power, Empire and Equality
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL35YB)
- Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
- Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
- Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
- Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
- Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
- American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Romanticism (EL30XR)
- Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL35VC)
- Creative Writing Folio Dissertation
- Creative Writing: the Essential Skills (EL40PB)
- Screenwriting: the Narrative Within the Frame (EL45TM)
- Brief Encounters (EL40TL)