BA English Literature and Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: Available to those who are studying for, or who have completed Level 3 qualifications (eg, A-Levels or BTEC diploma) and to mature-aged candidates without formal qualifications who have suitable background education, experience and motivation. IB: Available to those who are studying for, or who have completed Level 3 qualifications (eg, A-Levels or BTEC diploma) and to mature-aged candidates without formal qualifications who have suitable background education, experience and motivation.
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a foundation year and a final-year writing retreat at a country house in mid-Wales. Students have access to the National Library of Wales, which receives a copy of every book published in the UK.
Modules
- How to be a Student 1
- How to be a Student 2
- Information in a Post-Truth World
- Introduction to Humanities
- Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes
- The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives
- Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Adventures with Poetry
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing Selves
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- Place and Self
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Independent Research Project
- Crisis Writing
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- Poetry for today
- Writing Crime Fiction
- Writing Horror
- Writing and Place
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English