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BA English Literature with Creative Writing

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English language and literature
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
QW11
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)

About this course

BA in English Language and Literature and Creative Writing. The programme includes a final-year creative writing project, modules on film and visual culture, and coverage of Shakespeare, medieval, Victorian, and twentieth-century literature. Specialised writing options are available in fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and scriptwriting.

Modules

  • Transforming Visions: Text and Image
  • Reading Up Close
  • Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
  • Creative Writing I
  • Creative Writing II
  • Writing at University and Beyond
  • Shakespeare's Worlds
  • Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
  • Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
  • Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
  • Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
  • Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
  • Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
  • Feminisms
  • Literature, Science and Environment
  • Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
  • Race, Empire, Nation
  • A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
  • Creative Writing: Experiments in Fiction
  • Creative Writing: Poetry: Craft and Construction
  • Creative Writing: Screenwriting
  • Creative Writing: Writing Genre Fiction
  • Creative Writing: Storytelling in a Digital World
  • Creative Writing Project
  • Literature for All
  • Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfnod
  • Llenyddiaeth Plant
  • Stori Pwy? Cyfathrebu Cymru
  • Literature and Science
  • Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
  • Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
  • American Poetry after Modernism
  • John Milton
  • Apocalypse Then and Now
  • Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
  • Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
  • Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
  • Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
  • Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
  • The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
  • Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
  • 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
  • Cinema Across Asia
  • Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
  • Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound