BA English & Creative Writing

Institution

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Level

undergraduate

Subject

English & Creative Writing

Duration

3 years full time. 4 years full time if undertaking foundation year. 6 years part time.

UCAS code

XEC2

Typical offer

A-level CCC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff: 104 A level: Minimum three A levels to include grades CCC. No specific subjects required. Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as a third subject. BTEC/Cambridge Technical: MMM IB: No specific subjects required.

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include research methods. Students can choose between a year-long dissertation or two taught CONNECT modules in the final year. A work placement module allows students to pursue external placements in areas such as archiving, copywriting and reviewing.

Modules

• Reading Literature
• Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Stories Matter: Plot, Character & Beyond
• Sex, Death and Everything in Between: Writing Poetry
• Critical Approaches
• Say it Out Loud: Writing for Audiences
• Romantic and Victorian Literature
• Make it New Modernist Literature and Culture
• Urban and Contemporary
• Ghosts in the Machine: Writing Immersive and Chaotic Selves
• Imaginary World and Possible Futures
• The Professional Critic and Creative: Work Placement
• Hyper-contemporary Literature and the Book Prize
• Narratives of Place and Belonging
• Fact or Artful Enterprise
• Publishing and Digital Humanities
• CONNECT
• Dissertation
• The Major Project: Exploring Big Issues
• Writing for Wellbeing