BA Creative Writing and English
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC including English Literature, English Language, English Language and Literature, Creative Writing or Drama at grade B or C. IB: 28 points with English Higher at 4.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Design & Creative Practice. The programme offers an optional work placement module and culminates in a supervised dissertation combining creative writing with a critical essay.
Modules
- Literature Now: Reading and Writing Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Conflicts and Controversies in Victorian Literature: Charlotte Brontë to Charles Dickens
- Subverting the Subject: Ideas in Literature from Barthes to Gaming
- Writing Back: Poetry, Image Voice
- Creative Non-Fiction: Starting From The Self
- Experiments in Fiction: Detection, Sci Fi, Magical Realism and Beyond
- Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries
- Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- Reenchanting ‘the West’: Learning from Myth and Sacred Texts
- American Visions: Modern and Contemporary American Writing
- Fairy Tales: From Early Modern to Postmodern
- Work Placement
- Fiction: Stories in Motion
- English and Creative Writing Dissertation
- Gothic Women’s Writing
- Unconscious Desires: Psychoanalysis and Culture From Freud to Žižek
- Writing the Novel
- Digital Writing: Writing for the Community of Strangers
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Fantasy Writing: Origins and Development
- European Literary Legacies: Writing the City