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BA English and Creative and Professional Writing

University of Derby

Institution
University of Derby
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and Creative and Professional Writing
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
Q31C
Typical offer
A-level BBC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff: 112 A level: BBC (At least a grade C in English or related subject (or equivalent qualification) T Level: Merit BTEC: DMM GCSE: GCSE Maths and English Grade 4/Grade C (or above) or equivalent qualification Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 15, Merit: 24, Pass: 6. Must include passes in compulsory Level 3 subjects English language: IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics and English Literature and Creative Writing. Core topics include research methods, data analysis, and entrepreneurship. The programme includes an optional placement year between the second and final stage, and a final-year independent research project extending over two semesters. Optional modules cover themes including crime, fantasy, gender and society.

Modules

  • Placement Learning and Professional Development
  • Theorising Literature and Meaning (PDP)
  • Mutants and Monsters: Interpreting Fantasy
  • Shakespeare and Early Modernity
  • Introduction to Creative Writing and Publishing
  • The Story
  • The Workshop
  • Literature, Identity and The Real
  • Modernism
  • Nineteenth-Century Realism: Conscience and Context
  • Poetry and Revolution in the British Romantic Period
  • The English Conference
  • Research in Practice
  • Language and the Poetic 1
  • Copy-editing for Writers and Editors
  • Writing and Publishing Non-fiction
  • Short Fiction
  • Power, Passion and Persuasion
  • Writing and Publishing for Children and Young Adults
  • Reading the Contemporary
  • Writing and Publishing: Gaming
  • The Long Workshop
  • Development 1
  • English Independent Study (PDP)
  • Advanced Research in Practice
  • After The Modern: Existentialism and Postmodernism
  • Riots and Rebels: Studies in Intercultural Drama
  • Colonialism and Independence
  • The Art of Crime
  • Tragedy
  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry
  • Gender and Identity in Contemporary Literature
  • Eighteenth-Century Literature: Terror Wit and Letters of Love
  • Genre
  • Self-Publishing
  • The Written World in the Twenty-first Century
  • Language and the Poetic 2
  • Principles and Practice of Business in the Creative Industries
  • Skills for Contemporary Publishing
  • Development 2
  • Independent Study in Writing and Publishing