BA English and Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A-Level: AAB IB: 34/665 BTEC: DDD
About this course
BA in English and Creative Writing, an English and Creative Writing BA (Hons) degree centred on the study of literary texts, cultural history, and writing craft. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Campus facilities house Special Collections of world-renowned writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, and a Digital Humanities Lab. The first year covers foundational literature and writing skills through compulsory modules such as Beginnings: English Literature before 1800, Academic English, Write after Reading, Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry, and Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing, alongside optional choices including The Novel. The second year provides options spanning various historical periods, media adaptations, and genres, with modules such as Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media, Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture, Creative Writing: Building a Story, and Creative Writing: Making a Poem.
Modules
- Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
- Academic English
- Write after Reading
- Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry
- Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
- The Novel
- The Poem
- Rethinking Shakespeare
- Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Creative Writing: Building a Story
- Creative Writing: Making a Poem
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640
- Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England
- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Renaissance and Revolution
- Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750
- Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings
- Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960
- Romanticism
- Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory
- Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World