BA English Literature and Creative Writing (Study Abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing (Study Abroad), an English Literature and Creative Writing degree focusing on the study of literary texts alongside practical creative writing workshops. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course includes a compulsory third year spent studying abroad at an international partner university. The first year introduces the subject through Literature in Time and Introduction to Creative Writing. The second year continues with Critical Theory, Developing Your Writing Practice, and Writing Fiction. Optional modules across the degree span areas such as poetry, playwriting, postcolonial literature, Victorian literature, and gothic and science fiction. The final year features the Advanced Creative Writing Workshop, and students may also complete an English Literature Dissertation through a programme of directed independent study.
Modules
- Literature in Time
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- World Literatures
- Re-Making Tradition
- The Arts and Identity (Discovery module)
- British Cinema
- Understanding Media and Culture
- Foundations of Language
- Critical Theory
- Developing Your Writing Practice
- Writing Fiction
- Playwriting
- Writing Poetry
- Medieval to Early Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- Literary Adaptation
- American Literature
- Victorian Literature
- Critical Practice
- Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)
- Your Year Abroad
- Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
- Shakespeare
- Romanticism
- Austen and the Brontës
- Gothic and Science Fiction
- Modernism
- Contemporary Literature
- Literature and Environment
- Special Topics in Theory
- English Literature Dissertation
- Writing Beyond the Text
- Writing Beyond the Moment
- Writing Beyond the Self
- Artistic Fusions (Discovery module)
- Queer Futures (Discovery module)