BA English Literature with Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: AAA (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider the level 3 QCF BTEC at Subsidiary Diploma level and above in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 17 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English Literature with Creative Writing, an English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) degree centred on the study of literary texts alongside practical writing across multiple genres. The first year introduces foundational study through modules such as Writing Creatively, Reading Between the Lines, and Literature, Culture and Critique, alongside optional topics like Drama: Text and Performance and Poetry: Reading and Interpretation. The second year progresses to specialized exploration with compulsory modules including Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture, Body Language: Literature and Embodiment, Developing Creative Writing in Prose, and Developing Creative Writing in Poetry, complemented by options such as Contemporary Literature and Script Writing. The final year focuses on an independent Creative Writing Project alongside specialist creative writing options, with further optional modules available including Bowie, Reading, Writing, Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI, and Shakespeare and Global Cinema.
Modules
- Writing Creatively
- Reading Between the Lines
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Drama: Text and Performance
- Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
- Race, Writing and Decolonization
- Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture
- Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
- Developing Creative Writing in Prose
- Developing Creative Writing in Poetry
- Contemporary Literature
- Renaissance Literature
- Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe
- Cursing and Courtesy: politeness in the history of English
- Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- The World Before Us: Literature 1660-1830
- Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Script Writing
- Travel and Journalistic Writing
- Power of Language
- Theatre, Society and Self
- Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Creative Writing Project
- Students also choose from a list of creative writing specialist options
- Bowie, Reading, Writing
- Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media
- Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI
- Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After
- Global African Writing
- Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Language of the Media
- Postcolonial London
- Refugee Narratives
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Shakespeare and Global Cinema
- Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir