BA English Literature and Creative Writing (Extended Degree)
Entry requirements
UCAS Tariff: 56 to 72 Tariff Points Subject requirements: There are no specific subject requirements for this course.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature, exploring literary texts and creative writing. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students can choose an optional work placement year or study abroad period as part of the four- or five-year duration.
Modules
- Exploring Identity
- Humanities Portfolio: Skills for University
- Trigger-happy: The Language and Literature of Offence and Discrimination
- Public Humanities: Academic Research in the Wider World
- War and Words
- Foundations of Creative Writing
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Reading Poetry
- Story
- Creative and Critical Practice
- Talking Texts
- Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit)
- Early Modern Cultures
- Modernism and Modernity
- Thinking About Voice
- Working With Structure
- Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism
- Pitch to Publication
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Humanities Work Placement Year
- Humanities Study Abroad Year
- English Dissertation
- Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities
- Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context
- History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War
- Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture
- Shaking up Shakespeare
- Creative Writing Project
- Advanced Creative Writing
- Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present
- Writing and Environment
- The Craft of the Playwright
- Victorian Sensation Fiction
- Staging Early Modern Gender
- Audio Storytelling
- Language, Strange and Enchanted
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University