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BA English Literature and Creative Writing

Northumbria University

Institution
Northumbria University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
QW38
Typical offer
A-level CA, UCAS 96-112

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff: 96 to 112 Tariff Points Subject requirements: There are no specific subject requirements for this course.

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete a major independent dissertation project in their final year, with optional routes available to undertake an extended work placement or a period of study abroad.

Modules

  • 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