BA English with Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6 (English),5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English, exploring literatures in English across historical, cultural, and material contexts. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. Students undertake creative writing specialisations covering prose fiction, poetry, and scriptwriting alongside language modules examining the history, structure, and function of English.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Writing from 21st Century Ireland
- Adventures in Shakespeare
- Creative Writing Drama
- Creative Writing Poetry
- Creative Writing Prose
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Principles of Business in Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- America's Aftermaths
- Gender, Culture, and Representation – Backwards & in Heels
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Double Dissertation Creative Writing
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Language in the Media
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now