BA English and Creative Writing
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: AAB-ABB (Required subjects: A in an essay-based Arts and Humanities subject at A-Level We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,6,5 at Higher level or 34 points overall. Including a 6 in an essay-based subject at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Creative Writing Special Focus modules are open to both creative writing and non-creative writing students. The course covers Old English through to contemporary fiction, with dedicated creative writing modules in playwriting, fiction, and poetry.
Modules
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Why Write? The History and Theory of Creative Writing
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Poetry
- Critical Foundations: Thinking As A Critic
- Playwriting
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Middle English Poetry
- Tolkien's Roots
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Old English Riddles
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
- Creative Writing: Structure and Style
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
- Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
- Renaissance Literature
- Victorian Literature
- Romanticisms
- Modernisms
- Literature and the Digital
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- Creative Writing: Special Focus (Term 2)
- Playwriting 2
- Fiction 2
- Poetry 2
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Literature and Philosophy
- James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- Poetic Practice
- Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- The Post-Colonial Novel
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Reading the Waste Land
- English Dissertation