BA English with Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in English with Creative Writing, an English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) degree. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students can undertake a study abroad period or complete a placement year. The first year covers foundational study through modules such as A Stranger Comes to Town: Introduction to Creative Writing, Literary Transformations, Poetic Language, The Act of the Essay, and The Novel, with optional choices including The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern, Theory and Criticism, and World Dramas. The second year introduces modules including Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories, Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module, Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students, and Year in Employment, alongside diverse optional subjects. The final year centres on the English Dissertation alongside specialized optional modules spanning various literary and cultural themes.
Modules
- A Stranger Comes to Town: Introduction to Creative Writing
- Literary Transformations
- Poetic Language
- The Act of the Essay
- The Novel
- The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern
- Theory and Criticism
- World Dramas
- Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
- Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module
- Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students
- Year in Employment
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- African Freedoms and the Novel
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Decolonising Modernity
- Desire and Decay: Literature of the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Mind, Matter, Machine: Writing and Technological Change
- Pirates, Princesses and the Politics of Romance
- Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
- Queering the Digital
- Retail Therapy: A Journey Through the Cultural History of Shopping
- Romantics and Victorians
- Scriptwriting
- Speech Acts
- The Worlding of English Literature
- Women, Writing and the Canon, 1770-1900
- English Dissertation
- Burning Worlds, Drowning Worlds: Oil Cultures, Climate Crisis, and Traumatic Desires in World Literatures
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- American Cinema Since 1965
- American Gothic
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Creative Writing in Schools
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Digital Life: Myths, Social Media, And Artificial Intelligence
- Environmental Cinema and Media
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
- Holocaust Literature
- Money and Meaning in American Fiction
- Pirates, Princesses and the Politics of Romance
- Queering the Digital
- Scriptwriting
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Streaming, Social Media, and Stans: Music Culture in the Platform Era
- Telling True Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
- The Origins of Climate Crisis: Ecology in Victorian Literature
- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Culture