BA English and Creative Writing & History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB Year 2 entry: AAA-ABB IB: 32-30 Year 2 entry: 36-32
About this course
BA in English and English with Creative Writing and History, combining literary study with creative writing and historical inquiry. Core topics include research methods, historical research, critical and analytical thinking, and a global and comparative perspective. A placement module provides at least 60 hours of work-based experience in a professionally relevant setting.
Modules
- English 1A & 1B
- History 1A: Making History
- History 1B: Britain & the world since 1707
- Writing Through Time 1&2
- The Construction of Scotland
- Making the Modern Human
- Glasgow: History, Culture Identity
- Disease & Society: An Introduction to the History of Medicine
- War & Society in the Twentieth Century
- Modern Europe
- Reading & Writing Poetry
- Reading & Writing Prose
- Reading & Writing Screenplays
- Writing Short Fiction & Poetry
- Sex, Revenge & Corruption in Renaissance Drama
- Twentieth Century Literature
- The Body: Theories & Representations
- Glasgow Narratives
- The Near Abroad: Literature & Imperialism within Europe
- The American Novel
- Victorian Literature
- English & Creative Writing Work Placement
- Dramatic Writing
- Imperial Seascapes
- Religion Behind the Iron Curtain
- Everyday Life, Activism & The Troubles
- Bombers and Mash: Britain and the Home Front 1939 to 45
- Slavery in World History
- Work Placement in History
- Historiography & Research Methods
- Communism in Practice: the Case of Czechoslovakia
- The Irish Diaspora 1800 to 2020
- The Russian Revolution & its Global Impact
- Cold War Europe
- Scotland’s Highland Problem
- Scottish Society Since 1914
- Year abroad
- Writing Gender in Contemporary Literature
- Historical Fiction
- Wild in the Renaissance
- Creative Economies & the Culture Industry
- East Asian Literatures
- 21st Century Science Fiction
- New Narratives
- Victorian Gothic
- Climate Narratives
- Dissertation in English
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- The Scramble for the Middle East: Arab Nationalism, Zionism & European Colonial Powers, 1914-1939
- Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia
- Rwanda: Peace, Conflict & the Politics
- Plantation in Ulster
- France at War, 1870-1962
- Medicine & Warfare in the Twentieth Century
- Scottish Society
- Genocide in the 20th Century
- Society & Politics in Colonial India