BA English and Creative Writing & Social Policy
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB Year 2 entry: AAA-ABB IB: 32-30 Year 2 entry: 36-32
About this course
BA in Social Policy and English and English with Creative Writing, a combined degree covering social policy and literary studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Social & Cultural Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme offers a work placement module requiring a minimum of 60 hours of professional experience and a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- English 1A & 1B
- Social Policy & Society in Contemporary Scotland
- Private Issues & Public Problems
- Writing Through Time 1&2
- The Construction of Scotland
- Making the Modern Human
- Scottish Social Policy since 1845
- Key Concepts in Social Welfare
- The Making of Social Policy
- Reading & Writing Poetry
- Reading & Writing Prose
- Reading & Writing Screenplays
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Sex, Revenge & Corruption in Renaissance Drama
- The Body: Theories & Representations
- Writing Short Fiction & Poetry
- Glasgow Narratives
- The American Novel
- Victorian Literature
- The Near Abroad: Literature & Imperialism within Europe
- English & Creative Writing Work Placement
- Dramatic Writing
- Research Methods in Social Policy
- Comparative Social Policy: Theories, Methods & Analysis
- Writing Gender in Contemporary Literature
- Historical Fiction
- Wild in the Renaissance
- East Asian Literatures
- 21st Century Science Fiction
- Climate Narratives
- New Narratives
- Victorian Gothic
- Creative Economies & the Culture Industry
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- Dissertation in English
- Global Challenges
- Dissertation