BA English & Creative Writing
Entry requirements
104 points at A2 BTEC Extended Diploma: DMM BTEC Diploma: D*D Pass Access Course: 104 UCAS Points International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 104 points from Higher Level Subjects T Level: M IELTS: 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5 GCSEs: 5 at grade C/4 including Maths and English or equivalent
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and English Literature and Creative Writing. Core topics include research methods, project management, communication and writing, critical and analytical thinking, and ethics and professional practice. Students choose to study either English literature or English language alongside creative writing. A dissertation in the final year provides the opportunity for extended independent research.
Modules
- Story Shapes: Drama, Structure and Plot
- Exploring Form and Genre
- Writing for Professional Practice
- Sentence, Meaning and Context
- Discourse Analysis
- Literary Landscapes
- Language, Gender and Identity
- Reading Texts
- Introduction to Renaissance Literature
- Introduction to American Literature and Culture
- Readers and Reviewers
- Reading and Writing the Short Story
- Writing Adaptations
- English Employability and Research
- Reading and Writing Fairy Tales
- Text and Discourse
- From Romantics to Decadents: Literary Culture 1789 - 1900
- The Gothic in Literature, Visual Culture and Film
- Dissertation
- Advanced Creative Writing
- Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Language
- The Shock of the New: Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Otherworlds: Reading and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy