BA Creative Writing and English Literature

Institution

University of East Anglia

Level

undergraduate

Subject

Creative Writing and English Literature

Duration

3 years

UCAS code

_W8Q3

Typical offer

A-level AAA

Entry requirements

A level: AAA including English Literature or one of the subjects listed below.

About this course

BA (Hons) English Language and Literature and Creative Writing, combining literary study with creative practice. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme offers a semester abroad and an arts and humanities placement module. Modules span from Medieval Writing to Contemporary Fiction, with options in publishing and cross-media adaptation.

Modules

• CREATIVE WRITING: BEGINNINGS
• CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
• ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
• READING NOW
• EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
• THE RISE OF THE MACHINES: WRITING AND READING IN THE AGE OF AI
• VICTORIAN WRITING
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
• EUROPEAN LITERATURE
• CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
• SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
• MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
• LITERATURE STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD (SPRING)
• ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
• EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
• MODERNISM: THE ART OF EXPERIMENT
• THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
• ADAPTATION: CROSS-MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS
• THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
• ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
• LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
• PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
• MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
• READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
• LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
• SCRIPTWRITING: SCREEN AND STAGE
• WRITING IN THE WORLD: PLACEMENTS, PODCASTS, CREATIVE NON FICTION
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (SPR)
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (AUT)
• SCRIPTWRITING: TV/FILM
• SCRIPTWRITING: STAGE/AUDIO
• CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY (AUT)
• PITCH, PUBLISH, PERFORM
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING
• CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (SPR)
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE
• CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (AUT)
• WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED POETRY (AUT)
• MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
• THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
• SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
• BANNED BOOKS
• LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (AUT)
• LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (SPR)
• LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (SPR)
• WRITING CONSCIOUSNESS: STYLE AND MODERNIST FICTION
• WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
• LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (AUT)
• IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
• MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
• THE ART OF MURDER
• THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
• CHILDREN'S LITERATURE