BA English Literature with Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: AAA including English Literature or one of the subjects listed below.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods. The first two years allocate two-thirds of study time to English Literature and one-third to Creative Writing, with a third-year option to adjust this balance. Students can publish work through EggBox, a student-run publishing project.
Modules
- CREATIVE WRITING: BEGINNINGS
- ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
- READING NOW
- EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
- CREATIVE WRITING: EXPERIMENTS IN GENRE
- 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)
- THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
- READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
- 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)
- ADAPTATION: CROSS-MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS
- LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
- PIRATES, SEAFARERS, SHIPWRECK C. 1500-1750: THE PERILS OF THE SEA
- LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
- INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - B1 CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - B1 CEFR
- INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II B1 CEFR
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED SCRIPTWRITING
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED PROSE (AUT)
- CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED POETRY (AUT)
- PITCH, PUBLISH, PERFORM
- CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (SPR)
- CREATIVE WRITING DISSERTATION (AUT)
- WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
- 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