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BA Creative Writing and English (Full-time) (

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Institution
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Creative Writing and English (Full-time) (BA Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
QW38
Typical offer
UCAS 96-112

Entry requirements

96-112 UCAS Tariff Points

About this course

BA Hons in English, covering literature from the Renaissance to the present alongside creative writing. Core topics include social and cultural analysis. The programme includes small-group classes centred on discussion, a professional placement opportunity, and options to undertake an independent creative project or a research-based independent project in the final year.

Modules

  • Exploring the Humanities
  • Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
  • Historicising Texts
  • Introduction to the Craft of Writing
  • Popular Fiction
  • The Study of Literature: Text and Theory
  • People’s worlds: Interactions with the Environment
  • Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
  • Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
  • The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
  • Professional Placement
  • Independent Creative Project
  • International Mobility Opportunity
  • A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
  • Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
  • Novel writing
  • Off the Page: Performance Poetry
  • Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
  • Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
  • The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career
  • Writing for TV, Film and Radio
  • Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
  • The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
  • Independent Project
  • Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
  • Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
  • The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
  • Writing for TV, Film and Radio
  • Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
  • Novel writing
  • Off the Page: Performance Poetry
  • Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
  • Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
  • Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
  • A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
  • The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
  • The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career