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BA Creative Writing and English Literature

University of Worcester

Institution
University of Worcester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Creative Writing and English Literature
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
WQ82
Typical offer
A-level BCC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: Merit

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and English Literature and Creative Writing. Core topics include Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Teaching is delivered mainly through small-group seminars and workshops. The programme includes work-based project modules. In the final year, students undertake either a creative writing project or a literary dissertation.

Modules

  • Literary Forms and Genres
  • Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing
  • Writing Worcester Past and Present
  • Introduction to Writing
  • Writing Poetry
  • Writing Fiction
  • Exploring the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice
  • Writer as Researcher
  • Movement and Migration
  • Politics, Sex and Identity in the Early Modern World
  • Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
  • Gothic and Romantic Literature
  • Spaces of Modernity
  • Children’s Literature
  • Work Project
  • Writing for Children
  • Slam, Spoken Word and Performance Poetry
  • Genre Fiction
  • Collabowriting
  • Work Project Module
  • Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western
  • Postcolonial Encounters
  • Writing and the Environment
  • War and Conflict
  • Gendering Voices
  • Literatures and Cultures: International Explorations
  • Queer Bodies, Queer Texts
  • Metamorphoses: Literature and Adaptation
  • Extended Writing Project
  • Hypermedia - Creative Writing in a Digital Culture
  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Writing Witchcraft