BA Creative Writing and History
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: M
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative Writing and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. Most learning takes place in small-group seminars. The course includes a 30-credit Extended Writing Project module completed over two semesters, plus opportunities for work placements in museums and archives.
Modules
- Introduction to Writing
- Writing Poetry
- Writing Fiction
- Britain since the Reformation
- Reconstructing the past: Academic, public and popular history
- Writer as Researcher
- Collabowriting
- Writing for Children
- Genre Fiction
- Slam, Spoken Word and Performance Poetry
- Work Project Module
- Historical research: Method and practice
- The American century, 1917-2001
- The German empire, 1862-1918
- History work experience module
- The Making of Modern Ireland: Conflict, Revolution and Partition
- 'A people's war'? Britain and the Second World War
- Georgian Britain and the Atlantic world, 1760-1820
- Heritage tourism and place promotion
- Extended Writing Project
- Hypermedia - Creative Writing in a Digital Culture
- Contemporary Poetry
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing Witchcraft
- International Exchanges
- Writing for Performance
- The Atlantic slave trade and abolition
- The good war: The USA and World War Two
- Nazi Germany
- Research experience module
- Blood and Oil: Iraq since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
- Gender, sexuality and welfare: The body in history
- Witchcraft and the Devil
- Japan's world, 1854-1951