English with Creative Writing BA

Course

In Uxbridge

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Start date

    September

  About the Course English and Creative Writing at Brunel, ranked 10th in the UK – Guardian League Tables, May 2015 English and Creative Writing is the perfect course to both learn about English Literature from the

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Location

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Uxbridge (Middlesex)
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Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH

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Subjects

  • Screenwriting
  • Shakespeare
  • Music
  • Approach
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Drama
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Poetry

Course programme

Course Content

The English courses as a whole cover all the major periods of literature from the Renaissance to the most recent publications in poetry, fiction and drama. Our lecturers have an excellent record of research and publication but, because our own areas of expertise are wide-ranging, we don’t promote any single critical approach as the ‘right way’ of reading literature. Instead we aim to introduce you right from the start to a variety of critical perspectives in preference to a routine chronological survey.

All Level 1 modules offer an introduction to a broad range of areas that are revisited and further developed at Levels 2 and 3.

The Creative Writing modules will foster your self-awareness and draw extensively on your individual personal experience and interests. You can choose from fiction, poetry, screenwriting and journalism in Level 2.

All modules at Level 3 will encourage you to be an active and independent critic and writer and will address a wide variety of different approaches to literature.

The Creative Writing Project will enable you to undertake an extended piece of creative work, encouraging full expression of the skills that the programme as a whole is designed to develop. This project allows you to give full reign to your personal interests. Whether it’s writing music journalism or epic poetry, this is your chance to create a project that fulfils your creative ambitions.

In Creative Writing and the Creative Industries successful creative writing students will have the option of continuing their creative work to Master’s level.

The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Level 1

Compulsory

Learning London

Reading Resilience

Introduction to Writing Fiction

Introduction to Writing Drama

Introduction to Poetry

Level 2

Optional

Nineteenth-Century Novel

Shakespeare Text and Performance

The Women's Movement and 20th Century Writing

Post-Colonial Writing

Modernism

Romanticism and Revolution

Contemporary British Fiction

Genre Fiction

Writing Journalism

Writing the Short Story

Screenwriting

Writing Contemporary Poetry

Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Level 3

Compulsory

Project

Optional

Psychogeography

Writing Modern Fiction

Writing Comedy

Writing Modern Drama

Performance Poetry

Creative Writing and the Creative Industries

Special Author

Postcolonial Perspectives

Victorian Literature and Culture

Jane Austen

Postmillennial Fictions

A Sinking Island? British Poetry’s Response to Modernism and Postmodernism

Post War and Late Twentieth Century Literature 1945 – 2001

The Creative Industries

The Long Novel

Violence

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Additional information

Special Features

The Creative Writing department at Brunel is unique in its industry focus. We believe that it is important for fledgling writers to get the chance to hear from professional authors, and as well as our uniquely talented staff, we also run the Writers Talking Series, which brings leading authors to our campus. Recent visitors have included:

  • All staff are practising writers or are research-active and experts in their fields, which goes to inform and enhance teaching for all students.

  • You have the opportunity to specialise in areas that particularly fascinate you or to maintain a broad-based degree. We have created a lively programme with a fresh approach to studying literature, and you can carry out a final year project on any related topic of your choice.

  • You can study a modern foreign language as one of your Level 1 options. We also liaise closely with Brunel’s other arts and social sciences disciplines and encourage students to participate in all extra-curricular arts activities.

  • The University

English with Creative Writing BA

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