English with Creative Writing BA
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In Uxbridge
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Uxbridge
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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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- Screenwriting
- Shakespeare
- Music
- Approach
- Creative Writing
- English
- Drama
- Project
- Writing
- Poetry
Course programme
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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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.
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