BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing

Module: 4EN007

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will examine the shorter fiction and literature of well-known and canonical authors as a means of introducing a range of authors in a digestible fashion whilst also considering the short story as a distinct literary form. We will discuss a range of short literary material to show the contribution that such literature can make to the canon. We will investigate the formal characteristics of the short story – plot (or its frequent absence), narrative technique, arrangement of scenes, tone, and how the structure determines the treatment of a range of contemporary ideas: time and consciousness, subjectivity, alienation, sexuality, body and gender, fantasy, imperialism and immigration.

Module: 4CW003

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to: acquaint students to a wide range of ideas about language and writing; develop a foundational understanding of language, text and the craft of writing for future creative and professional writing experiences; enable students to make informed judgments about the nature and function of language and writing; and apply their understanding by writing original texts.

Module: 4EN009

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will explore a broad selection of poetry from different periods of literary history with an emphasis on learning techniques for formal analysis (close reading), creative expression (writing poetry), and performance. We will consider aspects of reading, writing, and performing poetry, including form, rhythm and meter, diction, figurative language and sound. We will also consider the development of particular genres (e.g. the ballad, the sonnet) and forms (e.g. blank verse, free verse) over time, from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the horizon of reader expectations that accrue around poetic forms and genres.

Module: 4CW001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will teach students how to read with an eye for technique. It will focus on how writing is structured and the various ways in which authors create compelling narratives. It will address a variety of modes of writing and genres including novels, short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and tap into reading and critical theories. Students will be given the opportunity to experiment creatively within those modes, and reflect on what can be learned from the study of other people's work.

Module: 4FI001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will introduce students to the devices and concepts of narrative structure in film, and provide models with which to analyse narrative and its various functional elements. We will consider the particular aspects of film narrative, and how these have been drawn from and, in turn, influenced other narrative forms. This will include addressing the processes through which written and graphic text, and dramatic performance, become transferred and adapted into film narrative. These issues will be explored further through a group assessment exercise in which a scene from a short written narrative will be adapted into a scene from a screenplay.

Module: 4CW006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module you will study folk- and fairytales from different cultures, exploring why and how people tell tales. You will listen to tales, tell tales, and rewrite them, discovering how they change in relation to their form and function. Storytelling is increasingly valued as a persuasive tool in the world of work. This module aims to introduce a skill transferable to job interviews, meetings, classrooms and digital media.

Module: 5EN007

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module offers a critical and creative engagement with literature written for children, designed for Creative Writing and English students. In studying the historical trajectory of children’s literature, students will be encouraged to analyse texts in relation to their cultural, social and gendered contexts, and mindful of the changing politics of childhood as an identity category. What did ‘childhood’ mean in different eras, and what was the literature intended for them meant to do?

Module: 5CW003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module studies life-writing across a range of cultures and periods, examining its diversity, its formal properties and its social and personal value as witness to oppression, a form of consciousness- raising, personal testimony and literature.

Module: 5CW002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module you& rsquo;ll research the readership and style of various magazines, websites and organisations, with a view to writing perfectly pitched& nbsp;feature articles. You will learn the varied forms of the feature& nbsp;and get practical experience of working on real-world& nbsp;publication ideas. You will also have to produce a professional profile for yourself as a writer. Practical application is emphasised in this module and the assessment is& nbsp;relevant to the current freelance writing industry.

Module: 5CW004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module offers students the opportunity to explore ways of working creatively with region and identity in their writing, particularly with regard to how the former impacts on the latter. It will consider the significance of setting, and the extent to which voice and character can be determined by place. It will create a context in which students can reflect on, and respond creatively to, their own environment as a means of producing original writing in a variety of forms.

Module: 5HU002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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The module examines literary and cultural responses to political debates and to key moments in social history produce extended creative...