Creative Writing And English (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

COURSE STRUCTURE

In Year 1, you take five core modules that will introduce you to the writing of prose fiction and to some of the major genres and periods of English literature, while developing your skills in understanding and applying a range of critical theories and methods.

In Year 2, you take two core modules that will introduce you to the writing of poetry and drama, and a core creative writing module that will develop your writing skills in longer-form fiction. You also take a compulsory English literature module that will develop your ability to critically evaluate longer fiction.

In Year 3, you take a compulsory module that explores the boundary between creative and critical writing.

In your final year, you undertake a dissertation.

All other modules are optional, chosen from a wide range offered across our BA English and our BA Creative Writing programmes. You can also choose option modules on related programmes in the School of Arts, such as our BA Liberal Arts.

YEAR 1 CORE MODULES

• Doing English
• Independent Reading Portfolio: The Short Story
• Introduction to Screenwriting
• Reading Literature
• Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques

YEAR 2 CORE AND COMPULSORY MODULES

• Introduction to Drama
• Introduction to Poetry
• Narrative Methods
• The Novel: Writing the Modern World

YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULE

• The Creative Critical Seam

CREATIVE WRITING OPTION MODULES

• Creative Non-Fiction
• Fiction Workshop: The Contemporary Novel
• Poetry Workshop 1
• Poetry Workshop 2: The Open Page
• Scriptwriting Workshop 1: The Essentials of Stage and Screen (The 30 Minute Script)
• Scriptwriting Workshop 2: Writing for the Contemporary Stage
• Scriptwriting Workshop 3: The Radio Drama
• Scriptwriting Workshop 4: The Television Drama (The 60 Minute Script)

ENGLISH LITERATURE OPTION MODULES

• Benjamin / Barthes
• Blake
• Contemporary British Fiction
• Fin-De-Siecle
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Gothic Romance 1764-Present
• Literature and the Politics of Feelings
• Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
• Milton
• Reading Joyce's Ulysses
• Shakespeare and Performance
• Telling the self
• Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity

BA CREATIVE WRITING AND ENGLISH DISSERTATION (CHOOSE ONE)

• BA Dissertation in Creative Writing and English
• Dissertation BA Creative Writing
• Dissertation BA English

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