English Literature with Creative Writing BA Honours (QW38)

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• SEL1003 Introduction to Literary Studies I
• SEL1004 Introduction to Literary Studies II
• SEL1031 Drama, Theatre and Performance
• SEL1023 Transformations
• SEL1000 Introduction to Creative Writing
• SEL1030 Close Reading

• SEL2216 Poetry, Script and Prose Workshop
• SEL2215 Creative and Critical Writing

You choose one module from Group 1 and one module from Group 2.

• SEL2201 Reading the Renaissance
• SEL2202 Writing New Worlds, 1660-1800
• SEL2203 Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
• SEL2219 Monsters, Misery and Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry

• SEL2205 Fictions of Migration
• SEL2206 Contemporary Cultures
• SEL2207 Modernisms
• SEL2217 Popular Performance Here and Now
• SEL2204 Victorian Passions: Victorian Values

You take a further two modules from either Group 1 or Group 2 OR one module from either group. You can also opt to take the following module:

• SEL2210 Independent Research Project 2

Alternatively, you may replace a module from Group 1 or Group 2 with one of the following modules:

• NCL2007 Career Development for Second Year Students
• NCL2100 Developing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employability
• NCL2010 Career Management Module

• SEL3333 File of Original Literary Work

You choose one module from Group A, one module from Group B and two further modules from either group.

• SEL3379 Enlightened Romantics
• SEL3093 Coming of Age in the Renaissance
• SEL3373 Women of Virtue and Women of Pleasure
• SEL3303 Writing Rebellion: The Literature of the English Revolution
• SEL3090 Chaucer, Chivalry, and Heresy in the Middle Ages
• SEL3340 Journeys of the Imagination in Romantic Poetry
• SEL3389 Stage and Page: Character and Performance, 1660-1800

• SEL3308 Murder, Mystery, Mayhem
• SEL3338 Home, History, Heritage
• SEL3346 Contemporary Documentary 1: Theory and Practice
• SEL3091 Sex and Money: Economies of the Victorian Novel
• SEL3319 Spielberg Generation
• SEL3323 English Ghost Story: Forms and Themes
• SEL3378 Landscapes of American Modernism
• SEL3347 Contemporary Documentary 2: Theory and Practice
• SEL3359 Victorian Dream Worlds
• SEL3370 Writing the Postcolonial Nation: Literature from the Indian Subcontinent
• SEL3388 Reading Contemporary Cultures
• SEL3387 The Child: Representations in Literature and Culture
• SEL3386 Modernist Poetry: Pound to the Beats
• SEL3390 A New Empire: Fiction and the Rise of Global Capitalism

You may substitute one module from the above two groups with one of the following modules:

• SEL3324 The Cultural Industries (Semester 1)
• SEL3325 The Cultural Industries (Semester 2)
• NCL3007 Career Development for Final Year Students
• NCL3008 Advanced Career Development for Final Year Students

English students acquire a range of valuable skills, which they can transfer to many different employment situations. Your literary and linguistic training can be used in journalism, librarianship, teaching and the highly competitive fields of writing, acting and directing.

You will also gain other skills such as the capacity to analyse and summarise material, to communicate, to work to a deadline, to argue a case, to work independently as well as collaboratively, to think logically and to be able to use computers.

This is excellent preparation for a wide number of professions and as such, our graduates have gone on to a variety of career areas including editorial, marketing, PR and other forms of media. Others have gone to work in law, politics, HR, teaching and supporting specialist learning.

Find out more about the career options for English Literature, Language and Linguistics from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.