English Literature with Creative Writing BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Winchester

£ 27,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Winchester

In English Literature, study is wide-ranging and includes modern and traditional literature, cultural study and critical analysis, Shakespeare and rap poetry. The Creative Writing elements of the programme enhance your skills at your own pace and in your own way, all the while showing you how your work relates to the wider realms of literary and cultural context.The English Literature elements in the first year provide an awareness of the range of different approaches to understanding texts and develop skills of critical analysis, research and writing. This is achieved through the study of an assortment of texts from various periods in history across the genres of prose fiction, poetry and drama. In Year 2, the focus becomes more specific with modules that look at elements of different genres such as writing for children, media writing, poetry, song and play, film and TV script. English Literature modules involve studying a group of texts representative of a period of history, a particular genre or a particular area of the world.In Year 3, the modules increasingly look at the relationships between writing and the world beyond the University - looking at publishing, producing, community audiences, writing and teaching - and a specific collection of writings, a particular theme or critical theory is considered in detail. Modules tend to be closely related to the research interests of teaching staff and engage with cutting-edge developments in the discipline.In the Creative Writing modules, you move progressively through a structured series of writing assignments and exercises, enhanced by a workshop environment that will form a critical understanding of your own writing and the writing of others.

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Location

Start date

Winchester (Hampshire)
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University Of Winchester, SO22 4NR

Start date

On request

About this course

Our aim is to shape 'confident learners' by enabling you to develop the skills needed to excel in your studies here and as well as onto further studies or the employment market. You are taught primarily through a combination of lectures and seminars, allowing opportunities to discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures in smaller groups.In addition to the formally scheduled contact time such as lectures and seminars etc.), you are encouraged to access academic support from staff within the course team, your personal tutor and the wide range of services available to you within the University.Independent learningOver the duration of your course, you will be expected to develop independent and critical learning, progressively building confidence and expertise through independent and collaborative research, problem-solving and analysis with the support of staff. You take responsibility for your own learning and are encouraged to make use of the wide range of available learning resources available.Overall workloadYour overall workload consists of class contact hours, independent learning and assessment activity.While your actual contact hours may depend on the optional modules you select, the following information gives an indication of how much time you will need to allocate to different activities at each level of the course .Year 1 (Level 4): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 252 hours Independent learning: 948 hoursYear 2 (Level 5): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 252 hours Independent learning: 948 hoursYear 3 (Level 6): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 240 hours Independent learning: 960...

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Subjects

  • Shakespeare
  • Poetry
  • Writing
  • University
  • Drama
  • English
  • Creative Writing
  • Teaching

Course programme

Year 1

Core modules:

  • Early English Texts and Contexts
  • Introduction to English Studies
  • Critical Reading 1
  • Critical Reading 2
  • Scriptwriting
  • Creative Non-fiction

Optional modules:

  • Introduction to Poetry
  • Transatlantic Narratives
  • America and Americanisation
  • The Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic
  • American Genres
  • Digital America
Year 2

Optional modules:

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
  • Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
  • Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
  • The Modern Age
  • Chaucer and His World
  • Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
  • Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
  • Victorian Fictions
  • British Literature in the Age of Reason 1688-1743
  • Literature in the Shadow of Revolution1745-1775-1789
  • Gothic and Romantic Fiction
  • Postcolonial Fictions
  • The Postmodern Age
  • Individual Project
  • Literary Adaptations for Film and Television
  • Contemporary Children's Literature
  • Volunteering for English
  • American Gothic
  • American Science Fiction
  • Writing America
  • Literature and Film
  • Work and Money in American Literature
  • Middle English Texts in Context
  • Old English 1
  • The Short Story
  • Composing Song Lyrics
  • Creating Short Screenplays
  • Fairy Tale Fictions Myths, Dreams and Creative Writing
  • Horror Fiction
  • Travel Writing
Year 3

Core modules:

  • Creative and Critical Extended Study

Optional modules:

  • Creative Voice III
  • Publishing III: hard-copy publishing
  • Playwriting 2
  • Creative Vigilance: fictions & metafictions
  • Non-Realist Writing
  • Scriptwriting: innovating within popular forms
  • Creative Non-fiction for Children
  • Special Study
  • Writing for Display
  • Writing Comics & Graphic Novels
  • E-Writing
  • Script to Film
  • Page to Stage
  • Academic Writing
  • Poetry Project: Writing for Publication
  • Advanced Fictional Writing
  • Film Script Development
  • Creativity: writing & teaching
  • Creative Visions
  • Experimental Writing
  • Adapting Crime Fictions
  • The Writers' Retreat
  • Creating an Author Collective
  • Business Storytelling
  • Writing-History-Fiction
  • Science Fictions & Fantasies
  • Writing for Radio
  • The Shakespeare Phenomenon
  • Crime and Englishness
  • Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Biography and the Body
  • William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
  • Twentieth Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
  • Consumer Culture
  • Jewish Identities
  • Keywords
  • Literature, Sexuality and Morality
  • The City in American Literature 1868-1925
  • Renaissance Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth I
  • Romantic Celebrity Culture
  • Globalization and Contemporary Fiction
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
  • The Figure of the Law in Literature
  • Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.

English Literature with Creative Writing BA (Hons)

£ 27,750 VAT inc.