English with Creative Writing BA Placement offered Joint honours

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
• 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
• Writing the Self

Level 3

Compulsory

• Project

Optional

• Psychogeography
• Writing Modern Fiction
• Writing Comedy
• Writing Modern Drama
• Performance Poetry
• Chaucer to Shakespeare
• Victorian Literature and Culture
• The Muslim World in Early Modern English Literature
• Reading for Writers / Writing for Readers
• Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature
• Post War and Late Twentieth Century Literature 1945 – 2001
• The Creative Industries
• Writing Ireland
• Violence

Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.