BA English with Creative Writing
Course Overview
This English with Creative Writing BA immerses you in the rich tradition of English literature while providing a dynamic workshop environment to develop your own voice as a writer. You will explore diverse forms—from poetry and prose fiction to screenwriting and creative nonfiction—and gain professional skills through public performances and literary reviews. The course connects you to the wider writing industry through expert tuition, renowned guest speakers, and the unique literary resources of Leicester.
Key Program Highlights
- Study literature from its earliest forms to contemporary works while composing your own original pieces
- Explore a wide range of forms including poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction
- Gain professional experience through public performances and writing literary reviews
- Learn from visiting authors and industry professionals through the Centre for New Writing
- Access unique archival resources, including the personal papers of renowned authors
Course Overview
This English with Creative Writing BA immerses you in the rich tradition of English literature while providing a dynamic workshop environment to develop your own voice as a writer. You will explore diverse forms—from poetry and prose fiction to screenwriting and creative nonfiction—and gain professional skills through public performances and literary reviews. The course connects you to the wider writing industry through expert tuition, renowned guest speakers, and the unique literary resources of Leicester.
Key Program Highlights
- Study literature from its earliest forms to contemporary works while composing your own original pieces
- Explore a wide range of forms including poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction
- Gain professional experience through public performances and writing literary reviews
- Learn from visiting authors and industry professionals through the Centre for New Writing
- Access unique archival resources, including the personal papers of renowned authors
Requirements
Modules
- Writing Matters
- The Novel Around the World
- Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 1
- Reading Poetry
- Renaissance Drama
- Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 2
- Using Stories
- Critical Perspectives 1
- Advanced Creative Writing Skills
- Romantic Literature from Blake to Shelley
- Eighteenth-Century Literature from Restoration to Revolution
- Modern Literature from Conrad to Orwell
- Contemporary Literature from 1945 to Now
- English and Arts Journalism
- Global Voices and the Publishing Industry
- English and Education
- Critical Perspectives 2
- YEAR ABROAD
- Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Adolescence in American Fiction and Film
- Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
- Writing Voices
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- Writing Prose Fiction
- Bodies and Minds from the Victorians to the Present Day
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Queering the Renaissance
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Weird Fiction/Weird Film
- Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
- The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
- Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
- Tragedy
- Writing for Laughs
- Literature and Decolonisation
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Watching the Detectives: Crime on the Page and Screen
- Dissertation (English)
- Dissertation (Creative Writing)
