BA English Literature with Creative Writing
Course Overview
This BA English Literature with Creative Writing course offers a unique, integrated approach to literary study and practice. You will analyze classic and contemporary texts while developing your own voice as a writer, with each discipline informing and enriching the other. The program is taught by prize-winning authors and research-active academics within a supportive, small-group learning environment.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn from active, prize-winning authors who provide detailed feedback on your work
- Integrated curriculum where literary analysis inspires your writing and vice-versa
- Specialized masterclasses in your final year to explore current themes and pursue publication
- Workshop-based learning model to build community and refine your craft with peers
- Opportunities for academic placements, study abroad, and contributing to the department's online creative magazine
Course Overview
This BA English Literature with Creative Writing course offers a unique, integrated approach to literary study and practice. You will analyze classic and contemporary texts while developing your own voice as a writer, with each discipline informing and enriching the other. The program is taught by prize-winning authors and research-active academics within a supportive, small-group learning environment.
Key Program Highlights
- Learn from active, prize-winning authors who provide detailed feedback on your work
- Integrated curriculum where literary analysis inspires your writing and vice-versa
- Specialized masterclasses in your final year to explore current themes and pursue publication
- Workshop-based learning model to build community and refine your craft with peers
- Opportunities for academic placements, study abroad, and contributing to the department's online creative magazine
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Poetry in English
- Prose: Writing Identities
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- What Is Comparative Literature?
- Myth, Legend and Romance: Medieval Storytelling
- Creative Writing: The Short Story
- Contemporary Fiction
- Victorian Literature
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- The Business of Books
- Early Modern Literature
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Critical Thinking
- Dissertation
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature
- Lyric Voices, 1340-1650
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Creative Writing Masterclass – Poetry
- The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
- Creative Writing Masterclass: Prose
- Literature and Mental Health
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Shakespeare on Film
- James Joyce
- Literature and Healing
- Medieval Other worlds
- Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Environment, Ecology and Literature
- Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
- Global Literatures: Translation as Theme and Theory
- Margaret Atwood
- Placing Jane Austen
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Children's Literature
