Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Body Politics – 40 credits
- Telling Tales – 20 credits
- Tips, Tricks, Techniques – 20 credits
- True Stories – 20 credits
- The Short Story: Murder, Madness and Experimentation – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules for this year include:
- Literary Prizes and Public Acclaim – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Bloody Shakespeare: the Politics and Poetics of Violence – 20 credits
- Creative Writing and Critical Thinking – 20 credits
- Creative Writing for Comedy – 20 credits
- Creative Writing for Film – 20 credits
- Crime Writing – 20 credits
- Dystopian and Apocalyptic Environments: Ecocrisis in the Literary Imagination – 20 credits
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Fiction – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Nonfiction – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Speculative Fiction – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Writing for Performance – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- Press and Public Relations – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Research in Practice – 20 credits
- Space, Place and Being – 20 credits
- Student Enterprise – 20 credits
- Women's Writing in the Americas – 20 credits
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Optional modules in this year include:
- English Literature Dissertation – 40 credits
- Or Creative Writing Dissertation – 40 credits
- Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture – 20 credits
- Fact and Fiction – 20 credits
- Fan Fiction – 20 credits
- Holocaust Literatures – 20 credits
- Magical Realism – 20 credits
- Neo-historical Fiction – 20 credits
- Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction – 20 credits
- Travel Writing – 20 credits
- US Masculinities – 20 credits
- Writing Project (with Publishing) – 20 credits
