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Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.A. English and Creative Writing with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Creative Writing Project 09 20340 40 Full Term

Students should choose either: 1) 20 credits from the list of Creative Writing Special Subjects and 60 credits from the list of English Literature Special Subjects; or 2) 40 credits from each of the Creative Writing and English Literature Special Subjects list: Indicative lists are provided below:

Creative Writing Special Subjects:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adaptation: Theory and Practice 09 37837 20 Semester 1
LH Creative Non Fiction 09 29732 20 Semester 1
LH Extreme Fictions 09 29731 20 Semester 2
LH Sympathetic Texts 09 30731 20 Semester 2
LH The Hatred of Poetry 09 29730 20 Semester 1

English Literature Special Subjects:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 09 30646 20 Semester 2
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century 09 29639 20 Semester 1
LH Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books 09 37165 20 Semester 2
LH Boring Beyond Belief?: Uncreative Writing 09 38978 20 Semester 1
LH Decoding Pop Culture 09 37089 20 Semester 2
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets 09 30616 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From 09 30620 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 1
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
LH Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 09 32236 20 Semester 1
LH Poetry Film 09 39922 20 Semester 2
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Afterlives 09 24790 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 09 37091 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful, this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. Students undertaking a Professional Skills module must also take at least one Creative Writing Special Subject and at least one English Literature Special Subject. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full- time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1