Programme Requirements for 2027/28 Session


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

Year: 4
2027/28 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:

BLOCK B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Boring Beyond Belief?: Uncreative Writing 09 38978 20 Semester 1
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 1
LH British Popular Romance 09 39934 20 Semester 1
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets 09 30616 20 Semester 1
LH Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing 09 39959 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Writing/Painting 09 37839 20 Semester 1

BLOCK C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Decoding Pop Culture 09 37089 20 Semester 2
LH Flourish for the Players (Shakespeare's Contemporaries) 09 30631 20 Semester 2
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art 09 29643 20 Semester 2
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 2
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Jane Austen’s Fiction 09 39772 20 Semester 2
LH Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 09 32236 20 Semester 2

BLOCK D:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books 09 37165 20 Semester 2
LH Daphne du Maurier: Horror, Romance & Obsession 09 39133 20 Semester 2
LH Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions 09 27596 20 Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2
LH The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700 09 37352 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