Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre [W841]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
Students must take one of the following modules:
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
American Literature 1819-1925
Critical Practice
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
Ancestral Voices
Contemporary Writing
Critical Practice
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Options
Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Classical Drama and Myth
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Literary Modernisms
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Contemporary Queer Fiction
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
Final Year Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Literatures of Surveillance
The Writing Project
Writing Horror
Writing and Place
Writing Music
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
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- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
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