Structure
You can complete your English and Creative Writing degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.
YEAR 1
You will take the following modules (all compulsory):
Introduction to Creative Writing
- London Global
- Reading, Theory and Interpretation: approaches to the study of English Literature
- Shakespeare
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 2
You will take the following two compulsory modules
- Creative Writing: Poetry and Performance
- Creative Writing: Prose
You then choose a minimum of two modules from across at least two of these lists:
- List One: Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
- Renaissance Drama
- Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Representing London: Writing the eighteenth-century city
- Romantics and Revolutionaries
- Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies
- Modernism
- Postcolonial and Global Literatures
- The Long Contemporary
You then choose one or two modules from a wide range of options that changes each year. Modules may include:
- American Romanticism
- Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
- Global Shakespeare
- James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
- Terror, Transgresssion and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
- The Thousand and One Nights
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 3
You will take two advanced creative writing modules from a list that changes each year. Modules may include:
- Creative Writing Advanced Fiction: Serious Play - Ludic Strategies for Writing Fiction
- Creative Writing Advanced Poetry: The Poetics of Translation
- Creative Writing and Performance
- Creative Writing Nonfiction: Illness and Experience
- Narrative Theory for Creative Writers
You then choose one from:
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- English Research Dissertation
You choose the rest of your final year modules (including at least one 30 credit module) from a wide range of options that changes each year.
Modules may include
- British Fictions of the 1960s
- Feminism(s)
- Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
- Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 - 1600
- Jane Austen: Regency Novelist
- Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
- Michel Foucault
- Reading William Blake
- Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
- Time, Narrative and Culture
- Writing Black and Asian Britain
- Writing Empire: the eighteenth century
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
