English Literature and Creative Writing BA Hons

at University of Kent

Program structure

Stage 1

Compulsory modules currently include

• ENGL3360 - Changing Literatures: From Chaucer to the Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL3370 - Thinking Through Theory (30 credits)

• ENGL3390 - Creative Writing Foundations (30 credits)

Optional modules may include

• ENGL3410 - Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures (15 credits)

• ENGL3430 - Romantic Ecologies & the Modern Invention of Nature (15 credits)

• ENGL3440 - 'Black Girl Magic': Contemporary Feminisms (15 credits)

Stage 2

Optional modules may include

• ENGL6720 - Reading Victorian Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6770 - The Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL6810 - Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6850 - Elements of Fiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6890 - Modernism (30 credits)

• ENGL6940 - Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (30 credits)

• ENGL6950 - Empire, New Nations and Migration (30 credits)

• ENGL6970 - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL7210 - American Modernities: US Literature in the 20th Century (30 credits)

• ENGL7310 - Interactive and Immersive Fictions (30 credits)

• ENGL7320 - Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health (30 credits)

• ENGL7330 - Poetic Entanglements: Approaching Lyrical Writing Procedures (30 credits)

Stage 3

Optional modules may include

• ENGL5800 - Charles Dickens and Victorian England (30 credits)

• ENGL5830 - Postcolonial Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL6001 - The Project (English) (30 credits)

• ENGL6002 - LGBTQ Narratives: Queer Writing from Britain and Ireland (30 credits)

• ENGL6003 - #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics (30 credits)

• ENGL6040 - The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6320 - Reading and Writing The Innovative Contemporary Novel (30 credits)

• ENGL6330 - Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6550 - Places, Journeys, Borders (30 credits)

• ENGL6580 - American Crime Fiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6760 - Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives (30 credits)

• ENGL7080 - Virginia Woolf (30 credits)

• ENGL7090 - Animals, Humans, Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL7130 - The New Woman: 1880-1920 (30 credits)

• ENGL7250 - A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe (30 credits)

• ENGL7290 - Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance (30 credits)