ObjectivesEnglish Language & Communication focuses on the English language itself, on how it is used to communicate, and on how we can teach it as a foreign language.
Entry requirementsThe university requires you to have at least 2 A Levels (or equivalent) to begin an Honours Undergraduate Degree Programme or at least one for a Foundation Degree. The entry requirements for undergraduate degrees are given generally in UCAS Tariff Points.
Academic titleBA English Literature with Creative Writing
Course descriptionBA English Literature with Creative Writing
Year 1
-Introduction to Poetry
-Reading Drama
-Becoming a Writer
-Readig the Short Story:Form, Technique, Theory
-Reading the Novel: Form, Technique, Theory
-The Writer's Art: an Introduction to Creative Writing
Year 2
-Studies in English Literature: Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1550-1740
-The Poem
-The Short Story: Theory and Practice
-Nineteenth Century Literature I : The Romantics, 1789-1832
-Nineteenth Century North American Writing
-Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature 2:The Victorians 1832-1901
-Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 1900-1945
-Texts and Screens: Case Studies in Literary Adaptation
-The Rise of the Novel : 1700 - 1800
-Twentieth Century North American Writing
-Writing in Britain Since 1945
Year 3
-Creative Writing: Independent Project
-Independent Study and Research Project
-Literature Project
-Writing for the Stage
-Children's Literature:Growing up in Books
-Crime, Sin and Sensation: Studies in Victorian Popular Fiction
-Eighteenth Century Bodies
-Modern African and Caribbean Writing
-Postmodern Genders
-Renaissance Tragedy
-Spies, Detectives and Flappers: Inter-war Popular Fiction
-Transatlantic Currents: Literary Exchange between Britain and North America
-Twentieth Century Authors: Case Studies
-Worlds Apart: Studies in Utopian and Dystopian Writing
-Writing About Men (B)
-Writing Now: Identity Politics in the Contemporary Novel