English and Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Leicester, United Kingdom
DURATION
36 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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Introduction
English and Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Combines the study of English literature, English language and creative writing to help you learn new skills in a wide range of subject areas.
Core topics explore the evolution of the English language and how it has been employed by society for communication along with analysis and exploration of critical texts within English literature.
The creative writing modules will provide you with a firm technical foundation in the craft, helping you to write for a range of media, including print and digital forms, drawing on DMU’s expertise in digital humanities while at the same time developing your own writing in exciting and creative directions.
You will join a lively and welcoming academic community, where you can study a range of topics including Shakespeare, screen and literary adaptations of the classics, romantic and Victorian literature and sociolinguistics
Our graduates are highly employable owing to their highly developed communication and reasoning skills and their ability to work independently and as part of a group. Many have progressed into professions including media, translation, freelance writing, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service.
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Curriculum
First year
Core modules:
- Approaches to Reading and Writing
- Evolving Language: An Introduction to Histories of Language
- Exploring Creative Writing
- Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
Second year
Core module:
- Exploration and Innovation: 14th Century to 18th Century Literature
Optional modules (including at least 30 credits in English Language and 30 credits in Creative Writing modules):
- Ways of Reading
- Screen and Literary Adaptations of the Classics
- Text Technologies
- Sex and Death in Romantic Writing
- Victorian Literature
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Millennial World Fiction
- Sociolinguistics
- English Language in UK Schools
- Introducing English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
- Language in Context
- Grammar: Analysing Linguistic Structure
- Semantics: Analysing Linguistic Meaning
- Research Methods for Linguists
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Word, Image, Sound
- Writing Place
Third year
Core module:
- English Literature Dissertation OR
- English Language Dissertation OR
- Professional Writing Skills
Optional modules:
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- English in the Workplace
- Modernism and Modernity
- Medieval.com
- Textual Studies Using Computers
- Radical and Contemporary Adaptations
- Writing Adaptations: Theory and Practice
- Revolutionary Men, Unruly Women: Politics and Gender at the Fin de Siècle,1880-1900
- Watching Early Modern Drama: Spectatorship and Fandom
- The 21st Century Global Franchise: Adapting the Wizarding World
- English Language in the Workplace
- Corpus Linguistics
- Powerful Language
- Language, Mind and Culture
- Perception, Persuasion, Power
- Language Acquisition
- Creative Writing Portfolio
- Specialism and Negotiated Study
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Career Opportunities
English and Creative Writing graduates are highly employable with strong communication and reasoning skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a group. We develop our students’ information analysis and presentation skills to produce articulate, adaptable, professional communicators who can operate with ease in any setting and with any group of people.