English Literature and Creative Writing second year modules

Students choose 120 credits of optional modules, to include a minimum of 2 Creative Writing modules and a minimum of 2 English Literature modules.

Optional modules (may include)  

English Literature Options

• Shakespeare: Elizabethan
• Shakespeare: Jacobean
• Gothic
• Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture
• Literature 1950-Present
• Restoration and Revolution
• Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature
• Popular Fiction Before the Novel
• Reading the Renaissance
• Earliest English
• Literature and the Environment
• Colonial/Postcolonial
• The Social Life of Literature
• Our Digital World
• Rags and Riches
• Aspects of Modernism
• Gender and Sexuality
• Victorian Literature

Creative Writing options

• Drama and Media Writing
• Poetry Writing
• Editing: Theory & Practice
• Prose Writing
• Identity and Cultural Narratives
• Professional Skills
• Professional Skills - Freelance