Modules for course 2P17 | BA/ENCW
BA English Literature and Creative Writing
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2021–22 academic year.
The list may not be complete, and the final course content may be different.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2020–21; 2022–23.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- QXP-1001: Creative Writing: Prose (20)
- QXP-1003: Creative Writing: Poetry (20)
- QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20)
Semester 2
- QXP-1001: Creative Writing: Prose
- QXP-1003: Creative Writing: Poetry
- QXP-1016: Children's Fiction (Creative) (20) or
QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20)
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- UXS-1001: Intro to Practical Journalism (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-1001: Cyfl. i Newyddiaduraeth Ymarf. (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-1112: Language, Literature & Culture (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXP-2001: C/Writing: Poetry & Short Fict (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2004: Creative Writing: The Novel (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2005: Transformative Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2009: Creative Non-Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) or
QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1)
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2013: Renaissance and Reformation (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) or
QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 2)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
40 credits from:
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXP-3099: Creative Writing Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
20 to 60 credits from:
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- If students have chosen the QXP dissertation they must select 60 credits from this option
20 to 60 credits from:
- QXP-3008: Cross-Cultural Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3012: Writing and Environments (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3025: Fantastic Fictions (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-3093: Experimental Writing (20) (Semester 2)
- If students have chosen the QXE dissertation they must select 60 credits from this section
Optional Modules
0 to 20 credits from:
- UXS-3025: Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3401: Practical Journalism: ELD (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-3401: Newyddiaduraeth Ymarferol: MCD (20) (Semester 1)