Modules for course W890 | BA/CPW
BA Creative&Professional Writing
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2022–23 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 2021–22.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
The student must take 60 credits
from the modules in Compulsory Modules.
QXP-1001
Creative Writing: Prose
(20)
(Full Term)
QXP-1003
Creative Writing: Poetry
(20)
(Full Term)
QXE-1013
Reading, Thinking, Writing
(20)
(Semester 1)
Optional Modules
The student must take 60 credits
from the modules in Optional Modules.
QXE-1014
The Gothic in Literature/Film
(20)
(Semester 1)
QXE-1003
Intro. to Medieval Literature
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXE-1004
The Literature of Laughter
(20)
(Semester 2)
Intro To Practical Journalism The student may not take more than 1 of the modules in Intro To Practical Journalism.
UXC-1001
Cyfl. i Newyddiaduraeth Ymarf.
Cymraeg
(20)
(Semester 1)
UXS-1001
Intro to Practical Journalism
(20)
(Semester 1)
Children's Fiction The student may not take more than 1 of the modules in Children's Fiction.
QXE-1016
Children's Fiction
(20)
(Semester 2)
QXP-1016
Children's Fiction (Creative)
(20)
(Semester 2)
Intro To Media Practice The student may not take more than 1 of the modules in Intro To Media Practice.
UXC-1038
Cyf. i Ymarfer y Cyfryngau
Cymraeg
(20)
(Semester 2)
UXS-1038
Intro' to Media Practice
(20)
(Semester 2)
Film Language The student may not take more than 1 of the modules in Film Language.
Visual Cultures The student may not take more than 1 of the modules in Visual Cultures.
Year 2 Modules
Optional Modules
100 to 120 credits from:
- QXP-2001: C/Writing: Poetry & Short Fict (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2004: Creative Writing: The Novel (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2009: Creative Non-Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2021: America on Film (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2033: Practical Digital Journalism (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2046: Media, Politics & Society (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2052: Radio: Theory and Practice (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2053: Film Industry Development (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2063: Digital Advertising 20 credits (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2064: Film Theory (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2068: Practical Film Criticism (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2075: Short Film Production (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2093: Experimental Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2099: Research and Methods (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2100: Digital Journalism & Society (20) (Semester 2)
0 to 20 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- LXE-2025: Reading Fantastic Literatures (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
- QXL-2222: History of English (20) (Semester 1)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
40 credits from:
- QXP-3099: Creative Writing Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3900: Research Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3902: Enterprise Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
Optional Modules
80 credits from:
- UXS-3019: America on Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and Early Modern L (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3025: Fantastic Fictions (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3033: Practical Digital Journalism (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3036: E-Publishing (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3052: Advanced Radio Practice (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3053: Film Industry Development (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3074: Short Film Production (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-3093: Experimental Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3100: Digital Journalism & Society (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-3109: Creative Non-Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3402: Media History (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS3800 may only be taken with UXS3801