Modules for course W89P | BA/CPWP
BA Creative and Professional Writing with Placement Year
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.
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
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- UXS-1001: Intro to Practical Journalism (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-1016: Children's Fiction (Creative) (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1038: Intro' to Media Practice (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1062: Film Language (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-1066: Visual Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
Year 3 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 4 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