English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons)

COURSE INFORMATION (2010 ENTRY)

3 years full-time

School of Arts and Social Science
Lipman Building, Newcastle City Campus

English and Creative Writing at Northumbria fully engages literature and writing. We encourage aspiring writers within a supportive but critical writing community in fiction, poetry, media writing, journalism and drama, whilst at the same time covering a broad range of literary material stretching from the Renaissance to the post-modern. Types and definitions of literature and writing are discussed and interrogated, with the intentions of examining key concepts and debates in the disciplines and discussing the methodologies and theories which inform our reading and writing of texts. Throughout the three years students will be taught by experts, including a range of different writers.

N.B. This information applies to 2010 entry - if you are interested in 2011 entry, please contact us

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CAREERS

Graduates of English and Creative Writing have excellent communication skills and are versatile, critical and creative individuals who are highly employable in a variety of sectors. Graduates will be especially wellsuited for careers in advertising and marketing, journalism, publishing, multimedia, PR and communications, editorial, arts and cultural management.

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COURSE MODULES

Year 1

EL0001 - Personal and Professional Development (CORE, 0 Credits)

EL0400 - Introducing Poetry (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0401 - Introducing Prose (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0423 - Introduction to Literary Studies (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0424 - Approaches to 18th and 19th Century Literature (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0425 - Thinking Texts (CORE, 20 Credits)

PA0112 - Story (CORE, 20 Credits)

Year 2

EL0001 - Personal and Professional Development (CORE, 0 Credits)

EL0500 - Poetry and its Forms (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0501 - Studies in Short Fiction (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0506 - Textual Studies (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0509 - Modernism and Modernity (CORE, 20 Credits)

EL0527 - Early Modern Cultures (CORE, 20 Credits)

PA0221 - Film Writing (CORE, 20 Credits)

Year 3

EL0001 - Personal and Professional Development (CORE, 0 Credits)

EL0600 - Creative Writing Project (OPTION, 40 Credits)

EL0602 - American Gothic (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0603 - Theorizing Difference: Gender, Sexuality & Ethnicity (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0604 - Violent Femmes: Women in Post-War Popular Culture (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0605 - Modern American Poetry (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0606 - Gender & Identity in 18th Century Writing (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0607 - Gender and Self in the Writing of the Romantic Period (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0609 - Sexuality Matters: Theory, Culture, Identities (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0611 - English Literature 1850-1900 (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0612 - English Literature 1790-1850 (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0615 - English Dissertation (OPTION, 40 Credits)

EL0627 - Staging the City: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0630 - Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0631 - Writing for Performance (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0632 - Writing the Body 1660-1800 (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0633 - Writing the Body 1800-1900 (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0638 - Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0639 - Middlemarch: Text and Context (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0640 - American Dream, American Nightmare: Recent Crime Fiction from Ellroy to Pelecanos (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0642 - James Joyce's Ulysses (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0644 - Reading the American Man (OPTION, 20 Credits)

EL0645 - Advanced Creative Writing (OPTION, 20 Credits)

PA0331 - Writing For Radio and TV (OPTION, 20 Credits)

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