Creative and Professional Writing induction information

About your programme

Module information

You’ll complete your course one block or ‘semester’ at a time. In each semester you’ll study modules. Some are core modules you have to take – others you’ll be able to choose between when you arrive, personalising the course to your interests.

In your first semester you will study the following modules:

• Current Writers and Writing 

Current Writers and Writing

This module introduces students to a range of writers predominantly from the UK and Ireland who have helped shape the contemporary literary landscape. The course looks in particular at voice – at how writers demonstrate their individuality in their writing – and encourages students to think about and develop their own voices.

• Credits: 20
• Critical Theory and Literature 

Critical Theory and Literature

This module provides you with a solid foundation on the body of thinking called ‘critical’ or ‘literary theory’, and is hence fundamental to literary study.

Starting with theories of reading and cultural criticism from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, we move to the various structuralist and postmodern theories of the late twentieth century, and to theories that engage with some of the central debates of our time such as Eco-criticism and gender studies.

You will also be introduced to key classical literary texts to which these theories may be applied including a range of novels, short stories, and/or poetry.

• Film, Style and Form Optional

Film, Style and Form (Optional)

This module introduces you to film and television style. Beginning with a consideration of the variety of forms and approaches to the moving image, you will consider the micro elements of cinema such as mise en scène, cinematography, editing, sound, montage and special effects.

You will also consider the macro structures such as narrative and genre, with a focus also on the identities of the producers, performers and audiences for screen industries.

Further information about the structure of your course can be found within the programme specification document.