English Literature and Creative Writing BA (Hons) at Northumbria University

This flexible course will enable you to do both at the same time. Learning within a strongly creative community, you’ll be set for an intellectually stimulating experience that also develops valuable transferable skills. In Literature modules you will cover topics from Shakespeare to contemporary fiction, fostering your appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of literary texts.

Faculty: School of Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Duration: 3 years Full Time or 4 years with a placement (sandwich)/study abroad  |  Study mode: full-time (optional placement/sandwich year)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 core modules: Introduction to Literary Studies, Reading Poetry, Story, Creative and Critical Practice, Talking Texts, Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present; Year 2 core modules: Early Modern Cultures, Modernism and Modernity, Thinking About Voice, Working With Structure, Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism, Pitch to Publication. Optional modules include English Dissertation, Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities, Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context, History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War, Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture, Shaking up Shakespeare.

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