YEAR 1
You will take the following modules (all compulsory):
Introduction to Creative Writing
London Global
Reading, Theory and Interpretation: approaches to the study of English Literature
Shakespeare
Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 2
You will take the following two compulsory modules
Creative Writing: Poetry and Performance
Creative Writing: Prose
You then choose a minimum of two modules from across at least two of these lists:
List One: Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

Representing London: Writing the eighteenth-century city
Romantics and Revolutionaries
Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

Modernism
Postcolonial and Global Literatures
The Long Contemporary
You then choose one or two modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include:

American Romanticism
Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
Global Shakespeare
James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
Terror, Transgresssion and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
The Thousand and One Nights
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 3
You will take two advanced creative writing modules from a list that changes each year. Modules may include:
Creative Writing Advanced Fiction: Serious Play - Ludic Strategies for Writing Fiction
Creative Writing Advanced Poetry: The Poetics of Translation
Creative Writing and Performance
Creative Writing Nonfiction: Illness and Experience
Narrative Theory for Creative Writers
You then choose one from:
Creative Writing Dissertation
English Research Dissertation
You choose the rest of your final year modules (including at least one 30 credit module) from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include
British Fictions of the 1960s
Feminism(s)
Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 - 1600
Jane Austen: Regency Novelist
Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
Michel Foucault
Reading William Blake
Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
Time, Narrative and Culture
Writing Black and Asian Britain
Writing Empire: the eighteenth century
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it