You study a set number of optional 20-credit modules before undertaking a 60-credit creative writing dissertation in the second part of the course. The wide mix of modules includes long fiction, writing radio drama, screenwriting, James Joyce and literary theory, global media and comparative journalism.

MA 2 Year Full-time
Year 1 (Level 7T)
FHEQ 7 Taught Masters / PGDip / PGCert
Students choose 120 credits from the following:

Compulsory Modules
None found.

Optional Modules
Compulsory modules selective
Choose Exactly 40 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Students must select two of the three TB1 modules listed below.

Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Long Fiction 1 September-January 20 EN-M34
Genre: Writing for the Stage September-January 20 EN-M35
Poetry 1 September-January 20 EN-M36
AND
Optional Modules
Choose Minimum Of 60 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : MA CW 2-yr P/T students to choose up to three per academic year and no more than 2 in one semester; – please note that you need to have selected 2 of the compulsory (selective) modules overall. To Take EN-M78 you must have successfully completed EN-M34. To Take EN-M40 you must have successfully completed EN-M36

Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Long Fiction 1 September-January 20 EN-M34
Genre: Writing for the Stage September-January 20 EN-M35
Poetry 1 September-January 20 EN-M36
Creative Non-Fiction September-January 20 EN-M68
Screenwriting September-January 20 MS-M01
Writing the Self January-June 20 EN-M37
Poetry 2 January-June 20 EN-M40
Writing Radio Drama January-June 20 EN-M57
Long Fiction 2 January-June 20 EN-M78
AND
Options 2: English Literature / Media Modules
Choose Maximum Of 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Credits permitting Creative Writing students may take English Literature/Welsh Writing in English modules at the discretion of the Literature MA Programme Director. MS-M12 is offered by the Media Department.

Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Dylan Thomas and the Rise of Welsh Writing in English September-January 20 EN-M45
James Joyce and Literary Theory September-January 20 EN-M69
After Macbeth: The Scottish Play on Screen September-January 20 EN-M79
Practising Ideas: Advanced Research Skills in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English September-January 20 EN-M80
Agonies and Ecstasies: Saints and Mystics in the Middle Ages September-January 20 EN-M85
Publishing: Cultures and Contexts September-January 20 EN-M89
Digital Journalism Portfolio September-January 20 MS-M12
Welsh Identities: literature and nationhood January-June 20 EN-M42
Angela Carter January-June 20 EN-M67
Modernist writing in London, Paris and New York January-June 20 EN-M75
Neo-Victorian Children’s and Young Adult Fiction January-June 20 EN-M86
Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Environmental Imagination January-June 20 EN-M87
Year 2 (Level 7D)
FHEQ 7 Taught Masters Dissertation
Students choose 120 credits from the following:

Compulsory Modules
None found.

Optional Modules
Compulsory Modules
Choose Exactly 120 credits from the following Modules:

Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Creative Writing Dissertation September-June 60 ENMD00
University of Central Oklahoma (Semester Study Abroad) June-September 60 EN-MX10

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