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This module introduces you to the scholarly requirements of study in HE and some of the core elements that underpin the study of both literature and creative writing. The module concentrates on key requirements in terms of study skills (e.g. writing styles, giving a presentation), research skills (retrieving and referencing information) and self-management skills (knowing your learning style, identifying areas for improvement, producing a personal development plan). The module will also enable you to identify some of the social and cultural factors that determine the creation and analysis of writing: class, gender, culture, and media, for example. In order to outline the significance of both scholarly skills and these contextual aspects to English and Creative Writing disciplines, these skills and ideas will be explored within the context of a particular area of content central to that particular subject. The module will seek to develop not only knowledge but also the various practical and conceptual tools that will provide you with a firm foundation for future success in your degree programme.

This module introduces you to the scholarly requirements of study in HE and some of the core elements that underpin the study of both literature and creative writing. The module concentrates on key requirements in terms of study skills (e.g. writing styles, giving a presentation), research skills (retrieving and referencing information) and self-management skills (knowing your learning style, identifying areas for improvement, producing a personal development plan). The module will also enable you to identify some of the social and cultural factors that determine the creation and analysis of writing: class, gender, culture, and media, for example. In order to outline the significance of both scholarly skills and these contextual aspects to English and Creative Writing disciplines, these skills and ideas will be explored within the context of a particular area of content central to that particular subject. The module will seek to develop not only knowledge but also the various practical and conceptual tools that will provide you with a firm foundation for future success in your degree programme.

The module will continue the development of critical analysis and creative expression begun at HE4. You will study and critique a range of published and performed creative works, applying your understanding of the techniques and theories encountered during Level 1 creative modules in order to elucidate and appraise the professional creative work of others. As well as producing critical reviews, you will encounter a range of other articles written for publication, similarly identifying the creative techniques inherent to some of these articles in order to produce your own. Through tutor and peer feedback, you will gain a deeper appreciation of the writing process, from imaginative inception and research to redrafting and self-reflection, in order to take notes and draft pieces to completed works. You will also critically reflect on your learning experience of writing for publication, relating this to your wider creative development. Graduate Attributes: Global Citizen, Lifelong Learning.

This module offers an innovative, research-led approach to critically examining themes of gender, sex and criminality in the Victorian period. Active participants in practice-based research collaboration, students will explore a range of canonical texts in combination with a diverse and rich array of archival, digitised online resources. Students will have the opportunity to examine contemporary materials such as literary magazines, newspaper articles and visual imagery, in order to explore how such sources help to contextualise and enrich our interpretation of canonical texts. With advanced research skills and methods embedded within the teaching delivery, the module will consider how this kind of research may fill the textual gaps of the canonical writings, concluding with an examination of how the Victorians are re-imagined in the twenty-first century. Finally, students will develop their own areas of research interest in relation to the key themes explored on the module, presenting a record of their ongoing research findings and therein re-presenting the Victorians.

This module is designed to give you the opportunity to pursue substantial individual research resulting in a final, cumulative dissertation which examines a topic of your choice both creatively and critically. The remit of your creative project will be agreed in advance with your supervising tutor. You might choose between a collection of poems, long or short stories, a novel extract, a specific work of drama. You will have the option to continue and develop creative work begun in one of the Writers’ Room modules, though you can initiate a stand-alone project for this module.

You will be expected to provide several drafts of your creative work at various stages of its development. It will be possible for you to propose appropriate multi-media or cross-genre work to enable you to develop a sense of originality and individual purpose, and to respond to work in the professional field. However, you would normally be expected to work in fields related to one of the specialised areas taken at HE4 and HE5.

This will be accompanied by an essay of 3,000 words which critically examines a topic directly related to your creative work, in terms of creative action and/or contextual critical analysis.