BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English Literature Bachelor's degree at De Montfort University

Both in workshops and through independent study, you will explore a wide range of short-form writing, including a variety of modes: international strict form poetry (e.g., sonnet, rondeau, terza rima, ghazal, villanelle, sestina), free verse, flash fiction, and historical flash fiction. Ethical questions about combining fact and fiction are addressed in an introduction to historical fiction. You may also explore review writing in real-world contexts and digital short-form writing on social media

Assessment: Collaborative Writing (20%) and Short Form Portfolio (80%)

This module focuses on journeys and places, offering the chance to explore key concepts underpinning your studies. You will take a post-disciplinary approach, using techniques from diverse areas to address questions related to journeys and places. Interactive lectures with students from across the School of Creative Industries and Culture provide opportunities to apply these concepts in creative writing workshops and assessments. Themes may include journeys, spaces, and the concept of welcome; (

Assessment: Subject-specific Coursework 1 (30%) and Coursework 2 (70%)

This module explores how traditional texts and digital innovations can improve your writing practice. Through core readings, including work from global majority writers and translations, you will develop craft skills in voice, form, structure, and genre. A key aim of the module is to help you optimise your growth as a writer in the digital sphere. In addition to producing creative work, you will work individually or collaboratively in a 'writers' salon'. You will lead discussions, select materia

Assessment: Writers' Salon (20%) and Portfolio (80%)

Through this module you will develop your understanding of poetic form and genre and consolidate your close-reading skills by scrutinising a range of poems and poets from different historical periods. You will explore the historical origins and development of specific poetic genres such as epic and pastoral and learn the conceptual tools and technical vocabulary needed for critical analysis of poetry at undergraduate level.

Assessment: Essay 1 (40%) and Essay 2 (60%)

This module looks at the birth of English literature, offering you an introduction to literature written between the medieval era and the early modern period. Texts will be considered in their national, cultural, and historical contexts. You will explore examples of poetry, drama and prose organised around key themes such as power, faith, love and sexuality. You will also be invited to compare early examples of English literature with some key works of European literature from this time.

Assessment: Commentary (30%) and Comparative Essay (70%)

This module is designed to prepare and support you towards the pursuit of post-degree pathways. You will focus on the specific skills, capabilities and knowledge needed to adapt and flourish in professional environments and contexts. There will be an emphasis on enhancement of core attributes, competencies and transferable skills as well as developing familiarity with the world and politics of work. The module will prepare you for diverse and dynamic working environments beyond university and su

Assessment: Written Portfolio or Recorded Presentation (100%)

This module's focus is story in the broadest sense - a subject with relevance in forms as diverse as poetry, hypertext, and all scripted work. Narrative remains a tremendously powerful tool in all aspects of media, in marketing, advertising, gaming, as well as all aspects of fiction. Main themes may include narrative arcs and structures, characterisation, pace, event, story-world, dialogue, clue-laying, revelation, and concealment, and means of involving the reader. Initially, the module will fo

Assessment: Story Craft Proposal (40%) and Story Craft Creative Work (60%)

In this module, you will explore what happens to 'classic' English texts when they are adapted into other media, genres, and eras. This exploration occurs through an analysis of two well-known literary works: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. These 'classics' are among the most highly adapted texts, and in this module, you will consider why and how they have been adapted. Workshops explore the practice of the textual transformation of iconic literary texts

The unifying theme of this module is writing for screens and with screens. In this module, you will develop skills in writing for a range of screen genres and platforms with a focus on optimising your writing practice in the 21st century writing and publishing context. Writing for and with screens provides the contemporary writer with an opportunity to revitalise creative processes, such as drafting, editing, publishing, reading and researching. Screen genres considered may include podcast, poet

Assessment: Screentime Reflection (30%) and Screentime Project (70%)

This module is concerned with how computers are able to store and process literary texts, and how this enables them to answer questions about those texts. Building on an understanding of the underlying principles of digital text, you will explore, through project work, your own literary questions that no one has thought to ask before. You will learn simple computer programming to answer your own textual questions as part of these projects.

This module examines 'World Englishes' from a global perspective, focusing on literature from postcolonial nations. You will explore themes like memory, class, and ethnicity in both written and oral traditions.

Assessment: Blog/Vlog (40%) and Research Essay (60%)

The final-year dissertation module provides you with an opportunity to work at length in a single form or genre of your choice. The aim is to produce professionally presented independent creative work. The precise composition of the dissertation will be negotiated with your tutor in accordance with departmental guidelines and must include written creative work accompanied by a critical reflective essay. You are expected to consider your own work in relation to current published work in the same

Assessment: Concept Testing (20%) and Dissertation (80%)

This module provides you with a range of appropriate professional skills and knowledge of the writing industry in its global context. Although some will be specific to the needs of creative writing practitioners, the knowledge and employability skills you gain will also be an advantage in a range of career options. Thus, it encompasses enterprise and entrepreneurship education by enabling you to develop the specific skills, capabilities and knowledge needed to adapt and flourish in different pro