BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English with Foundation Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Critical thinking is fundamental to our ability to progress in an increasingly complex and changing world. It is an essential skill across a range of academic and practice-based disciplines. This module helps you understand the importance and function of critical thinking both at university and beyond. By working in partnership with academic staff and peers, you will explore how critical thinking aligns with disciplinary practices, shapes scholarly knowledge, and addresses inequalities. Through

This module introduces you to the concepts of history and memory. Using topical case studies, the module invites you to consider how the past is related to the present and how history and memory are constituted, challenged and constantly evolving. Through the module, history is made relevant to you by asking to whom history and historical objects belong and what they mean to individuals and society.

This module introduces contemporary political questions in the global context. Current political issues such as statelessness, politics of underdevelopment, power and inequality, and climate change will be discussed and analysed. The idea of nations and nationhood features prominently in the module, as do the issues related to faith, religion and ideological belief. The module is designed to introduce concepts and themes such as democracy, power and politics, inequality, global society, human ri

This module provides a foundation in the theory and practice of intercultural communication, to help you better understand the complexities of communicating with people from other cultures. You'll explore what is meant by culture and the relationship between cultures and identities and examine how culture influences you and others. You will reflect on how the language and non-verbal communication you use can impact understandings and what strategies you can develop to manage misunderstandings bo

This module introduces you to the key academic, professional, and personal skills essential for success at university. It encourages good practices in writing, presentation, and time management, while also fostering reflection to help you build confidence as you transition to higher education. Open to all students enrolled in courses delivered through Westminster Foundation Pathways, the module provides a creative and supportive environment where you can reflect on and develop their academic and

This module explores some of the issues and intersections of identity through written and spoken expressions. It will include aspects such as language and gender, writing auto/biography, forms of writing, cultural identity and linguistic identity, and reading and writing about 'others' in fiction and non-fiction.

This module introduces you to creative writing genres, styles and forms such as poetry, prose, life-writing, playwriting, screenwriting, lyric writing and flash fiction.

This module introduces a series of 'keywords' that have been historically central to the study of literature, and explores these in relation to specific critical approaches to, and theoretical understandings of, literary works.

Reflective Writing 1 asks you to become analytical about your writing, both from the point of view of process and output. By critiquing your own work, and considering the writing practice of others, it aims to develop your ability to formulate answers to questions such as 'Why do I write?', 'What is the value of storytelling?', 'What are the stories I am best able to tell?' It is supported by a year-long lecture and workshop series, delivered by members of the department and outside practitioner

This module introduces you to core elements of creative writing craft. By situating your creative practice in the heart of the city, it offers the opportunity to engage with London as a 'raw material' and a treasure trove from which you are able to draw characters, stories, tones and textures while ensuring that these are underpinned by an understanding of the critical importance of 'place' in writing. The non-fiction components of the course will further examine how different 'ideas' of London

This module gives you the knowledge and skills necessary to start analysing and describing the English language systematically (according to grammar, morphology and phonology) and prepares you for future modules at Level 5. The module develops your theoretical awareness of spoken and written mediums, how they are structured, and how they can be used as linguistic data. It also gives you a thorough understanding of the concepts of style, register and genre, and introduces you to some of the main

This module introduces some of the most exciting developments in poetry over the last 200 years. It examines how poetry intervenes in the modern world, exploring the role poetic form plays in the poet's critique of key social and political issues. Spanning work from William Wordsworth to Frank O'Hara, Emily Dickinson to Nat Raha, the module considers issues such as the role of poetry and the poet, the politics of form, poetry's engagement with political resistance, social reform, gender, the bod

This module examines the ways in which writers work with existing and generated texts - shaping, editing or adapting them into new forms or for different purposes. In particular, it explores: working with Gen-AI; cross-form adaptation; instructional/technical/educational writing; writing press releases, blurbs and summary documents; and editorial techniques.

The core value of this module is that of apprenticeship, combining practical skill and critical judgement in the work of progressive re-drafting. There are three strands representing the forms of dramatic writing, poetry and prose fiction and students elect to follow two of the three throughout the year. The module provides an opportunity for the student to work on producing substantial pieces in their chosen forms with guidance and support from the tutor.

This module focuses on the role of the reader to the process of textual interpretation. You will be introduced to topics in cognitive poetics to examine the ways in which readers combine their real-world knowledge and their understanding of characters to create discourse worlds, and how they respond to cues in texts to build an understanding of text worlds.

Reflective Writing 2 is designed to enable you to deepen your understanding of your writing practice as you work through your level 5 studies. The module is supported by the department's year-long lecture and workshop series, delivered by members of the department and outside practitioners. You are required to attend a minimum number of these events, responding in a weekly journal to the insights and inspirations offered here and in your wider studies.