BA (Hons) English Bachelor's degree at Strathclyde

Introduction to the study of English at university level offering foundation for students interested in historical and critical analysis of literary texts and creative writing. Covers how historical and social contexts shape literature, literary text construction, genre, form, and language.

Situates texts in context from genre to historical period and theory. Texts include poetry, drama, novels, short stories, life writing, and screenplays with choice between critical and creative writing responses.

Explores how Scottish fiction and drama of the 20th and 21st centuries creates the idea of Scotland.

Looks at a range of literary texts and how they interpret and create the idea of 'human' at different points in history.

Introduces major forms and themes in the 20th century American novel with contemporary content. Investigates how major social and historical issues have shaped American novels and how the novel form has developed. Topics include the suburbs and city, legacy of slavery, queer life, migration and travel.

Studies literature of the Victorian period (1837-1901) including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose in contemporary political, social and cultural contexts. Themes include crisis of faith, science and evolutionary theory, realism, medievalism, literature and visual arts, poetic genres, popular fiction, the Woman Question, Empire, new journalism, and representations of the city and technology.

Explores twentieth-century English literature with focus on fiction, poetry, and drama. Examines major literary figures from first half of century including Woolf and Stein with emphasis on Modernism and later 20th century writers such as Spark, McGrath and Smith.

Focuses on drama from 1580s to 1642 examining transgression in plays. Reads major dramatists including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and Middleton alongside writing by Burton, Bacon and Machiavelli. Explores how ideas about sex, revenge and corruption are developed through stage and influential thinkers' work.

Approaches questions of 'writing the body' through studying literary, visual, and theoretical engagements with the body in late 20th and 21st-century culture. Engages with gender theory, queer theory, critical race theory, and disability theory.

Offers practical work-based experience (minimum 60 hours) in area professionally related to BA such as publishing, literary agency, or teaching.

Taught through practice-led workshops, introduces innovative contemporary literatures as basis for craft-focused writing activities. Engages with discussion of set creative texts and workshops on genre, form and authorship with diverse writing techniques across poetry and short fiction.

Teaches reading, thinking and writing like screenwriters. Examines difference between writing for page and screen. Uses mixture of classic feature films and contemporary film and TV including Scottish short films.

Examines how contemporary authors make sense of gendered experience. Investigates cultural practices of writing and rewriting gender in 21st century including transgender memoirs, autofictional masculinities, romance novels, and queer graphic novels. Covers impact of feminist activism on publishing industry.

Introduces twenty-first-century science fiction from across the globe creating alternative technological bodies and worlds. Focuses on four key critical lenses: race, colonialism, disability, sexuality and gender. Explores how worlds, bodies and relations are represented and reimagined.

Explores the concept of 'the wild' in Renaissance writings in relation to self-cultivation, control of world, and relations with fellow humans. Covers poetic use of gardens, religious underpinnings of missionary endeavour in New World, and anxious self-examination of humanity's sinfulness.