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Undergraduate Course Maps 2012/13

English Literature and Creative Writing (BA) - Joint Honours Full Time - Course Map

For current students who started their course in 2011/12 academic year and earlier.
  • Course Code: EXAWT
  • Course Leader: Martin Randall / Hilary Weeks
  • Senior Tutor(s):
Each module taken by a student has a credit value (measured in Credit Accumulation and Transfer [CAT] points). Approximately 10 hours of total study time is required per CAT credit. A full-time year is equivalent to 120 CATs for students on an Undergraduate course. To achieve an undergraduate award a student must accumulate a particular number of CATs at Level 4, 5 or 6 as illustrated below: Bachelors Degree without Honours: 300 CATs Bachelors Degree with Honours: 360 CATs (or 480 with year-long placement)

Level 5

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
EX203: Essays in Theory
Prerequisites: Pass any 2 from EX Level I
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EX213: Renaissance, Revolution, Restoration : Literature 1580-1700
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX120 and pass EX122
30
EX214: Restoration to the Romantics: the Long EIghteenth Century
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX120 and pass EX122
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
WT201: Poetry, Craft and Practice
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT100 or pass WT101 or pass WT110
30
WT202: Prose, Craft and Practice
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT100 or pass WT102 or pass WT110
30
WT204: Dramatic Writing, Craft and Practice
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT104 or pass WT110
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
EX215: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality and Writing 15
EX218: Nineteenth Century American Writing
Prerequisites: Pass 2 from EX Level I
30
EX219: Crime Fiction 15
EX220: After Windrush: Contemporary Postcolonial and Black British Writing 15
EX240: Stages of Drama 2: Restoration to Realism
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX120 and Before taking this module you are advised to pass EX140
30
WT200: Writing, Re-Writing and Showcasing Your Work
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT100 or pass WT110
30
WT255: Ideas, Inspirations and contexts
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT110
15

Level 6

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
EX333: English Literature Dissertation
Prerequisites: Pass EX203 and 3 others from EX Level 5
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EX302: Modern Literary Theory
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX203
30
EX314: Explorations in Nineteenth Century Writing
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX213 or pass EX214
30
EX315: American Literature Since 1900
Prerequisites: EX218 and 1 other EX Level II
30
EX316: From Modernism to the Present: British Fiction and Poetry Since 1900
Prerequisites: Any 2 EX or WT Level II modules.
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
WT301: Poetry Masterclass
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT200 or pass WT201
30
WT302: Prose Masterclass
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT200 or pass WT202
30
WT309: Applied Dramatic Writing
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with WT304
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT204
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
EX324: Postmodernism:Subject to Sex 15
EX325: North American Women's Writing 15
EX340: Stages of Drama 3: Proscenium to Present 30
HUM388: Collaborative Project for Public Engagement 15
WT306: Creative Process: Theories and Models 15
WT309: Applied Dramatic Writing
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with WT304
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT204
30
WT350: The Novel
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass WT200 or pass WT202
15
WT374: Exploring the Self: Autobiography and Confession 15
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