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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

An alternative 20 credit optional course may be substituted with the permission of the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

Creative Writing Core Course 1

Must be taken during Semester 1

Creative Writing Core Course 2

Must be taken during Semester 2

MSc Creative Writing Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

Following are the dedicated fiction and recommended poetry option courses for students enrolled in the Creative Writing MSc. An alternative 20 credit elective course from the following list may be substituted, if places are available.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Acts of Story-Telling: Narrator, Text, Audience

Poetry and Northern Ireland

Postcritique: From Theory to Practice

Modern Poetry: 1922-1927 (PG Version)

OR

Alternatively, Creative Writing students can elect to enroll in another 20 credit literature option course, if places are available. The following courses are recommended alternatives for Creative Writing students (and please note that some are 10-credit courses, in which case two must be chosen):

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Theatre, Performance, Performativity

Creating Visual Narratives (fusion on-site)

Writing Speculative Fiction (fusion on-site)

Gamifying Historical Narratives (fusion on-site)

Documentary Narrative in Health: Plan Your Story (fusion online)

Joyce and Style

The Long Summer: Edwardian Texts and Contexts, 1900-1910

The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature

Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature

Modernism: Text, Image, Object (Level 11)

Censorship (PG Version)

Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (PG Version)

Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose (PG Version)

Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940 (PG Version)

The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (PG Version)

Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version)

The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version)

Global LGBT Fiction

The Queer Eighteenth Century

Illness Narratives through History (PG version)

Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind

Great Victorian Novel

Rethinking the Early Modern Book

Literary Geography, 1800-1840

Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century

AND

Following are the dedicated fiction and recommended poetry option courses for students enrolled in the Creative Writing MSc. An alternative 20 credit elective course from the following list may be substituted, if places are available.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Exploring the Novel

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry (Level 11)

OR

Alternatively, Creative Writing students can elect to enroll in another 20 credit literature option course, if places are available. The following courses are recommended alternatives for Creative Writing students:

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Theatre, Performance, Performativity

Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing

Postcolonial Writing

The Literary Absolute

Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Joyce and Style

Charles Dickens

Shakespearean Sexualities

Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing

The American Novel, 1920-1960

Censorship (PG Version)

Republican Visions (PG Version)

Contemporary Science Fiction (PG Version)

Fiction and Espionage

Paradise Lost

Medical Ethics in Literature

The American Novel 1970-2010

21st Century Black American Fiction

Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism

Narratives of Migration in Contemporary World Literature

Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

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