DPT: Creative Writing (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCCRWRI1F)

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

Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry (Level 11)

Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version)

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.
Please note that students who take the Translation and Creativity course need to have another working language in addition to English (e.g., their mother tongue or B1 in CEFR, or they must have graduated with this language at UG level).

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Translation and Creativity

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

Shakespearean Sexualities

The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature

Black American Fiction

Modernism: Text, Image, Object (Level 11)

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

Fiction and Espionage

The Queer Eighteenth Century

Illness Narratives through History (PG version)

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