CREATIVE WRITING AND PERFORMANCE 2017/18 SEMESTER 1 MODULES

DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: The Practice of Literary Criticism

MODULE CODE: AME_4_PLC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday and Wednesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am - 12pm (Monday) and 10am - 1pm (Wednesday)

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Students attend both sessions

This module takes an interactive approach to the study of literature and aims to enhance students’ academic writing skills by integrating the practice of reading and the practice of
writing into the teaching of the module. The module uses a selection of poetry, short prose narrative, drama and non-fiction and will focus on a stylistics-based identification of
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patterns of words, phrases and analyses of grammatical features. The module introduces students to critical responses to specific works of literature and facilitates their written and
oral engagement with examples of literary criticism and narrative theory.
DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Understanding Poetry

MODULE CODE: AME_4_UNP

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 1pm – 5pm

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

This module establishes a common understanding of elements of poetic discourse. Students will also be asked to analyse a selection of poetry and will be introduced to the basic
terminology of poetic analysis. The unit will depend to a large extent on the material contained in weekly hand-outs and in the two core reading texts. Sessions are structured
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around a discussion of the formal aspects of poetry and include the following: verse form; diction, rhythm and meter; metaphor. The module also focuses on the skills required to
write about the selection of poetry studied.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Introduction to Creative Writing I: Short Stories

MODULE CODE: AAP_4_CW1 1

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Thursday and Friday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 9am – 1pm

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

This module introduces students to essential elements of the creative writing process, focusing on prose fiction. Classes will include structured writing activities and homework
assignments designed to develop specific technical and creative abilities. Reading and discussion of published short stories will develop theoretical and analytical skills, enabling
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students to analyse their own and others’ work. By the end of the module, students will have completed a portfolio of short prose fiction for assessment. The module helps to
establish good writing habits and presentation skills, as well as developing a critical vocabulary that will be useful to students throughout their degree.
DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Critical Approaches to Literature

MODULE CODE: AME_5_CAL

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Wednesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am – 11am and 11am – 12pm

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introductory Literature modules

The unit introduces students to a range of terms and issues which aid critical analysis and encourage students to develop a vocabulary of analytical language which can be used in
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the unit’s seminars and, as appropriate, in other units on the degree.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Realism

MODULE CODE: AAP_5_CER

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Friday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am – 2pm

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introductory Literature modules

This module looks closely at the development of the novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries. Texts are located within their social and historical contexts, and explored
in relation to the transition from rural to urban economies and settlements; the growth of the metropolis; the ‘condition’ of the working classes under industrialisation; women’s
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aspirations to independence; the margins. Students study examples of the social realist text, the ‘condition of England’ novel, the fin de siècle text, naturalism. Through a close
analysis of both form and content, students develop their understanding of the novel’s narrative technique, structure, and generic fluidity.
DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Tragedy to the English Renaissance

MODULE CODE: AME_5_TER

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Tuesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 9am – 11am and 12pm – 2pm

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

This Module studies the Greek and English Renaissance stages and explores original staging conditions, developing students’ understanding of the relationship between space,
architecture and meaning, as well as examining their respective social contexts. We will examine the original performance conditions of each period and analyse the relationship of
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form to meaning paying particular attention to changing concepts of dramatic tragedy. Many of the plays are quite short, but that said, the reading for this Module is fairly heavy; the
goal in setting the syllabus has been to expose students to a representative variety of tragic drama in the periods under examination.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Writing for Stage and Screen: An Introduction

MODULE CODE: AAP_5_WSS

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

Writing for Stage and Screen offers students an introduction to the craft of dramatic writing. Students develop an original idea through an outline to a completed short (15 minute)
script. Through reading play texts and screenplays, watching films and plays, reading about theory and a visit from a professional playwright, the students learn to watch theatre and
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film critically and develop their own creative practice. The course is practice-based, including writing exercises in every class, as well as writing workshops where students can support
each other in script development.
DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Truthful Fabrications: Narrative nonfiction

MODULE CODE: AAP_5_TFN

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 9am – 1pm

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

This module introduces students to the challenge of telling stories drawn from real life. Through a process of reading, discussion and practical exercises, students will learn how to
combine the techniques of fiction with direct observation and research to create vivid, engaging and factually accurate narratives. Students will be encouraged to analyse and
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experiment with different forms of nonfiction, including biography, family history, the braided personal essay, reportage, food and travel writing. Students will learn basic research
methods and explore the ethical issues that can arise when writing about real people and events.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Shakespeare: Text and Performance

MODULE CODE: AME_6_STP

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am – 2pm

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature, or reasonable equivalent

This unit offers students the chance to engage with a selection of Shakespeare’s drama, on the page, on stage and on film. Shakespeare’s range as a dramatist will be conveyed by
moving from the early to the late plays, and exploring examples of comedy, history and tragedy. We will be applying feminist theory to a number of the texts as well as exploring
responses to interpreting the texts by actors and directors. The module will explore Shakespeare’s dramatic texts and changing approaches to their production since their original
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performances in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. In the opening lecture and in our work on individual plays, we will explore the work of Shakespeare in the context of the
politics, religion, social conditions of his own time and ours. We will explore the impact of performers, directors, legislators and critics on the reception and production of
Shakespeare’s work at different key points.
DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Adaptation and Dramatisation

MODULE CODE: AME_6_ADM

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Thursday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 9am – 1pm

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature and Writing

This module introduces key concepts and approaches to adapting literature – such as novels, biographies and plays – into screenplays for media such as film and television. Students
DESCRIPTION OF MODULE will be taught how to centre adaptation practice on critical reading of narratives; how to transfer narrative prose into dramatic form; and how to adapt structure, plot, character and
dialogue for the screenplay.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Single Author Study: Postcolonial Writers

MODULE CODE: AME_6_SPW

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 1pm – 5pm

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature

The module takes a postcolonial theoretical approach to selected postcolonial novels. Texts chosen are written from or about India, Africa and the Caribbean. We use these texts to
look at the recent histories of colonialism, migration and the formation of nation states. The module connects these texts through a focus on the following concepts: colonial
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histories and the relationship of the past and the present; diaspora; postcolonial identities; location and geography; liminality; hybridity; traditions of resistance and opposition;
gender, “writing back”/intertexuality; culture and class.
DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Shakespeare: Text & Performance

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature, or reasonable equivalent.

This unit offers students the chance to engage with a selection of Shakespeare’s drama, on the page, on stage and on film. Shakespeare’s range as a dramatist will be conveyed by
moving from the early to the late plays, and exploring examples of comedy, history and tragedy. We will be applying feminist theory to a number of the texts as well as exploring
responses to interpreting the texts by actors and directors. The module will explore Shakespeare’s dramatic texts and changing approaches to their production since their original
DESCRIPTION OF MODULE
performances in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. In the opening lecture and in our work on individual plays, we will explore the work of Shakespeare in the context of
the politics, religion, social conditions of his own time and ours. We will explore the impact of performers, directors, legislators and critics on the reception and production of
Shakespeare’s work at different key points.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Modernism and the City

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature, or reasonable equivalent.

The module will focus on the cultural practices and technologies of urbanity modernity and investigate how these are represented in and engender the stylistic, structural and
linguistic features of literary modernism. The primary texts studied will be modernist novels and poetry (1890 – 1930) with a focus on topoi such as the motorcar, the
DESCRIPTION OF MODULE café, and the cinema. An important element of the module is the study of critical and cultural theory on the city in modernism. Students will be asked to appraise texts which engage
with these theoretical approaches and concerns. Students will be required to study and research a topos/individual author in depth, focusing on characteristic literary styles
and preoccupations, as well as engage with relevant theory.

DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Contemporary Fiction

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature, or reasonable equivalent.

This module offers students the opportunity to examine in detail a selection of late twentieth-century and twenty-first century fiction. The texts selected reflect different cultural
contexts and represent a range of stylistic, structural and linguistic responses to popular, theoretical and cultural issues. All the texts studied are, in different ways, ground
DESCRIPTION OF MODULE breaking and innovative. An important focus of the module is the study of critical and cultural theory that includes or reflects contemporary responses to the postmodern, a
preoccupation with globalization, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, trauma and contemporary theories of affect. Students will be asked to appraise texts which engage with these
theoretical approaches and concerns.
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DEPARTMENT: English with Creative Writing

MODULE TITLE: Film Adaptation

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introduction to Literature, or reasonable equivalent.

This module introduces key concepts and approaches to adapting literary work into film. We’ll examine key issues related to the transfer of structure, plot, character and dialogue
DESCRIPTION OF MODULE from source material such as novels, memoirs and plays into another medium, film. As well as the process of adaptation, the transference of prose into dramatic form also
implicates the process of dramatisation, and much of this module will be concerned with that process too.
DEPARTMENT: Journalism

MODULE TITLE: Journalism Foundations

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_JOF

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, (Thursday)

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: Mon: 11am - 1pm, Tue: 10am - 1pm, Wed: 11am - 1pm, (Thu 10am - 4pm)

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 40

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Students must attend all sessions. Thursday session is only weeks 4 & 7.

DESCRIPTION OF MODULE This module introduces students to documentation used for tendering in the construction industry and the techniques used to measure and document construction work.
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DEPARTMENT: Journalism

MODULE TITLE: Digital Journalism 1

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_DJ1

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday and Tuesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 2pm - 5pm (Monday) and 2pm - 5pm (Tuesday)

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

The media industry expects fresh entrants to have practical competence in, and knowledge of, a range of digital skills, enabling a story to be told in a variety of mediums suitable for
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online publication. This module seeks to offer students an introduction to these skills.

DEPARTMENT: Journalism

MODULE TITLE: Global Journalism

MODULE CODE: CRT_5_GLJ

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

Global Journalism will take as its starting point the economic, cultural and political shifts that have taken place since the 1990s. The module will explore contemporary ideas about
‘the global’ and critically examine both the utopian and dystopian claims that have been made about global culture and technologies and the role of contemporary journalism. The
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module will focus on a number of key debates in relation to developments in journalism; the nature of globalisation itself, the emergence of global civil society and citizen journalism
and ideas of press freedom. The module will also include contemporary case studies of global news events and journalists’ role in reporting them.
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DEPARTMENT: Journalism

MODULE TITLE: Media Law and Ethics

MODULE CODE: CRT_6_MLE

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Thursday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am – 2pm

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

This module consolidates the legal and regulatory concepts embedded in the level 4 and 5 modules and complements the Cross Platform Journalism co-requisite in level 5 where
students produce journalism across platforms using multimedia content on-the-day. The module aims to deepen the student’s understanding of the legal and social
DESCRIPTION OF MODULE responsibilities incumbent on journalistic production in preparation for employment and real world context. Using the framework offered by regulatory bodies and both national and
international legal institutions, students will critically explore the everchanging environment in which journalists operate. Students will evolve their understanding of ethical practice
through debates around freedom of expression, privacy, the public interest and media pluralism.

DEPARTMENT: Theatre Technologies

MODULE TITLE: Introduction to AV Technologies

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

Introduction to AV software packages and their use in designing and operating for performance, focusing on projection mapping technologies and programmes such as Isadora and
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VPT 7.
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DEPARTMENT: Theatre Technologies

MODULE TITLE: Stage Management

MODULE CODE: AAP_4_SMN

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 1pm – 4pm

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

DESCRIPTION OF MODULE The Study Abroad Team are awaiting this module guide. For further information on this module please contact your provider, or the study abroad team.

DEPARTMENT: Theatre Technologies

MODULE TITLE: Theatre, Performance, and Technologies: Histories and Practices

MODULE CODE: AAP_5_CRF

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: TBC

DESCRIPTION OF MODULE The Study Abroad Team are awaiting this module guide. For further information on this module please contact your provider, or the study abroad team.
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DEPARTMENT: Drama and Performance

MODULE TITLE: Performance Histories

MODULE CODE: CWP_4_PHS

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Friday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am - 12pm and 1pm - 3pm

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Students attend both sessions.

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical context of contemporary drama and performance. Students will be introduced to a range of historically
important dramatic literature progressing sequentially from the dramatists of Ancient Greeks to the work of the Renaissance playwrights. This will enable students to make
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connections and draw distinctions between different historical periods and cultures. Students will explore concepts relevant to the study of drama such as performance space,
dramatic language and genre, the place of the stage in society and cultural and critical theories of drama.