WHAT S YOUR STORY?

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LITERATURE, DRAMA

AND CREATIVE WRITING

UNDERGRADUATE

COURSES 2016

WHAT’S

YOUR

STORY?

LITERATURE, DRAMA

AND CREATIVE WRITING

UNDERGRADUATE

COURSES 2016

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STUDY ENGLISH IN ENGLAND’S ONLY UNESCO CITY OF

LITERATURE: THE PERFECT VENUE FOR YOUR DEGREE.

FAMED FOR THEIR FLEXIBILITY, OUR DEGREE COURSES

OFFER YOU GUIDED CHOICES AT EVERY STAGE. PICK FROM

A WEALTH OF OPTIONS.

HONE YOUR SKILLS WITH US NOW, AND GO ON TO JOIN OUR

EVER-GROWING LIST OF AWARD-WINNING WRITERS AND

ACTORS, SUCCESSFUL PUBLISHERS AND JOURNALISTS, AND

INNOVATIVE CREATIVE INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS.

WHAT KIND OF A LITERATURE STUDENT WILL YOU BE?

WELCOME

10

in the UK for Research

2014 Research

Excellence Framework

TH

82

of research rated

world-leading

2014 Research

Excellence Framework

%

95

satisfaction with teaching

Guardian University

Guide 2016

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LITERATURE, DRAMA AND CREATIVE WRITING

DEGREE MODULES

This internationally-known degree offers a wide range of writing topics from the medieval period to the present day – from the Arthurian tradition to Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, the Brontës, from Joyce, to novelists who are writing today.

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Literature in History • Reading Texts

Optional Module Examples:

Writing Texts • Analysing Film • Analysing Television • Introduction to Cultural Studies • Introduction to Modern History • Media, Society and Power • Social and Political Theory • Imagining America

Year 2

Women Writers • Shakespeare • Modernism • Medieval Literature • Romantic Literature • Journalism • Contemporary Fiction • Victorian Writing • European Literature • Writing the Wild • Creative Writing Introduction • Critical Theory and Practice

Year 3

Optional Module Examples:

Nervous Narratives • Women’s Writing in the Regency • Chaucer • Trauma and Modern Literature • Revenge Tragedy • James Joyce’s Ulysses • Science Fiction • Queer Literature • The Gothic • Literature and Human Rights • Nonsense Literature • Medieval Monstrosities • Feminist Writing • Biography • Latin American Narratives • Lyric

Develop your creative writing skills whilst studying English literature. Complement the critical study of literature as you develop your own writing practice – you will learn to read as a writer and write as a reader.

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Creative Writing • Literature in History I and II • Reading Texts II

Year 2

Optional Module Examples:

Contemporary Fiction • Victorian Writing • European Literature • Publishing • The Writing of Journalism • Audio Drama: The Theatre of the Mind • Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose Fiction or Scriptwriting • American Music • Animation

Year 3

Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose, or Scriptwriting

Charles Dickens: Beyond Reality • Latin American Narratives • Literature and Opera • Nervous Narratives • New Worlds: Science Fiction and Beyond • Poetry in Dark Times • Ulysses • Virgil’s Classic Epic

Become an expert in technical theatre skills, basic acting, group work and weekly voice/singing classes. You will explore the theory, history and social significance of drama, and of dramatic literature and aspects of visual and technical design.

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Applied Drama and Technical Skills • Post-War British Drama • Theatre: Theory and Performance • Introduction to World Dramatic Literatures

Literature in History • Analysing Film • Introduction to Cultural Studies • Writing Texts

Year 2

The Actor and the Text • Comedy and the Absurd in Drama • Devised Performance • Shakespeare • Contemporary American Fiction • 18th Century Writing • Political Theatre • Creative Writing • World Performance

Year 3

Compulsory Module Examples:

Drama Production • Drama Projects

Dissertation • Contemporary Drama and Film • Drama and Literature: The Question of Genre • Literature and Opera • Shakespeare: Shadow and Substance

BA English Literature with

Creative Writing

– Q3W8

BA Drama

– W400

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FIND OUR FULL MODULE LISTING AT

www.uea.ac.uk/ldc/courses

On this course you will explore the continuities, such as language and cultural references, and the distinctions (ie tone of voice and values) between English literature and American literature.

We also offer a three-year BA American and English Literature programme (UCAS code TQ73) which includes a year in the US. See our American studies brochure, or for more information about this particular programme visit:

www.uea.ac.uk/ams/courses

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Imagining America • Literature in History

Reading Cultures I: American Icons • Reading Cultures II: Ideas and Ideologies • Writing Texts

Year 2

20th Century American Poetry • American Romanticism • Southern Literature • The Beats and the Limits of Writing • The Holocaust in American Literature • Modernism • Shakespeare • Victorian Writing • Contemporary Fiction • Austen and the Brontës

Year 3

Optional Module Examples:

Tales of the Jazz Age • Literature and Human Rights • Native American Writing and Film • The Literary 1960s • American Violence • Feminist Writing • Satire • T S Eliot and 20th Century Writing

BA English and American

Literature

– QT37

This programme provides a great opportunity to study cultures and societies through both literary and historical materials and approaches.

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Introduction to Cultural Studies • Literature in History II • Reading Texts II

History, Controversy and Debate • Introduction to Early Modern Studies • Introduction to Medieval History • Introduction to Modern History • Analysing Film • Classic Readings in Philosophy

Year 2

Cultural Theory and Practice • 18th Century Writing • Contemporary Fiction • Shakespeare • Medieval Writing • Romanticism, 1780-1840 • European Literature • History of Modern Italy • Propaganda

Year 3

Optional Module Examples:

Feminist Writing • Literature and Human Rights • Medieval Monstrosities • Chaucer • Latin American Narratives • Satire • The Art of Murder • The English in America, 1607-1692

This courses allows you to explore the relationships between the practices of writing in all major genres – prose, poetry and drama – and the practices of dramatic production and acting.

Year 1

Applied Drama and Technical Skills • Reading Texts • Post War British Drama

Optional Module Examples:

Introduction to World Dramatic Literatures • Literature in History • Theatre: Theory and Performance

Year 2

Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose Fiction or Scriptwriting • Austen and the Brontës: Reading the Romance • Publishing • World Performance • The Short Story • Modernism • Drama Outreach Project

Year 3

Compulsory Module Example:

Drama and Literature: The Question of Genre

Charles Dickens: Beyond Reality • Feminist Writing • Literature and Opera • Drama or Literature Dissertation • Satire • Shakespeare: Shadow and Substance

BA Literature and

History

–QV31

BA English Literature and

Drama

–WQ43

“ THE COURSE, THE STAFF AND MY PEERS HELPED MY

CONFIDENCE BLOOM DURING MY TIME AT UNIVERSITY.

I LEARNT NEW WAYS TO ANALYSE TEXT IN DEPTH AND THE

AMOUNT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO PERFORM DURING THE

COURSE ENABLED ME TO PRACTISE AND EXPERIMENT”

MATT MILNE,

BA DRAMA GRADUATE

MATT HAS WORKED AS A PROFESSIONAL ACTOR SINCE GRADUATING FROM UEA, WITH ROLES

IN WAR HORSE, DOWNTON ABBEY AND WRATH OF THE TITANS

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“ I REALLY

DISCOVERED

WHAT I ENJOYED

MOST ABOUT

LITERATURE”

HANNAH LIVINGSTONE,

BA ENGLISH LITERATURE

FULFILLING

YOUR

POTENTIAL

Analyse the specific formats, conventions and techniques of scriptwriting for different forms. You will develop key writing skills for different contexts including acting, rehearsal and production methods.

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Scriptwriting and Performance • Analysing Film and Television • Post-War British Drama • Applied Drama and Technical Skills • Introduction to World Dramatic Literatures 1 • Theatre: Theory and Performance

Year 2

Compulsory Module Example:

Creative Writing: Scriptwriting

Adaption and Transmedia Storytelling • Adaptation: Shakespeare on Stage and Screen • Animation • Contemporary Fiction • Film Theory • Gender and the Media • Medieval Writing

Year 3

Compulsory Module Example:

Creative Writing Dissertation

Contemporary Drama and Film • Feminist Writing • Literature and Deconstruction • Charles Dickens: Beyond Reality • Revenge Tragedy: Ancient and Modern • The Art of Murder • Romantic Orientalism, 1780-1830

Gain the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to progress to the degree programme. The foundation year is an intensive course offering guided learning and support to study the BA English Literature.

Year 1

Compulsory Module Examples:

Humanities: Techniques and Methods • Humanities: The Key Concepts

Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, British Sign Language or Spanish • Creative Industries • Media Technologies • History and Society • Introduction to Visual Cultures • Literature and the Humanities • What is Politics?

Year 2

Compulsory Module Examples:

Literature in History • Reading Texts • Writing Texts

Reading Translations • Analysing Television • Analysing Film • Introduction to Cultural Studies • Introduction to Modern History • Media, Society and Power • Social and Political Theory • Imagining America

Year 3

Women Writers • Shakespeare • Modernism • Medieval Literature • Romantic Literature • Journalism • Modernism • Victorian Writing • European Literature • Writing the Wild • Creative Writing Introduction • Romanticism, 1780-1840

Year 4

Optional Module Examples:

Nervous Narratives • Women’s Writing in the Regency • Chaucer • Trauma and Modern Literature • Revenge Tragedy • James Joyce’s Ulysses • Science Fiction • Queer Literature • The Gothic • Literature and Human Rights • Nonsense Literature • Medieval Monstrosities • Biography • The Gothic • Latin American Narratives

BA Scriptwriting and

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YOUR

STUDIES

Your Literature, Drama and Creative

Writing programme will challenge

you to explore your love of writing,

reading and performance through the

study of a wealth of literature, from

the very ancient to the

hot-off-the-press modern.

FIND OUT MORE AT

www.uea.ac.uk/ldc/courses

“ IT’S KNOWN FOR BEING THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN THE

COUNTRY FOR CREATIVE WRITING, WITH A HIGHLY

ESTEEMED LIST OF ALUMNI, AND I WAS VERY EXCITED

TO BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO STUDY AT A PLACE WITH

SUCH A GREAT REPUTATION”

MAURA FLATLEY,

ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH CREATIVE WRITING STUDENT

UEA is the place where literary critics

rub shoulders – and swap ideas – with

creative writers, actors and theatre

directors. You will experiment with

multiple inventive ways to read, write

about, create and enact literature.

Our innovative courses offer rich

mixtures of theory and practice.

On all our degree programmes we

foster creative ways of writing about

literature. You’ll be encouraged to be

creative-critical and develop your own

critical voice.

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You will receive expert coaching in

networking and creative job hunting,

and be encouraged to be proactive

from the outset in terms of gaining

experience and developing the best

possible edge in the labour market.

Throughout your degree you’ll meet invited

speakers, including alumni working in

publishing, at the BBC and The Guardian,

and gain insights into their day-to-day work.

You’ll be able to benefit from our strong

links with the literary world and will have

the chance to apply for several literary

agency work placements during the year.

And you can take advantage of *cast, a

professional consultancy created by the drama

team. *cast offers students and graduates

drama-based skills training and paid work,

helping you build your CV and improve your

professional opportunities.

CAREER SUPPORT

We work closely with the UEA Careers Service

to offer a comprehensive programme, covering

career management, employer and industry

focused events, one-to-one guidance and careers

fairs. Find out more at

www.uea.ac.uk/careers

YOUR

CAREER

“ BY STUDYING ANY OF

THE DRAMA COURSES

AT UEA, YOU LEAVE

UNIVERSITY AS A MUCH

MORE VERSATILE

INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS

AN UNDERSTANDING

OF ACTING, DIRECTING,

WRITING, SOUND,

LIGHTING, SET DESIGN,

PRODUCING AND STAGE

MANAGEMENT. THIS

MAKES YOU MUCH MORE

PREPARED FOR SUCH A

COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY,

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,

MORE EMPLOYABLE”

MARK DOMINY,

BA SCRIPTWRITING AND

PERFORMANCE GRADUATE

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