Modules
This final-year module integrates English language, literature, and creative writing to prepare you for life beyond university, blending academic study with practical skill development and career-focused applications. You will refine your expertise in linguistic analysis, critical interpretation, and creative expression, while exploring how these core skills translate into diverse professional environments.
Through engaging with a wide range of texts—from classic literature to contemporary media—you will deepen your understanding of storytelling, language use, and audience engagement. Creative writing workshops will encourage the development of original, polished works, while employability-focused sessions will highlight transferable skills such as communication, research, editing, and project management.
The module includes practical tasks like producing professional portfolios, writing for public audiences, and exploring roles in industries such as publishing, education, media, and heritage. Insight from industry professionals will provide information about career opportunities, and you will be encouraged to reflect on your academic experiences to articulate your strengths in professional contexts. Knowledge from Level 5 core and specialist modules will be consolidated, extended and contextualised in terms of the relationship between your academic studies and the developments of transferable skills valued in a range of modern workplaces.
By combining advanced study with hands-on practice, this module equips you with the tools and confidence to excel in the workplace, demonstrating the value and versatility of an English degree.
This module is designed to give you a detailed understanding of the process of planning, writing and editing a novel. You will consider issues such as character, setting, story, plot and genre. In seminars, you will present your own writing for workshopping with a view to producing the opening chapter(s) of your novel. You will also learn about approaching literary agents and publishers.
This module is designed to give you a detailed understanding of the process of planning, writing, editing and submitting a script. You will explore a range of scripts and books on script writing to gain an understanding of developing character through action and conflict, and you will learn how to write convincing dialogue. In seminars, you will present scenes for reading through, to receive feedback that you can use to improve your script. You will also learn about the correct formatting for stage and screenplays, with a view to submitting your script to a producer.
This self-directed module allows students to initiate and develop their own major project ideas appropriate to their discipline of study. Students at this point in their studies are often very focussed on their ultimate work aspirations, and this module helps them to gain 'graduate trajectory' to enable them to better move into their chosen profession as seamlessly as possible when they have finished their studies.