2022/23 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Creative Writing and Critical Life (No longer recruiting from 2023/24)
Programme code: | MA-ENG/CWCL | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Jay Prosser | Contact address: | J.D.Prosser@leeds.ac.uk |
This programme is available to UK and EU applicants for part time study (over 2 academic years). Please contact pgtenglish@leeds.ac.uk for further information.
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Good honours degree (First or 2:i or its equivalent) in English Literature, or a degree scheme including English Literature, or in a related subject. Appropriate IELTS where applicable.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of English
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of English
Programme specification:
The programme will develop students’ skills in both creative writing and critical thinking. The programme is distinctive in that it explores the history, generic conventions and experimental possibilities of both creative literary forms and schools of critical thought. The programme’s distinction also inheres in the fact that it considers the intersection between critical and creative writing. Questioning the boundaries between the ‘scholarly’ and the ‘creative’, this programme attends to and enables the emergence of new forms of writing. It does this in a way that enables students to examine. both established and emergent literary forms.
Through readings of genres and texts that are both ‘canonical’ and emergent, this programme also addresses the concept of ‘critical life’. In dialogue with fields such as gender studies and queer theory, postcolonialism and race theory, psychoanalysis and poststructuralist theory, the programme encourages critical reflection on ‘life’ as a concept and category. It does this with an emphasis on moments and contexts where life is in a critical condition, under various forms of threat. A major focus of the programme is on how such conditions and the questions they provoke lead to both creative and critical acts.
Course content covers a range of genres, including creative nonfiction, prose fiction, and poetry. Pedagogical and writing approaches also allow for creative practice as research.
Students write a critical/creative research project / dissertation on a subject of their choice with the assistance of specialist supervision. All students can have at their disposal the research resources of the University's Brotherton Library. This distinctive programme allows students to explore further areas which may not have figured significantly in their undergraduate programme. It affords an excellent platform for work at doctoral level, including creative practice as doctoral research.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates willl be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL5842M | Research Project | 60 credits | 1 Sep to 30 Sept (13mth) | |
ENGL5845M | Writing Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 90 credits from the following optional modules:
A minimum of two modules (60 credits) should be taken from the following list of programme-specific option modules.
ENGL5100M | The Long Poem: Self, Land, Witness | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5831M | Feeling Time | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5833M | The Magic of Mimesis | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5847M | War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note that this is an indicative module list. A different selection of modules is offered each year.
A maximum of one module (30 credits) may be taken from the list of all other English MA modules. Some modules are subject to availability - see individual descriptions.
ENGL5105M | Caribbean and Black British Writing | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5117M | Romantic Identities: Literary Constructions of the Self, 1789-1821 | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5343M | Africas of the Mind | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5345M | Reading (with) Psychoanalysis | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5700M | Writing, Archives, Race | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5737M | Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5752M | The Brontes | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5756M | Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL5817M | Shakespeare's Tyrants | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5828M | Global Indigeneity | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5834M | Romantic Ecologies | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5837M | Victorian New Media | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5850M | Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1968 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL5860M | Turks, Moors, and Jews: Race and Identity in English Renaissance Drama | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note that this is an indicative module list. A different selection of modules is offered each year.
Elective modules:
Candidates may take up to 30 credits in approved modules outside the School of English.
Subject to approval from the Programme Leader, if a module from the section immediately above is NOT taken, a maximum of 30 credits may be taken from approved modules outside of the school such as those listed below
PECI5406M | Narrative Perspectives in Practice | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PECI5407M | Digital and Intermedial Storytelling | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note that this is an indicative module list.
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