Through a series of masterclasses this module will focus on genre and style. Taught by author-tutors you will encounter specialisms from across the spectrum of literary genres and forms. You will learn from their very different ways of writing and enhance your handling of these elements in your own work.

This is a long-form piece of independent writing in any genre or form. You will submit an outline of your portfolio mid-way through the programme and then work on it throughout the programme before finally submitting it at the end.

You will be assigned a selected supervisor who will support you through a series of one-to-one tutorials.

In this workshop you will focus on voice and process. You will regularly discuss your work with your tutors and peers and will develop your handling of these aspects of writing in your own writing. You’ll also further your capacity to edit both your own work and that of others.

The workshops will be multi-genre in focus and taught by author-tutors who together can offer specialisms from across the spectrum of literary genres and forms.

In this workshop you will focus on shaping and editing. You will regularly discuss your work with your tutors and peers and develop your handling of these aspects of writing. You’ll also further your capacity to re-draft both your own work and that of others. The workshops will be multi-genre in focus and taught by author-tutors who together can offer specialisms from across the spectrum of literary genres and forms.

Investigate what it means to write, publish and think about books today, exploring literary cultures both within universities and far beyond. In this module you will gain an overview of advanced critical and creative literary studies.

You may explore areas such as:

• Working with archives
• Working with theory
• Being published
• Scholarly conventions and inventions

You will gain insight into how literature flourishes in fields such as publishing, museums, film, journalism, new media, podcasting, fashion and more.

Through a series of masterclasses this module will focus on form and theme. You will take part in regular masterclasses with follow-on discussion threads and writing tasks to be completed in designated online discussion areas.

Taught by author-tutors you will encounter specialisms from across the spectrum of literary genres and forms. You will learn from their very different ways of writing and enhance your handling of these elements in your own work.

On this module you will focus on a number of literary texts, some famous, some not, that question the idea of spirit. You will be taught by several tutors who consider both modern and pre-modern models of spirit as well as neighbouring concepts such as soul or ghost or the divine and you’ll examine how our texts might both reflect and refract those models.

You will explore a host of models, including visions of spirit as, say, sacred, ancestral, communal, global, animal, spatial, national, revolutionary, or indeed as something to live for or even to die for.

You are invited to explore the concept of transnational cinemas and how it helps us understand film in a rapidly changing global landscape. As patterns of production, distribution, and reception shift across borders, transnational cinema offers a critical framework for thinking beyond fixed notions of national or world cinema.

You’ll engage with key debates and theoretical approaches that reflect how contemporary film challenges traditional geographical divisions and gives voice to complex questions of identity, migration, diaspora and belonging.

The module considers the impact of global encounters and border politics, and examines how films negotiate cultural difference, hybridity and power.

Through case studies from a range of regions—including Asian cinemas, the Middle East, Eastern and Central Europe, and South America—you’ll develop a nuanced understanding of the diverse ways cinema operates across and between nations. This module supports your ability to think critically and comparatively about cinema in a global context.

Explore a range of texts that work on and around the concept of the world. You will examine both ancient and modern models of the world and such related concepts as the globe or the cosmos and you’ll discover how the texts we study reflect and/or challenge those models.

You will be taught by several tutors who will present many very different examples, including those that see the world as, say, chaos, organism, chain of being, machine, problem, quantum mystery, or indeed as that which is “too much with us” or even yet “to come.”

We will also explore the world of world literatures, exploring texts from far beyond the British Isles, as well as such pressing features of today’s world as neo-colonialism, migration , and climate change. You will be assessed via a range of critical and critical-creative options.