Course Modules

The module will train your observation skills. You will learn to apply the world around you to inform your creative processes. You will also learn the value of the ‘concrete’ as opposed to the ‘abstract’ and discover how the ordinary […]

This module introduces you to the fundamental skills of creative writing through engagement with the writer’s notebook and a variety of sources, from both personal experience and in the locality. The module will focus on the training of the eye

This module explores the challenges made by women’s writing, both critical and creative, to established authority over the past two centuries.

This module introduces you to the versatile genre of creative non-fiction, in which writers employ skills transported from fiction to lend dramatic complexity to factual narratives. Using autobiographical material as a base, you will generate dramatic scenes on a variety

You will examine and experiment as writers in three genres: travel writing ‘the new nature writing’ psychogeography. Assessment Over the course of the module, you will undertake three assignments, one in each genre. In so doing, you will develop a

This module will enable you to develop a variety of sophisticated traditional poetic forms and to develop experimental free verse poems within a reflective contemporary poetic practice.

This module explores the study of development and maturation in cognitive, personality and social processes, as well as introduces you to basic theory, research findings and methods of investigation in childhood, adolescence and lifespan development. You will consider the ways

In this module, you will be introduced to how individual differences have been studied in the past, for example through psychometrics and case study methodologies. You will investigate areas of personality, intelligence, cognitive style, motivation, gender and ethnicity, in terms

This module aims to enable students to understand some of the major theories of developmental psychology. The module will familiarise students with the diversity of lifespan development models and enable students to recognise critical and transitional points in human development

This module will develop your understanding of experimental designs and associated methods of analysis, and introduce you to research ethics.