DPT: Creative Writing (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCCRWRI1F)

An alternative 20 credit optional course may be substituted with the permission of the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

Creative Writing Core Course 1

Must be taken during Semester 1

Creative Writing Core Course 2

Must be taken during Semester 2

MSc Creative Writing Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

These are the dedicated poetry elective courses. Preference will be given to students on the MSc in Creative Writing programme. An alternative 20 credit elective course from the following list may be substituted, if places are available.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry

Acts of Story-Telling: Narrator, Text, Audience

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Contemporary American Fiction

Shakespeare's Sister: Archival Research and the Politics of the Canon.

Neo-imperialisms

Modernism and Empire

Queering Fictions in the Twentieth Century

Scottish Women's Fiction (20th Century)

Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version)

Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (PG Version)

AND

These are the dedicated fiction elective courses. Preference will be given to students on the MSc in Creative Writing programme. An alternative 20 credit elective course from the following list may be substituted, if places are available.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Exploring the Novel

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry (Level 11)