Audit and reflect on your employability skills and career plans.

Reflect on how your academic skills apply to your employability, such as preparation, attention to detail, and clear and precise communication.

You'll do a work placement or Professional Challenge Project at the end of the module.

In the first semester, you'll closely, critically and analytically read short stories from different eras and cultural settings.

In the second semester, you'll focus on poems representing early modern, romantic and modernist forms and periods.

You'll think about how poems are represented online, in education and the media, and work towards discussing and analysing a poem in a podcast or other artefact.

You'll begin by getting to grips with how to express thoughts and opinions in prose writing, before moving onto poetry.

You'll develop into skilled manipulators of style, voice, structure, editing and presentation.

We'll focus on the transferable nature of writing practices between different types of writing.

You'll study political speeches and debates in multimedia format.

The focus will be on the power of words to persuade and influence.

You'll be introduced to rhetoric through classical material and recent theory.

You'll construct and perform speeches in debates on seminal cultural topics.

You'll acquire skills in speaking, articulating arguments, and making a case, and learn the importance of language and style in persuasion.

These skills will help you make a case in your assessed work, improve your public speaking, help you put ideas succinctly and persuasively into words, and give you a heightened awareness of how marketing, politics and PR work.

Develop awareness of genre and analyse contemporary fiction in terms of particular genres and their historical development.

You'll also develop your confidence in reading and engaging with pre-1900 writing.

We'll look at two or more core texts from contemporary and pre-1900 periods in each genre, reading, discussing and comparing them.

For example, we may analyse and compare a 20th-century detective novel to a Victorian detective story, or compare a contemporary vampire novel to Bram Stoker's Dracula.

You'll study literary theories addressing issues of empowerment, such as feminism, masculinities, postcolonialism and intersectionality, and apply these to a range of texts.

You'll apply and develop employability skills through a presentation and career-development portfolio.

You'll also have a series of workshops to prepare for your work placement, which is usually six weeks in total.

You'll explore 'writing the self', producing a portfolio of original autobiographical writing.

You'll then bring your own perspectives to writing about the lives of others, producing a biographical narrative on a subject of your choosing.

The module will reflect the make-up of the class as all students - BAME, international, of different sexualities, with disabilities, from different class backgrounds - will bring their racial, cultural and other life perspectives to the weekly group discussions of autobiography and biography.

You'll study, discuss and respond creatively to a range of poetry and prose dealing with myth, childhood, love and loss.

The myth element will draw on Greek and Roman mythology and that of other cultures.

Childhood, love and loss will draw on contemporary and non-contemporary literature.

You'll do creative exercises based on the texts studied, producing a body of original writing and a reflective commentary.

You'll work with other students and your tutor to produce a writing project, bringing together work from your other modules.

This could be prose fiction, poetry, drama, a short film, an article or a blog post.

You'll do an assessed presentation before working on your project, supported by workshops and one-to-one meetings.

You'll use a notebook to write a formal reflective commentary on the process of formulating, drafting and completing the work.

Combine creative writing, critical reading, and historical and theoretical components to develop your experimental writing.

You'll write using a range of procedures and strategies, looking at innovations in prose and poetry.

You'll explore techniques such as chance and substitution, and fractured narrative and time structures.

We'll also look at historical and theoretical aspects of experimental writing, drawing upon literary texts from diverse writers outside of the cultural mainstream.

Study modernist and postmodernist literature from the early 20th century to the early 21st century.

You'll examine the modernist preoccupation with 'newness' and the development of literary forms that break with earlier artistic conventions.

Then you'll turn to the forms of experimentation and innovation found in postmodern literature from the second half of the 20th century onwards.

You'll examine literary texts in the context of social, political and cultural upheavals.

You'll study themes including war, 'stream-of-consciousness' writing, modernism and race, postmodern indeterminacy, narrative unreliability, the role of the reader, postmodern quest narratives and historiographic metafiction.

Develop your employability skills and experience by undertaking work-based learning in your final year. You'll have the opportunity to spend time working with an employer, focusing on a specific project and reflect on what you have learnt from the experience.