English and drama

Class, Culture and Contemporary Writing

Module code: Q3319
Level 6
30 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Seminar, Workshop
Assessment modes: Coursework

This module explores the lived experience of class in the late 20th and 21st century. 

You'll study:

• different forms of creative and critical writing (novels, poems, memoirs), as well as social and political texts
• visual culture, film, architecture, and music
• class 
• intersections between class
• race
• gender
• sexuality
• writing in Britain.

Module learning outcomes

• Respond in informed fashion to discussions and debates about class in creative and/ or critical writing.
• Analyse to a high level how class is represented in texts/ other media in critical writing, or respond to representations of class in creative writing.
• Show deep understanding in creative and/ or critical writing of the specific challenges of writing about class.
• Show a developed ability to think critically and historically about the course readings.
• Identify a topic for research within the area defined by the module, and undertake advanced research on that topic.