BA Media and Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: BBB-CCC IB: 30-26
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing and Film Studies, combining literary study, creative practice, and film. Core topics include Research Methods. The course is taught jointly by two departments: English and Creative Writing, and Theatre, Film and Television Studies. A television studio is available on campus, and BBC Wales houses a regional office within the department.
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Studying Communication
- Studying Media
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Making Short Films 1
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Studying Television
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Adventures with Poetry
- Digital Culture
- Media, Politics and Power
- Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- The Story of Television
- Writing Selves
- Youth Cultures
- Art Cinema
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Creative Documentary
- Creative Television Studio
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Film Stardom and Celebrity
- LGBT Film & Television
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Work in the Film & Television Industries
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Gender and the Media
- Independent Research Project
- Media Law and Regulation
- Media and Society in Wales
- Videogame Theories
- Crisis Writing
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- Independent Research Project
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Poetry for today
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- Writing Crime Fiction
- Writing Horror
- Writing and Place
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Contemporary TV
- Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
- Documentary Production
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Experimental Cinema
- Experimental Media Production
- Haunting Texts
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English