BA Creative Writing and Fine Art
Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC to include B in Art or related subject, plus satisfactory portfolio IB: 30-28, plus satisfactory portfolio
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing and Fine Art, combining literary study with visual art practice. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. The School of Art holds Accredited Museum Status from Arts Council England, and the programme includes international study visits plus a final-year writing retreat at a country house in mid-Wales.
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Studio Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Art in Wales
- Contemporary Painting
- Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
- Illustration: Foundations to Storytelling
- Life Studies Begins
- Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
- Media Exploration
- Photography: Introduction to Darkroom and Digital Practice
- Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Printmaking: Material Transformations
- Representing the Body
- Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- Digital Skills
- Illustration: Binding Stories (1)
- Illustration: Binding Stories (2)
- Illustration: Worlds and Characters (1)
- Illustration: Worlds and Characters (2)
- Life Studies 1
- Life Studies 2
- Painting: Practice Development (1)
- Painting: Practice Development (2)
- Painting: Studio Practice
- Painting: Studio Practice
- Photography 1
- Photography 2
- Photography: Advanced Darkroom and Digital Practice (1)
- Photography: Advanced Darkroom and Digital Practice (2)
- Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (A)
- Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (B)
- Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (A)
- Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (B)
- Site Specific Exhibition
- Site Specific Practice
- '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
- 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
- Writing Selves
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Exhibition Preparation (1)
- Exhibition: Graduation Show
- 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)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- 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