BA Creative Writing
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 104 - 128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: A Levels: English Literature/English Language/English preferred but not required; General Studies and Key Skills not normally accepted. BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM - DDM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM - DDM City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Diploma (1080): considered on a case-by-case basis International Baccalaureate Diploma: including grade H5 in English Literature/Language Access: pass required Welsh Baccalaureate: We will accept this qualification in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications T Levels: T Levels in a relevant subject considered on a case-by-case basis Extended Project Qualification: Points can include a relevant Extended Project (EPQ) but must include a minimum 2 full A-levels, or equivalent.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing, exploring literature and creative practice across genres. Core topics include Research Methods, Design & Creative Practice, Project Management, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. A Community Arts Placement of at least 40 hours is available, and the course concludes with a Creative Writing Dissertation Project in which students produce an extended piece of creative writing with an accompanying commentary.
Modules
- Reading, Thinking, Writing
- Language and Culture: A Toolkit
- Introduction to Prose: Fact and Fiction
- Introduction to Poetry
- Heroes and Villains: Introduction to Medieval Literature
- Comedy
- Gothic
- Children's Fictions
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Scriptwriting for TV
- Poetry and Short Fiction: Image, Voice and Narrative
- Creative Writing: The Novel
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing and Environments
- Stanley Kubrick: Auteur
- Journalism and Risk Society
- Screenwriting for the Industry
- Contemporary Theatre Practice
- Community Arts Placement
- Directing and Dramaturgy
- Directing
- Creative Writing Dissertation Project
- Experimental Writing
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Short Sharp Shocks: Writing the Supernatural and the Strange
- Advanced Film History: America
- Writers' Room (Screenwriting)
- Ystafell Awduron (Sgriptio Teledu)
- Scriptwriting
- Digital Journalism and Society
- Professional Practice
- Theatre and Performance: Self