BA Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing, combining literary study with creative practice. Core topics include Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Design & Creative Practice. Students can undertake a placement year in the creative industries and complete a Special Project in their final year. Each year, students curate and edit an anthology of creative work and engage with guest authors and industry speakers.
Modules
- The Writer's Toolkit
- The Reader’s Toolkit
- Fiction 1
- Poetry 1
- Your Degree, Your Future
- World Literature
- Literary London
- Creative Journaling
- Representation and Identity
- Ways of Hearing 1
- Professional Life
- Placements in the Creative Industries
- Genre Fiction
- Fiction II
- Writing Genre
- Life Writing I
- Literatures of Inequality: Global Fictions
- The Novel: The Nineteenth Century
- Literary Movements: Modernism
- Literature and Revolution: Romanticism
- Texts and Afterlives: Shakespeare
- Contemporary Fiction: Britain and Ireland
- Postcolonial Writing
- Screenwriting I
- Poetry II
- Creative Writing Special Project
- Creative Careers
- Fiction III
- Poetry III
- Screenwriting II
- Life Writing II: Journeying the Self through Psychology and Expressive Arts
- Literature, Culture, Society: The Victorians
- Post-War and Late Twentieth-Century Literature 1945 - 2001
- Special Topic: Violence
- Author Study: Jane Austen
- Literature and Identity