BA Creative Writing
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC including English Literature, English Language, English Language and Literature, Creative Writing or Drama at grade B or C. IB: 28 points with English Higher at 4.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme offers a work placement module and a creative writing dissertation in the final year. Students may specialise in fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, digital writing, or speculative genres.
Modules
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction to Writing Short Fiction
- Creative Non-Fiction: Starting From The Self
- Writing Back: Poetry, Image Voice
- Literature Now: Reading and Writing Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Make It New: Modernist Experimentation
- Agents of Change: Women’s Writing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- Poetry, Freedom and Tradition: 1300 to the Present
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci Fi and Beyond
- Fiction for Children
- Fiction: Stories in Motion
- Work Placement
- Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries
- Reenchanting ‘the West’: Learning from Myth and Sacred Texts
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Contemporary Short Fiction: Writing the Here and Now
- Digital Writing: Writing for the Community of Strangers
- Dissertation
- Making It Strange: Writing the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Modern Gothic Novel
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Writing the Novel
- Fantasy Writing: Origins and Development
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern