BA Creative Writing and Screenwriting
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC BTEC/Cambridge Technical: DMM IB: 28 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing, combining literary study with creative writing practice. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course offers specialisation in creative writing disciplines such as fiction, screenplays, and creative non-fiction. A Final Major Project in screenwriting allows students to produce a feature film script, TV script, or games pitch package, and a work placement module provides practical experience in an external organisation.
Modules
- Introduction to Writing Poetry
- Introduction to Writing Short Fiction
- From Manga to Witch-Maidens: Storytelling in Visual Culture
- Foundations of Screenwriting
- Writing The Short Film
- Story Structure
- Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Place
- Creative Writing: Poetry, Form and Freedom
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Fiction for Children
- From 'Angry Young Men' to Cool Britannia?: A Historical Analysis of British Cultural Activity After 1945
- Poetry: 1300 to the Present
- Work Placement
- Writing for Games
- Writing for the Screen
- Writing the TV Bible
- Writing the TV Script
- British Culture Wars
- Contemporary Short Fiction: Writing the Here and Now
- Final Major Project: Screenwriting
- The Cultural History of Death
- Writing Flash Fiction
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism