BA Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: BBC in three A Levels. IB: 554 in three Higher Levels or 29 points.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English with Creative Writing, combining literature study with creative practice. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Design & Creative Practice. The final year includes a Creative Writing Portfolio or an Extended Screenwriting Project. An optional placement year is available with partners such as the National Trust and the V&A Museum.
Modules
- Discoveries: Self and Society in Post-war British Children's Fiction
- Writing Fiction
- Delivery, Performance, and Other Platforms: All the Writing Selves
- Writing Scripts
- Writing Poetry
- History in Media and Film: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture
- Popular Music and Digital Platforms
- Voices and Audiences: Building Your Professional Communication Skills
- Becoming a Cultural Citizen
- Genre, Forms and Modes
- Sources of Writing
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
- Literature and Society
- Screenwriting: Principles and Practices
- Creative Arts and Humanities in Society
- Professional Experience with Creative Writing (Year 2)
- Pathways with Creative Writing: Developing Your Profile
- Local Literature in Action
- Promotional Cultures
- Writingscapes
- Life Writing
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 6)
- Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation
- Creative Magazine Production
- Media and Climate Change
- Creative Writing: Portfolio - ISP
- Professional Experience with Creative Writing (Year 3)
- Extended Screenwriting Project
- Thresholds: Young Adult Fiction
- Employing Creative Writing: Putting Your Subject into Practice
- Working-class Fictions
- Other-than-human worlds: nature writing, environmental writing