Creative Writing with a Foundation Year (Foundation, BA Hons)
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Entry requirements
0-32 UCAS Tariff Points
About this course
Foundation and BA (Hons) in English. Core topics include Communication & Writing and Social & Cultural Analysis. The programme is guided by National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) standards, with modules covering poetry, prose, drama, and screenwriting. A Special Collections Research module draws on the Roderic Bowen Library and Archives.
Modules
- Academic Survival Skills
- Introduction to University Life
- Independent Investigation
- Introduction to the Humanities
- Academic Writing
- Understanding Literature
- Talking to the Dead
- Being Human
- Understanding Democracy
- Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
- Exploring the Humanities
- Historicising Texts
- Introduction to the Craft of Writing
- The Study of Literature: Text and Theory
- Popular Fiction
- Approaches to form
- People’s worlds: Interactions with the Environment
- Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
- Writing for TV, Film and Radio
- Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
- Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
- Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
- Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
- The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
- Writing for Theatre
- International Mobility Opportunity
- A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
- Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
- Off the Page: Performance Poetry
- Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
- Professional Placement
- Novel writing
- Independent Creative Project
- The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career
- African Modernities
- Independent Project
- Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
- Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
- Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
- Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
- The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
- Writing for Theatre
- Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
- Novel writing
- The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career