BA English and Creative Writing with Foundation Year
Entry requirements
72 UCAS points required from level 3 qualifications. These can include: A-Levels at grades B and C (if you have two A-Levels) or grades D, D and D (if you have three), or above BTEC Extended Diploma with Merit, Merit, Pass Access to HE Diploma T-Levels You also need GCSE English and Maths (grade 9-4 / A*-C) or Level 2 equivalents.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and English Literature and Creative Writing. Core topics include research methods, communication and writing, and critical and analytical thinking. This four-year programme includes a foundation year followed by three years of degree study. The course also features an industry experience module and a foundation major project.
Modules
- Personalised Learning
- Academic performance
- Creative Research in Media and Design
- Contextual Studies in Media and Design
- Creative Sectors
- Foundation Major Project
- Study Skills for Success
- Creative Sectors in Media and Design
- Major Project (Foundation Year)
- English Literature I: History, Form and Genre
- English Literature II: Critical Approaches (double credit module)
- Foundations of Creative Writing
- Foundations of Creative Writing II
- Media and Communications: Theories and Debates
- Video Production
- Podcasting
- Thinking Through Film: Genre
- Literature and Modernity: 1900-1960
- The Canon Reloaded
- Screenwriting
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Worldbuilding
- Critical Approaches to New and Social Media
- Industry Experience
- Visual Media Cultures
- Visual Media Cultures (B)
- Industry Experience (B)
- Contemporary Writers and the City
- British and Irish Drama since 1945
- Writing for Performance
- Creative Writing: The Short Story
- Dissertation OR Project
- British and Irish Drama since 1945 (A)
- Crime and Fiction (B)
- Shakespeare on the Screen (B)
- Dissertation or Project (C)