Creative Writing BA(Hons)
Facts about Creative Writing
| Year of entry | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Qualification | BA(Hons) (joint honours only) |
| Application route | 3 years full-time: apply through UCAS 6 years part-time: apply direct to the University View course combinations page for joint honours UCAS codes |
| Modules | Module Listing |
About this course
Why choose this course?
This course enables you to explore a wide variety of different kinds of writing – from the classic to the contemporary – while discovering and developing the writer within you. You will gain a thorough insight into the process of writing from our teaching team, which includes award-winning published authors.
See the course combinations section for more information about the different joint honours options.
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What will you study?
You will study the work and commentary of other writers, practise writing in a variety of literary forms, and develop skills in writing, review, criticism and co-operative discussion. You will develop skills in prose, poetry and scriptwriting, and have the opportunity to produce a major piece of writing for publication.
Module listing
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.
Year 1
Year 2
- Independent Creative Writing
- Poetry Now: Reading and Writing Contemporary Poetry
- The Editor's Craft
- Heard not Seen: Writing for Radio
- Narrative, Character and Voice in Prose Writing
- Screenwriting
Year 3
- Writing for a Living
- Big Ideas for the Small Screen
- Making it New: Techniques in Twentieth Century Poetry
- Scribbling and Script: Writing for the Stage
- Smells like Teen Spirit: Writing Popular Music Lyrics
- Special Study: Get a Life: Forms of (Auto)biography
- Special Study: Narrative Techniques in Popular Fiction
- Special Study: Poetry: Experiments and Innovations
- Writing for Children
- Children's Literature
- Contemporary British Fiction
- Cult Films, Trash Aesthetics and Exploitation
- De-colonising Drama
- From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: Beckett and Pinter
- Gothic Literature
- Language and Gender
- New Wave Cinema
- Shakespeare
- Stylistics
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