BA (Hons) Creative Writing

Entry Requirements

• 240 UCAS points
• CCC at A Level or equivalent
• BTEC Level 3 Qualifications or a combination of A Level and Level 3 BTEC qualifications
• All Level 3 qualifications welcome - including the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of  21 Level 3 credits at Merit
• Plus English and Maths GCSE (C or above), or equiv.
• We welcome qualifications from around the world. English language qualifications for international students: IELTS score of 6.0, Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C.

Curriculum

Year 1

• Creative non-fiction
• Text and context
• Short story and prose
• Writing the short film
• Writing for performance
• Writing poetry

Year 2

• Writing the novel
• Cultural memory
• Radio drama
• Research into writing
• Professional writing practice
• Interactive fiction 
   

Year 3

• Major project 1: begin drafting an individual large scale project. This can be either a series of short stories, a novella, a collection of poems, a stage play, a film/television script, graphic novel/comic script, an interactive fiction/video game script or other as agreed with supervising tutor
• Major project 2: restructuring, redrafting and polishing of creative work begun in major project 1 (double module)
• Adaptation and dramatisation
• Literary magazine
• Media law and ethics