B.A. Creative and Media Writing
Bachelor's degree
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Bachelor's degree
From old folk tales to new media and from childrens fiction to travel writing, whatever your preferred writing theme or style, you can pick and choose or fuse your favourite topics together. Create your own course and produce original material inspired by what you learn.
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Subjects
- Writing
- Media
- Options
Course programme
Your first year is an introduction to storytelling and the beginning of your training in the skills and techniques youll be using throughout your course.
Core units in this year include:
- True Stories
- Telling Tales
- Tips, Tricks and Techniques
- Professional Writing
- Media Writing: Critical Reviews and Features
- Contemporary Media Events
This year allows you to start to specialise in the areas that interest you most. Choose to focus on specific writing forms such as magazines, scripts or poetry, and also look in depth at certain topics.
Core units in this year include:
- Creative Writing and Critical Thinking
- Print Media
- The Short Story
Options to choose from in this year include:
- Analysing Comic Books
- Approaches to Popular Culture
- Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Media Writing for Public Relations
- Media Writing for the Press
- Media Writing for the Screen and Radio
- Music: Practice, Performance and Research
- Poetry for Page and Stage
- Professional Experience
- Researching Genre
- Sport and the Media
- Student Enterprise
- The Magazine
- The Media and Propaganda
- The Script
The final year offers you a broad range of options to choose from. Depending on your interests, you can choose a dissertation, a writing project or undertake a special exercise that boosts your professional writing skills.
Options to choose from in this year include:
- British TV Drama and Society
- Comedy Culture and Form
- Cultures of Consumption
- Fact and Fiction
- Film Stardom and Celebrity Culture
- Marketing Movies
- Media Fan Cultures
- News, War and Peace
- Representing Science in the Media
- Researching Animation
- The Literary Journalist
- Travel Writing
- TV Talk Shows
B.A. Creative and Media Writing