BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing and Media with Foundation Year
Bachelor's degree
In Wolverhampton
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
Creative and Professional Writing with Media seeks to provide an active, supported and stimulating environment in which students can confidently experiment with and develop different forms and styles of writing. The programme offers a disciplined engagement with both creative and professional writing, teaching the art of writing within a range of media from radio, TV and newspapers to multimedia platforms and mobile phones. The study of Creative and Professional Writing with Media will help you develop the ability to communicate more effectively in writing; you will learn about the ways in which media shape both our understanding of the world, and our perceptions of our place in that world.
The Foundation year prepares students for university level study. Successful completion of our Foundation course permits access to any of our Humanities or Media BA (Hons) degree courses, which include English, English Language, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Media, Philosophy and Religious Studies — many of which can be taken singly as specialist degrees or together as ‘joint’ degree routes. The Foundation year begins with modules aimed at providing transferable study skills and then, in the second semester, gives students the opportunity to study more specialist modules, with a focus on various aspects of Humanities and Media.
The course also seeks to enable independent critical thinking and judgement, and to hone students' powers of imagination and invention in the creation of literary and non-literary texts. Students will develop a range of subject specific and transferable skills, including higher order communication skills, IT awareness and digital literacy, of immense value in graduate employment.
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Your writing modules will fall broadly into three categories: Craft of Writing modules, Reading as a Writer modules, and Working as a Writer modules. Craft modules focus on you as a writer and are designed to help you explore your creative imagination whilst developing the skills required to express it. Reading as a Writer modules are designed teach you how to read with an eye for technique: the emphasis here will be on what you can learn from other writers across a spectrum of syles and genres. Working as a Writer modules have a vocational dimension and offer the opportunity to develop skills that will enhance your employablity as a writer.
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- Professional Writing
- Media
- Writing
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Course programme
Module: 3GK012
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.
Module: 3GK013
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.
Module: 3HU006
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to the twin notions of Utopias and Dystopias and uses a range of extracted primary texts (provided in class and on the VLE) to explore how writers, film makers, and others utilise the imagined space of a utopia or dystopia to make comment upon our world.
Module: 3GK014
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.
Module: 4CW003
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module aims to: acquaint students to a wide range of ideas about language and writing; develop a foundational understanding of language, text and the craft of writing for future creative and professional writing experiences; enable students to make informed judgments about the nature and function of language and writing; and apply their understanding by writing original texts.
Module: 4MZ009
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the major concepts in the study of media, communication and culture. The module explores how concepts can be applied to enable and enhance understanding of media, communications and culture in a global, digital age.
Module: 4MZ001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the ways in which media, culture and society interact. The module will investigate the context of media production and consumption, as well as identifying the ways in which media texts construct meaning.
Module: 4MZ010
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module examines the role of the mass media in contemporary British politics.
Module: 4CW001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module will teach students how to read with an eye for technique. It will focus on how writing is structured and the various ways in which authors create compelling narratives. It will address a variety of modes of writing and genres including novels, short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and tap into reading and critical theories. Students will be given the opportunity to experiment creatively within those modes, and reflect on what can be learned from the study of other people's work.
Module: 4MZ018
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module examines visual aspects of the media and popular culture. It introduces theoretical arguments for the analysis of visual culture and explores the historical sources of images used by contemporary media.
Module: 5MZ014
Credits: 20
Period: 3
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to enable students to understand and to apply a variety of analytical methodologies in a theoretically and empirically informed manner.
Module: 5CW003
Credits: 20
Period: 3
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module studies life-writing across a range of cultures and periods, examining its diversity, its formal properties and its social and personal value as witness to oppression, a form of consciousness- raising, personal testimony and literature.
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BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing and Media with Foundation Year