BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Drama

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Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    3 Years

This degree will enable you to explore the boundaries of your own creativity in both writing and drama. You may be an aspiring author who is keen to develop a new appreciation of literature, learn to read as a writer, and live the writer’s life. You may also be a reflective and articulate drama and theatre maker of the future, seeking to balance practical creativity with technique enhancement and theoretical study. The study of poetry, fiction, writing for stage, screen and radio will be complemented by the development of specialist interests in areas such as acting, directing and applied drama. You will develop your own creative writing skills and philosophy of composition while also enhancing your artistic technique and vision in our professional theatre spaces.

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Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

Typical careers for Creative Writing graduates include working in media, education, advertising, publishing, information technology, radio or television, business, and the theatre. Alternatively, you may wish to progress to further study or research in Creative Writing.

Typical careers for Drama graduates include working in the theatre/performance industry, working with professional companies, media, community or social work, theatre administration, community arts, and business. Alternatively, you may wish to progress to further study or research in Drama.

120 UCAS Tariff points on the new UCAS Tariff, preferably to include Performing Arts, Drama, Dance or a related subject and A Level English or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Theatre
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Creative Writing
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • Creativity Writing
  • Scriptwriting
  • Theatre Practitioners
  • Writing Short
  • Event Planning
  • Arts
  • Enterprise
  • Practitioners

Course programme

Year 1

DRA1103 Introducing the Art of the Actor: Text, Voice, Chorus (20 credits)

DRA1104 Staging the Play: Text into Action (20 credits)

WRI1018 Introduction to Poetry (20 credits)

WRI1019 Introduction to Fiction (20 credits)

WRI1020 Introduction to Scriptwriting (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

DRA1101 Drama, Theatre and the Idea of the Play: Concepts, Cultures, Contexts (20 credits)

DRA1106 Drama Technique Workshops 1: Basic Practical Skills Development (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of either WRI1020 Introduction to Scriptwriting or one of the optional Drama modules above.

Year 2

DRA2102 Modern Theatre Practitioners: Principles, Practices, Purposes (20 credits)

DRA2104 The Making of Modern Theatre: Staging Classic Modern Plays (20 credits)

WRI2023 The Art of Poetry (20 credits)

WRI2024 Writing Short Stories (20 credits)

WRI2025 The Art of Scriptwriting (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

DRA2101 The Modern Age of Drama: Forms, Movements, Modernity (20 credits)

DRA2105 Imagining Better Worlds: Theatre, Learning and Development (20 credits)

DRA2106 Drama Technique Workshops 2: Advanced Practical Skills Development (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of either WRI2025 The Art of Scriptwriting or one of the optional Drama modules above.

Year 3

DRA3102 The Contemporary Ensemble: Theatre Manifestos (20 credits)

PAR3104 Dissertation (20 credits)

WRI3021 Poetry and Innovative Form (20 credits)

WRI3022 Advanced Fiction (20 credits)

WRI3023 The Art of Screenwriting (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

DRA3101 Researching Contemporary Drama: Theatre and Postmodernity (20 credits)

DRA3107 On the Road: Enabling Better Worlds (20 credits)

DRA3108 Event Planning and Management (20 credits)

PAR3106 Arts and Enterprise (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of either WRI3023 The Art of Screenwriting or one of the optional Drama modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.

Additional information

International students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18 are £11,575 per annum.

How will I be assessed? Creative Writing modules are assessed by coursework, which includes creative practice, critical practice, essays and reflection on the whole process. Assessment for Performing Arts modules is through a mixture of practical and written work including essays, portfolios, seminar presentations, workshop performances, full-scale productions and vivas. You will be required to reflect on your learning in each assessment and summarise your development regularly. Who will be teaching me? Creative Writing modules will be taught by an enthusiastic team of professional writers whose work has been widely published, broadcast and staged. The programme team publish and/or edit a variety of academic and literary journals, including the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice and 21: Journal of Contemporary and Innovative Fiction. The Performing Arts team work closely together in an acknowledgement of the collaborative nature of performance. The team of academics, professional practitioners and technical staff, together with a range of part-time industry professionals and academic specialists, offer a wide range of learning experiences.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Drama

£ 9,250 + VAT