BA (Hons) Creative Writing

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Bachelor's degree

In Ormskirk

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    3 Years

As a Creative Writing student at Edge Hill University you will work with, and we hope become part of, a world class community of writers who will help you develop your skills in areas such as fiction, script, poetry, writing for games and non-fiction. We are celebrating almost three decades of helping students find their creative voices and our aim is to enable you to evolve as an innovative and exciting writer and become the best writer you can be. We have pioneered the use of reflective work to enhance the development of our students and we are recognised as a centre of excellence and innovation. You will also have the opportunity to take part in readings and events and meet a range of writers, editors, dramaturges, producers and directors as visiting lecturers.

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Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

All of the skills you learn on the course are transferable to a wide variety of careers. These include working in media, education, community arts, advertising, business, information technology, the publishing industry, radio, television, and the theatre. Your personal tutor will help you explore your future plans.

120 UCAS Tariff points on the new UCAS Tariff. No specific subjects are required but a qualification in English Literature, English Language, Drama or Media would be preferred.

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Creative Writing
  • Scriptwriting
  • Narrative Games
  • Writing Short Stories
  • Renaissance Drama
  • Romanticism
  • Film Adaptation
  • Graphic Novel
  • Screenwriting
  • Sexuality

Course programme

Year 1

WRI1014 Building the World (20 credits)

WRI1018 Introduction to Poetry (20 credits)

WRI1019 Introduction to Fiction (20 credits)

WRI1020 Introduction to Scriptwriting (20 credits)

WRI1021 Reading the World and the Business of Writing (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

WRI1017 Introduction to Writing for Narrative Games (20 credits)

WRI1022 Introduction to Non-Fiction (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 WRI1020 Introduction to Scriptwriting.

Year 2

WRI2018 The Writer's Life (20 credits)

WRI2020 Inside the Publishing Industry (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:

LIT2020 Renaissance Drama (20 credits)

LIT2021 Renaissance Prose and Poetry (20 credits)

LIT2022 Literature 1660-1760 (20 credits)

LIT2023 Romanticism (20 credits)

LIT2025 Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century (20 credits)

LIT2027 Texts in Motion: Film Adaptation (20 credits)

LIT2028 Writing The Female Body (20 credits)

LIT2033 First World War Poetry (20 credits)

LIT2034 Rogues' Gallery: Crime and Criminality in the Long Nineteenth Century (20 credits)

LIT2042 Literature and Globalisation (20 credits)

LIT2043 Literatures of Conflict (20 credits)

LIT2044 About Love (20 credits)

LIT2045 Modern American Literature: 1865 to the Present Day (20 credits)

LIT2046 Pilgrims Progress: British Children's Literature from the 18th Century to the Present Day (20 credits)

LIT2047 Producing a Literary Publication (20 credits)

LIT2051 Special Author 1 (20 credits)

LIT2052 Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century (20 credits)

LIT2053 Writing the Female Body (20 credits)

LIT2054 Writing the Supernatural (20 credits)

LIT2055 Rogues' Gallery: Crime and Criminality in the Long 19th Century (20 credits)

LIT2056 Vampire Fictions (20 credits)

WRI2019 The Graphic Novel (20 credits)

WRI2021 Genre and Popular Fiction (20 credits)

WRI2022 Poetry, Film and the Deep Image (20 credits)

WRI2026 Writing for Roleplaying Games (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 WRI2025 The Art of Scriptwriting.

Year 3

WRI3021 Poetry and Innovative Form (20 credits)

WRI3022 Advanced Fiction (20 credits)

WRI3023 The Art of Screenwriting (20 credits)

WRI3025 The Writer's Workshop (40 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

LIT3021 The Victorian Novel (20 credits)

LIT3022 Victorian Poetry (20 credits)

LIT3023 Modernism (20 credits)

LIT3024 The Sense of an Ending: Late Twentieth Century Literature (20 credits)

LIT3030 Sexuality and Subversion (20 credits)

LIT3032 The Shakespeare Problem (20 credits)

LIT3033 Late Victorian Gothic: Deviance, Decadence, Degeneration (20 credits)

LIT3034 Gothic Romanticism (20 credits)

LIT3036 Imperialism and Textuality (20 credits)

LIT3042 Modernisms (20 credits)

LIT3043 Contemporary Literature in English (20 credits)

LIT3045 Hosting a Literary Festival (20 credits)

LIT3046 Narratives of Nation and Empire (20 credits)

LIT3047 Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture (20 credits)

LIT3048 Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: Young Adult Fiction (20 credits)

LIT3049 Special Author 2 (20 credits)

LIT3050 Sexuality and Subversion (20 credits)

LIT3051 The Shakespeare Problem (20 credits)

LIT3052 Late-Victorian Gothic (20 credits)

LIT3124 Dickens and Popular Culture (20 credits)

LIT3125 Speculative Fiction (20 credits)

WRI3017 Advanced Theatre Writing (20 credits)

WRI3018 Expanded Writing (20 credits)

WRI3019 Writing Comedy (20 credits)

WRI3020 The Writer at Work (20 credits)

WRI3024 Writing for Digital Adventure Games (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 WRI3023 The Art of Screenwriting.

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?

All modules are assessed by coursework, which includes creative practice, critical practice, essays and reflection on the whole process. There are no formal written examinations as part of the current assessment methods on this programme.

Who will be teaching me?

You will be taught by Creative Writing tutors who are practising, professional writers. They include widely produced and published novelists, short-story writers, poets, dramatists and games writers. The programme team are also practising researchers and academics, publishing work in a variety of academic and literary journals. This means that you will be taught by people who know how to succeed in the creative industries as well as academia. There will also be opportunities to meet with a range of guest speakers and visiting lecturers.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing

£ 9,250 + VAT