BA (Hons) History and Creative Writing
Bachelor's degree
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
In your first year, you’ll explore a wide range of historical eras ranging from 1450 to 2000. You’ll take a module on the ‘historians’ toolkit,’ specially designed to help with the transition to university. For Creative Writing, you’ll take a module on ‘becoming a writer,’ where you’ll get hands on with writing different genres in two-hour workshops. You’ll also explore writing for the screen, building different worlds in fiction writing and more.
In your second year, all your modules are optional. This means you will be able to choose those modules that suit your interests best. You can choose to look at poetry, playwriting, or literature for Creative Writing. For History you can opt to learn how to make a historical documentary, which encompasses both subjects. You’ll be able to look at the British empire, crime in 16th to 18th century England, and much more.
Work placement/study abroad option: Between your second and final year, you’ll have the option to study abroad or do a work placement for up to a year. Not only will this give you an amazing experience to talk about but will also give your CV a boost. If you’d rather go straight to your final year, that’s fine too.
In your third year, you’ll really hone in on what you’ve learnt so far. Most of your modules will be workshop and seminar based, with complementary lectures where applicable. You can take on a History project, where you independently research an area of your choosing. You’ll also work on a Creative Writing project, which is the culmination of three years’ worth of studying. For your project you can either choose poetry or prose.
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About this course
This joint course allows you to do both. Studying History will teach you how human emotions, needs and desires act as political, social, and cultural catalysts for change. You can then apply this knowledge to your writing, whether you prefer fiction or non-fiction. This will make you a versatile writer, who is able to write in depth about the human psyche and how this underlies the changes we see in the world.
UCAS points 104
A Level BCC
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Subjects
- Creative Writing
- Art
- Magic
- Writing
- Poetry
- Project
- Prose
Course programme
Degree programmes are structured into levels, 4, 5 and 6. These correspond to your first, second and third/final year of study. Below you can see what modules you’ll be studying in each.
Level 4
Module
- Becoming a Writer
- Belief and Disbelief: Faith, Magic and Medicine, 1500 - 1800
- Genre Fiction: Building Worlds
- Writing for the screen
- Identity and Contemporary Writing
- The Fight for Rights: Freedom and Oppression, 1790s-1990s
- Historians' Toolkit
- Africa and the World, 1450-1850
- Cashing In: Traders and Consumers, 1600 - 2001
- Introduction to Public History
- The Heritage Industry in Britain
- Leisure and Lifestyle: 20th Century American Music, Sport and Entertainment
Module
- Graduate Skills
- USA 1861 to 1969: From Civil War to Civil Rights A
- Writing for the Stag
- Language and Imagination: The Art of the Poem
- Writing for the Screen
- Literature at Work
- Hearth & Heart: Family Life in the Long Eighteenth-Century
- Propaganda in Twentieth-Century War and Politics
- Nation & Identity: Newly Independent States in Interwar Europe, 1918-1939
- Making a Historical Documentary
- Making Histories: Public History Work Experience
- Postcards from the Empire: Experiences of British Imperialism
- Maladies and Medicine in Early Modern Europe
- Crime and Society in England, 1550-1750
- The Age of the Cold War, 1945-1991
Module
- Tell It Slant: Writing and Reality
- Short Story Workshop
- Creative Writing Project Poetry
- Creative Writing Project Prose
Additional information
EU Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students Fee
Full time - £13450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
BA (Hons) History and Creative Writing