Creative Studies and English Language BA (Hons)

Bangor University

Bachelor's degree

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

This exciting course course is run by the School of Creative Studies and Media in collaboration with Bangor’s School of Linguistics and English Language. It is aimed at students who want to study Creative Studies (combining some study of: creative writing, film studies, theatre studies, media and journalism studies) with the study of English Language. This course course will equip you with a lively grounding in the practical and critical skills required in these connected fields.

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Location

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Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: Students will demonstrate familiarity with the core areas of linguistics

Students will develop knowledge of basic terminology and techniques for the analysis of natural language.

Students will achieve a basic understanding of a wide range of topics in the study of natural language.

Students will develop a basic ability to analyse natural language data, and to carry out phonetic transcription.

Students will develop the ability to plan and write an academic essay, plan and prepare an oral presentation,and to prepare appropriately and effectively for examinations.


Creative Studies and Media courses have seen graduates involved in both academe and in industry, including work in:

Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing;
Performance and the Theatre, both on and behind the stage;
Print and/or Broadcast Journalism;
Actors, presenters and in television programme production;
Advertising and the Marketing industries;
Radio, as presenters, as well as in programme production;
Digital, Web and New Media production;
Multi media industries.

We aim to interview all candidates.

300 260 points
We consider mature students with non standard qualifications.

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Theatre Studies
  • Theatre
  • School
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Production
  • Creative Studies
  • Practical and critical tasks
  • The Arts of Writing
  • Creative Writing: Forms and Techniques

Course programme

What will you study on this course?Creative Studies Year 1 60 credits from: The Arts of Writing (20) Creative Writing: Forms and Techniques (20) Introduction to Film History (20) The Language of Film (20) Introduction to Textual Analysis (20) Introduction to Theatre Studies (20) Modern Theatre (20) IT for Creative Industries (20) Introduction to Journalism (20) Television and Radio Studies (20) Introduction to Media Production (20) Media and Popular Music Culture (10) Games, Disks and the Web (20) My Creative Project (20) (core) Saints, Geniuses, Stars (20) Creating Fiction (20) Animation from Mickey to Manga (20) Women on Film (20) Poetry and Performance (20) Year 2 60 credits from: Film Theory/Film Culture (20) Creative Writing: Showing and Telling (20) Creative Writing: The Novel (20) Writing for Film and the Media (20) Standard Media Production (20) Development of Journalism (20) Essentials of Multimedia (20) Scripts for Theatre and Television (20) Development and Censorship of Television (20) Directing Theatre (20) Styles of Theatre (20) Marketing Creativity (20) Documentary and Drama (20) British Publishing Uncovered (20) Developing Multimedia (20) Writing for Children (20) Creative Project 2 (20) Year 3 60 credits from: Marketing Creative Writing (20) Advanced Practical Journalism (20) Creative Project 3 (20) Writing Hypertext (20) Advanced Media Production (20) The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (20) Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20) Creative Writing and Production 2 (20) Creative Writing Dissertation (40) PR and Visual Journalism (20) Scripts for Theatre and Television (20) Development and Censorship of Television (20) Directing Theatre (20) Styles of Theatre (20) British Cinema (20) America on Film (20) Celtic Film (20) English Language Year 1 Core: Tools for Language Analysis I (20) English in Society (20) Tools for Language Analysis II (20) Year 2 60 credits chosen from: Sentence Structure: Syntax (20) Variation in English (20) Meaning (20) Research Methods and Design (20) Year 3 60 credits chosen from: Speech and Language Disorders (20) Child Language Acquisition (20) History of English (20) Language and Gender (20) Teaching EFL (20) Interactional Pragmatics (20) Applied Linguistics TEFL (20) Sociolinguistics (20) Bilingualism (20) Forensic Linguistics (20) Discourse Analysis (20) English and Globalisation (20)

Additional information

Research and practice Our courses combine elements of research and practice. You have the opportunity to create and produce in all media fields under the supervision of staff that have many years of experience working in the media. We have excellent links with theatre companies, newspapers and the television industry. BBC Wales’ television and radio centre is literally next door, and there are many independent producers nearby. Students will be able to take advantage of the new Pontio centre, which includes a theatre, a cinema, a design and innovation centre, and spacious lecture rooms. Our students play a prominent role in many creative projects, such as Student Cut Films, two student newspapers – Seren and Llef – and a radio station, Storm FM.

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Creative Studies and English Language BA (Hons)

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