Creative Writing And English (Ba): 3-Year, Full-Time
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
Have you always wanted to be a writer? Have you got a story to tell but you don't know how to unlock it? Do you want to know more about the craft of writing? Do you want to learn how to read both as a critic and as a writer?
If so, our BA Creative Writing and English is ideal. In the heart of literary London, in a building that was once home to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, you will study with leading academics and celebrated published authors across the fields of fiction, poetry and drama.
You will also develop your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of literary writing in English, from earliest times to the present day. This degree culminates in the opportunity to develop both extended creative and critical pieces under the guidance of award-winning writers.
We also offer a four-year, part-time, evening study BA Creative Writing and English.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in creative writing, journalism, education or media production. This degree may also be useful in becoming an author, journalist, higher education lecturer or screenwriter.
Birkbeck creative writing graduates include:
Niki Aguirre
Sarah Alexander
Laura Allsop
Iphgenia Baal
Phoebe Blatton
Nicole Burstein
Tray Butler
Melissa De Villiers
Liz Fremantle
A. J. Grainger
Julia Gray
Emma Henderson
Sally Hinchcliffe
Anna Hope
Heidi James
Olya Knezevic
Nik Korpon
Matthew Loukes
Nii Parkes
Helen Pike
Nadim Safdar
Karin Salvalaggio
David Savill.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
All applicants, whatever their academic background, must submit a sample of 1000 words of creative writing (fiction, poetry, drama, or screenwriting).
Awarding Body
University of London
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Subjects
- Creative Writing
- English
- Drama
- Writing
- Full Time
- Poetry
- Developing
- Understanding
- Theories
- Literature
Course programme
In Year 1, you take seven core modules that will introduce you to the basic elements of craft in the writing of prose fiction, drama and poetry and to some of the major genres and periods of English literature, while developing your skills in understanding and applying a range of critical theories and methods.
In Year 2, you take a core creative writing module that will develop your writing skills in longer-form fiction. You also take a compulsory English literature module that will develop your ability to critically evaluate longer fiction.
In your final year, you take a compulsory module that explores the boundary between creative and critical writing, and undertake a dissertation.
All other modules are optional, chosen from a wide range offered across our BA English and our BA Creative Writing programmes. You can also choose option modules on related programmes in the School of Arts, such as our BA Liberal Arts.
YEAR 1 CORE MODULES
- Doing English
- Independent Reading Portfolio: The Short Story
- Introduction to Drama
- Introduction to Poetry
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Reading Literature
- Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques
- Narrative Methods
- The Novel: Writing the Modern World
- The Creative Critical Seam
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Fiction Workshop: The Contemporary Novel
- Poetry Workshop 1
- Poetry Workshop 2: The Open Page
- Scriptwriting Workshop 1: The Essentials of Stage and Screen (The 30 Minute Script)
- Scriptwriting Workshop 2: Writing for the Contemporary Stage
- Scriptwriting Workshop 3: The Radio Drama
- Scriptwriting Workshop 4: The Television Drama (The 60 Minute Script)
- Benjamin / Barthes
- Blake
- Contemporary British Fiction
- Fin-De-Siecle
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Gothic Romance 1764-Present
- Literature and the Politics of Feelings
- Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
- Milton
- Reading Joyce's Ulysses
- Shakespeare and Performance
- Telling the self
- Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
- BA Dissertation in Creative Writing and English
- Dissertation BA Creative Writing
- Dissertation BA English
Additional information
FEES
Full-time international students: £ 14280 pa
Creative Writing And English (Ba): 3-Year, Full-Time