Creative Writing and Journalism BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Luton

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Luton

About the course An innovative course where you will experience a range of creative outlets: widening your choice of career options. Gain hands-on experience in a wide range of journalistic and creative work, including reporting, news and features, fiction, creative nonfiction and new media writing, working with the latest technology in TV and radio studios, fully equipped edit suites and Press Association news feeds. Tutors are all professional creative writers with publishing and broadcast expertise - they will support you as you develop your own unique voice and channel it through your writing, and give you practical guidance for getting recognised and published.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Luton (Bedfordshire)
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University Of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton Campus (Vicarage Street), LU1 3JU

Start date

On request

About this course

We will consider you as an individual and take into account all elements of your application, not just your qualifications. We are looking for breadth and depth in your current studies and enthusiasm for the subject you wish to study. / entry UCAS Tariff Score of at least , which should include two A levels at C or above UCAS Tariff Score of at least from BTEC level 3 QCF Qualifications which should include a minimum of Merit Merit from either two BTEC Subsidiary Diplomas or from a BTEC Diploma or Merit Merit Pass in the BTEC Extended Diploma UCAS Tariff Score.

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Subjects

  • Industry
  • Options
  • Creative Writing
  • Radio
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Production

Course programme

  • Learn essential tools for writing across genres and media from experienced writers, journalists, academics, research students and alumni
  • Study cross-industry editorial and production skills, with options in magazine, book publishing and radio journalism; and innovative and online writing with options in scriptwriting for film and/or television
  • Develop practical skills in production for television, print and online journalism
  • Gain links with the publishing industry and other writing-related industries through the professional practice element of the course
  • Explore outlets for your own work including the Creative Writing Guild which runs workshops and open mic nights and publishes anthologies of student work
  • Benefit from a course which opens doors to careers in addition that of full-time writer – including advertising and copywriting, TV script-editing, music journalism and teaching or postgraduate study
Contact Keith Jebb, Course Co-ordinator by email at for more information about this course. Or check out what the Creative Writing team are saying on Twitter Year 1
  • Creative Writing Theory and Practice
  • Writing Practices
  • Reporting and Writing
  • Introduction to the Journalism Industry
Year 2
  • Creative Writing: research into Writing
  • Print Production and Design
  • Poetics: Theory into Practice
  • Writing Horror and Dark Fantasy
  • Innovative Writing
  • Specialist Feature Writing
  • Journalism Law and Public Administration
Year 3
  • Ethics and Journalism
  • Special Project (Creative Writing or Journalism)
  • Creative Writing Professional Practice
  • Experiment and Innovation in Context
  • Writing Fantasy Fiction

Creative Writing and Journalism BA (Hons)

Price on request