Bachelor's degree

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Luton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Gain experience of a wide range of journalistic and creative work, including news reporting, news writing and feature writing, fiction writing, creative non-fiction and new-media writing. Provides an insight into current practices and future developments in journalism.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Luton (Bedfordshire)
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Bedfordshire Institute Of Media And The Creative & Performing Arts, University Of Bedfordshire, Luton Campus, LU1 3JU

Start date

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About this course

* UCAS Tariff Score greater than 160, which should include either two A level passes or an AVCE Double Award
* An Access qualification
* Equivalent qualifications such as Irish Leaving Certificate, Scottish Highers, International Baccalaureate or BTEC National Diploma

If you left school or the further education sector without the normal academic qualifications for entry to higher education, the 4-year extended degree route may be suitable for you.

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Course programme

BA Hons Creative Writing and Journalism
Mode: full-time

This course is taught by a team of professionals with print, broadcast and academic expertise.

On journalism courses, you will work with the latest technology in a newsroom equipped with Apple Mac computers and Press Association news feeds, with TV and radio studios and edit suites available. Creative writing courses give you access to experienced writers, academics, professionals, research students and alumni of the course, via readings, seminars and in-house projects.

In Creative Writing you will be taught initially across a wide range of forms and genres, with the aim of specialising in one or two as the course progresses. You will encounter innovative and online writing forms and produce both page-based texts, and texts that are grounded in a variety of media. You may also study script writing - for screen or stage.

Areas of study include:

  • Reporting and Writing
  • Scriptwriting
  • Performance and Innovative Writing
  • Creative Non-fiction/Literary Journalism
  • Sub-editing, Layout and Design

Why choose this course?

  • This course gives students the opportunity to develop a wide career base
  • Literary journalism has a large variety of popular and more specialist subject outlets
  • Synergy between journalistic and creative writing skills is ideal preparation for a world of proliferating multi-platform online resources
  • A rare course combination that offers a range of career options
  • Innovative course content with a strong element of new media and multi-media writing
  • Work in a stimulating, creative environment of practice-based teaching and learning
  • Our students do not just learn about writing and journalism; they get hands-on experience
  • Gives advice on being published and finding outlets
  • Opportunities to write creatively across a range of genres/media
  • Experience of editorial and production skills for television, radio, print and online journalism
  • Final project may be devoted to Creative Writing or Journalism, or to hybrid forms

Career Opportunities

A wide range of careers, from print and new-media journalism to the practice of creative writing across a range of genres. Also advertising, education and careers in the arts and arts administration.

Teaching/learning methods and strategies

Both aspects of the course include a large element of project and assignment work, and require students to be independent, self-motivated, and to be able to initiate and follow up their own ideas and plans of study.

In the third year Special Project, students can choose to work in either Journalism or Creative Writing, or in any areas that cut across or combine the two, from literary journalism to arts-reviewing from faction-writing to fanzines.

Assessment

Assessment is predominantly practice-based, through actual hands-on creative and journalism writing.

Further details about the course

You will have access to a wide variety of course-related activities, from campus-based radio and television outlets, through print and online publications, to an active Creative Writing Society and the chance to take part in the annual B:Fest Luton Arts Festival. Some of these are extra-curricula, whilst others are written in to elements of the course itself.

Creative Writing and Journalism

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