IELTS 7.0, with no component below 6.0
Develop as an artist, curator and writer with our BA Art and Creative Writing programme.
This four-year, joint honours course reflects recent developments in art and culture. For example, you will:
learn about new digital art and publishing platforms
expand your understanding of contemporary literature and art theories
develop your skills in art writing.
Art and creative writing are a stimulating combination at degree level – they enhance and inform one another. Additionally, studying theories and practitioners across the art and literature disciplines will inspire and influence your own art and writing as you hone your technique and form.
Art
Studying at the Reading School of Art allows you to explore a vast range of media and experiment with emerging art forms.
Over the course of your four years of study, you will:
work with academics who include artists, curators and researchers
be encouraged to participate in exhibitions, public art commissions and events
receive dedicated studio space, accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and a studio tutor to help develop your individual and professional practice.
You will complement your practical art with modules in contemporary art theory and the history of art. Through the lectures, seminars and studio teaching – as well as weekly visiting artist talks – you will be exposed to the language, vocabulary and debates that have emerged historically and evolved to forge contemporary art.
Creative writing
Explore literature creatively as you develop characters, shape poems, and draw on your imagination.
You will learn from prize-winning authors and academics who have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean fiction.
We are committed to teaching through the workshop model. These small group sessions are the heart of Reading’s writing community: guided by one of our lecturers, you and your fellow students will gain confidence as your share your writing and help each other improve.
You will also have the opportunity to publish your work – and gain experience in editing and publishing – by participating in our annual Creative Writing Anthology.
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Year 1
Year 2
Compulsory modules include:
Year 3
Core modules include:
Art Studio
Optional modules include:
Image Action Text
Affect, Aesthetics and the Event
Utopias and Other Worlds
Landscape and Memory
Independent Study
Family Romances: Genealogy, Identity, and Imposture in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
'Eyes on the Prize': Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
Black British Fiction
Children's Literature
City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
Class Matters
Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
Colonial Explorations
Contemporary American Fiction
Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
Dickens
Editing the Renaissance
Fiction and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain and America
Hitchcock
Holocaust Fiction
Irish Poetry after Yeats
James Joyce
John Milton: Poet of the English Republic
Literature and the Railway
Margaret Atwood
Modern Epic
Modern Scottish Fiction: from Jean Brodie to Trainspotting
Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
Nigerian Prose Literature: from Achebe to Adichie
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Packaging Literature
Psychoanalysis and Text
Samuel Beckett
Science in Culture
Shakespeare on Film
The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sex and Sensibility
The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
What is the Contemporary?
Writing Global Justice
Writing Women: nineteenth-century poetry
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 4
Core modules include:
Art Studio
Creative Writing Dissertation
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
A degree in art and creative writing will prepare you to enter professions across the cultural field. For example, you could choose to work in:
museum and gallery education
publishing
postproduction
theatre
television
public relations.
You will enter the job market with practical experience and highly-developed research and communication skills. You will know how to access reliable information and present your findings in clear and persuasive language. These are valuable skills in today’s economy, where information and communication skills are vital. You will also have the critical and cultural awareness necessary for working in the public sector and the media.
Some of our students decide to continue their studies at postgraduate level; others have successful careers in fields as diverse as law, business administration, web design, teaching, and journalism.
Overall, 93% of our art graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduating (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey, 2016/17).
Past art and literature graduates have gone on to work for employers such as:
Tate
Whitechapel Gallery
The Burlington Magazine
Christies
Microsoft
BBC
The Telegraph
Oxford University Press
Waterstones
Cisco Systems
Royal Mint.
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