IELTS 6.0 with no skill below 5.5
Selection Criteria
We may use selection criteria based on your personal attributes; experience and/or commitment to the area of study. This information will be derived from your personal statement and reference and will only be used if you have met the general entry requirements.
International baccalaureate: 24 Points
Explore all forms of writing, from historical narratives to literary texts, drama to adaptations, and mediated writing that makes use of technology.
You will be guided by practising writers and researchers, and the modules you undertake will encourage an interdisciplinary approach to understanding writing and contemporary culture. As you engage with different disciplines, you will inform your own creative practice and develop strong communication and creative thinking skills.
Your first year will provide you with a broad foundation in creative practice and cultural studies, before you specialise in your second and third years. In your second year, you will start to tailor your course to suit your career aspirations through a range of option modules. You will develop your own creative practice by exploring in more depth poetry and the short story. Your third year will see you complete a dissertation-length project in addition to producing an anthology in collaboration with your fellow students and developing entrepreneurial skills.
Year 1
Writers’ Workshop 1
Contemporary Literary Studies
Cultural Studies
Writers’ Workshop 2
The Public & the Past
Poetry
Year 2
Writing Fictions
Adaptation: Textual Afterlives
Writing Poetry: Voice & Audience
Theory into Practice
OPTION MODULES MAY INCLUDE:
Digital History
Popular Music & the Moving Image
Comedy, Media & Diversity
Youth, Crime, Culture
Applied Humanities
Postcolonial Writing
Twentieth-Century Literature: Alienation & Dystopia
Year 3
Creative Writing Project (40 credits)
OPTION MODULES MAY INCLUDE:
Life Writing
Experimental Writing
Writing Drama: Stage & Audio
Career Cartographies
Digital Media & Culture
Civil Rights in North America
Literature & Disability
Public History Project
Postcolonial Cities
Twentieth-Century Women Novelists
Cultural Crossings: Race, Writing and Resistance
The Gothic
Lifestyle, Media, identity
Apartheid & After: Twentieth-Century South Africa
Streetlife: Urban Culture & Society Since c.1850
New Media Geographies
Race, Culture & Media
Popular Music, Dissenting Cultures
Sports Media
Media Stardom & Film Stardom
Pre-Sessional Courses
Improve your English language before starting your chosen degree. It is designed for international and EU students who already hold a conditional offer for an undergraduate or postgraduate course. We have three entry points to the course depending on your level of English.
No Course!
On completion of this course, you will have the skillset to work across a wide range of sectors such as the digital industry, marketing, arts administration and education. Your ability to write clearly and think creatively – as well as your strong communication skills and expert response to contemporary culture - will open opportunities in journalism. Your writing practice will equip you for the fields of creative and professional writing, including freelance work. Alternatively, you could progress on to the MA English Literature at our university.
Freelance writer
Journalist
Editorial assistant
Copywriter
Health Insurance_fee: £300/year
