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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
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A Degree with a Foundation Year gives you guaranteed entry to an Undergraduate course.
Whether you’re returning to learning and require additional help and support to up-skill, or if you didn’t quite meet the grades to pursue an Undergraduate course, our Degrees with Foundation Year provide a fantastic entry route for you to work towards a degree level qualification.
With our guidance and support you’ll get up to speed within one year, and will be ready to seamlessly progress on to undergraduate study at Bedfordshire.
The Foundation Year provides an opportunity to build up your academic writing skills and numeracy, and will also cover a range of subject specific content to fully prepare you for entry to an Undergraduate degree.
This is an integrated four-year degree, with the foundation year as a key part of the course. You will need to successfully complete the Foundation Year to progress on to the first year of your bachelor’s degree.
Why study a degree with a Foundation Year?
The degrees offering a Foundation Year provide excellent preparation for your future studies.
During your Foundation Year you will get the opportunity to talk to tutors about your degree study and future career aspirations, and receive guidance on the most appropriate Undergraduate course to help you achieve this; providing you meet the entry requirements and pass the Foundation Year.
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Print, broadcast media, online publishing, and press offices all require journalists at local, regional, national and international levels. Other career paths include research, sub-editing, production, editorial, new media production, columnists in regional, national and international media companies.
The creative writing units all contribute to producing creative work of a professional standard, with an emphasis on getting your work published, produced or performed. The creative writing units will have transferable skills which will help in the journalism side of the course.
Insurance-Single: 300 GBP/year