Course Content
Year 1
- Creative Reviews and Features – 20 credits
- Professional Writing – 20 credits
- Telling Tales – 20 credits
- Tips, Tricks, Techniques – 20 credits
- True Stories – 20 credits
- Writing for the Film and Tv Industries – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Creative Writing and Critical Thinking – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Fiction – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Nonfiction – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Comic Book Industries – 20 credits
- Creative Writing for Comedy – 20 credits
- Creative Writing for Film – 20 credits
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Speculative Fiction – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Writing for Performance – 20 credits
- Investigative Journalism – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- Playwriting and Text for Performance – 20 credits
- Press and Public Relations – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Specialist Journalism – 20 credits
- Student Enterprise – 20 credits
- Transmedia Narratives and Strategies – 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
- Work Placement Year – 120 credits
Year 3
The core module in this year is:
- Creative Writing Dissertation – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Cultures of Consumption – 20 credits
- Fact and Fiction – 20 credits
- Fan Fiction – 20 credits
- Global Journalism and Human Rights – 20 credits
- Media Fan Cultures – 20 credits
- Representing Science in the Media – 20 credits
- Researching Animation – 20 credits
- Studying Comedy – 20 credits
- Travel Writing – 20 credits
- Writing Project (with Publishing) – 20 credits
- Writing and Producing Magazines – 20 credits
