Course Overview
Our BA (Hons) Creative Writing and History course grow your ability as a creative writer as you develop your knowledge of historical analysis, critical debate, and research skills. Learn from our team of practicing and published poets, short story writers, novelists, dramatists, and screenwriters, as you develop and find the creative writing medium that fits your voice.
In addition, you will explore your passion for history with modules that cover the Medieval period through into the twenty-first century: both in Britain and across the world. You’ll work with experienced tutors and experts who use the latest research to underlie their teaching to ensure that you have access to emerging creative writing techniques and the latest debates within the study of history.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 96-120 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBB-CCC
- Access to HE Diploma- Pass with 12 level 3 credits worth of English units at Merit.
- IB- 28 points with English Higher at 4.
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Careers
Our Creative Writing and History graduates are highly valued by employers for their strong problem-solving and communication skills and often continue into a variety of careers.
Career paths include:
- Novelist
- Publishing
- Teaching
- Journalism
- Copywriting
- Marketing
Course Content
- The Writer’s Notebook
- Introduction to Writing Short Fiction
- Creative Non-Fiction: Starting from the Self
- Source and Exploration
- Source and Exploration
- War and Peace: Twentieth Century Europe and Global Conflict
- The United States: An Introduction (1763 – The Present)
- Europe and the Mediterranean World: Society, Identity, Encounters 1450-1700
- Creative Writing: Poetry, Form and Freedom
- Poetry: 1300 to the Present
- Renaissance to Restoration
- From ‘Angry Young Men’ To Cool Britannia?: A Historical Analysis Of British Cultural Activity After 1945
- Stuart England, 1603-88: Rebellion, Restoration And Revolution
- Popes And Politics
- Kingdom Of Heaven: Crusading And The Holy Land, 1095-1291
- Women And Gender, 1000-1600
- A Social History Of Early Modern England 1550-1750
- Environment and State in Britain since 1945
- Prose Fiction: The Dynamics of Change
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci-Fi and Beyond
- Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Enlightenment Europe, 1688-1789
- Approaches To Research
- Romantics, Rebels, Reactionaries
- Heritage In Practice: Work Placements For History Students
- Fascism and Post-Fascism in Europe
- Culture And Civilisation In Late Medieval England, C.1200-1550
- Art & Knowledge In Europe: From Early Renaissance To Baroque (1250-1650)
- Re-Litigating The Past: State, Media And Historical Injustice In Contemporary Britain
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- Writing the Novel
- Making it Strange: Writing the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Modern Gothic Novel
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Digital Writing: Writing for the Community of Strangers
- Dissertation in History
- Unconscious Desires: Psychoanalysis and Culture from Freud to Žižek
- Gothic, Romanticism and Women’s Writing: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austin
- Louis XIV’s France, 1643-1715
- Kingship, Queenship And Power In Late Medieval And Early Modern Europe
- The Cultural History of Death
- Pan-Africanism
- Henry VIII and Court Culture, 1509-1547: Faction, Faith And Fornication
- International Law
- British Cultural Wars
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- Dissertation in History
- Writing Flash Fiction
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism
- Contemporary Short Fiction: Writing the Here and Now
- Commerce And Consumption In Early Modern England, C. 1600-1750
- Vice To Virtue? The Origins And Outcomes Of The French Revolution 1744-94
- Dictatorship, Conformity and Resistance in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia
- A Global History Of The Cold War
- Globalization and its Malcontents
