Course Overview
This degree gives you skills in creative writing alongside an in-depth understanding of writing for the screen. You will have the opportunity to learn, and then specialize in, a wide range of creative writing disciplines including fiction, novels, screenplays, and creative non-fiction.
In addition, you will study the various forms and processes of screenwriting. from initial outlines through to fully realized film and TV scripts. You will learn from our team of practicing and published poets, novelists, and screenwriters, who will help develop your skills and support your learning.
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
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical DMM – MMM
- 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 Theology graduates are highly valued by employers for their strong problem-solving and communication skills and often continue into a wide range of careers.
Career paths include:
- Novelist
- Publishing
- Teaching
- Marketing
- Journalism
- Communications and PR
- The local and national government
- Copywriting
- Human resources
- Youth work
Course Content
- The Writer’s Notebook
- Introduction to Writing Short Fiction
- Creative Non-Fiction: Starting from the Self
- Source and Exploration
- The Problem of Human Nature
- Faith and Reason
- What is the Good Life?
- The Quest for Truth
- Creative Writing: Poetry, Form and Freedom
- Poetry: 1300 to the Present
- Prose Fiction: The Dynamics of Change
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci-Fi and Beyond
- Enlightenment Europe, 1688-1789
- Fascism and Post-Fascism in Europe
- Environment and State in Britain since 1945
- Freedom and Justice
- Critique, Suspicion and Revolution
- Philosophy and Theory of Religion
- Bio-Ethics
- Saints of Sinners: Politics and Religion in the Contemporary Era
- Kingdom Of Heaven: Crusading And The Holy Land, 1095-1291
- Popes And Politics
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- Dissertation in Theology
- 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
- Writing Flash Fiction
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism
- Contemporary Short Fiction: Writing the Here and Now
- British Cultural Wars
- Dictatorship, Conformity and Resistance in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia
- Political Theology
- Philosophy and the Future
- Revisioning Religion, Gender and Sexuality
- The Theology and Politics of Paul the Apostle
- The Cultural History of Death
- Henry VIII and Court Culture, 1509-1547: Faction, Faith And Fornication
