Modules

Exploring the breadth of the creative industries, you'll develop your writing practice and your reflective and analytical skills both as an individual and as part of a team.

You'll experiment with form and prompts, embrace the art of reading as a writer, and learn how to connect with a vast range of audiences.

The course will prepare you to join the global creative writing marketplace, equipped with specialist knowledge, an adaptable skill set, and a clear vision of your place within the market.

Stage one
You'll begin to develop your writing practice and your reflective and analytical skills both as an individual and as part of a team. You'll experiment with a wealth of forms and prompts, gain an awareness of the context of the creative industries, learn the art of reading as a writer and examine the elements and concepts that mediate, influence and challenge your place as a creator.

Modules:
Dreaming Up Worlds: Imagination, World-Building and Character
True Stories: Creative Non-Fiction and Life-Writing
Post-Digital Writing: Idea, Concept, Platform
Society and Identity

Stage two
You'll push the boundaries of your discipline to extend and enhance your writing, entrepreneurial and critical skills. You'll work in teams to create and publish innovative content, while exploring and analysing audience reception. You'll also have the opportunity to develop your writing and analytical skills across different genres and forms.

Modules
Writing for Screen Media: Games, Film, TV
Bound by None: Place and Adventure
Writing for Performance: Poetry, Theatre, Comedy
Collaborative Project

Stage three
You’ll continue to strengthen your industry presence as a writer and be encouraged to submit your work to active calls for submission. You’ll also hone your own voice further with a deep-dive into a genre of your choosing – developing a critical and market-based understanding of its intricacies. All this will culminate in your final project, where you’ll be supported by your supervisor to produce a substantial creative piece in a specific form and genre. You'll take a more entrepreneurial approach to your practice and establish your public persona as a 21st-century writer.

Modules
The Hybrid
Genres and Disruptive Fictions
Masterpiece: Individual Project
Publishing Lab: Entrepreneurial Practice

The modules above are those being studied by our students, or proposed new ones. Programme structures and modules can change as part of our curriculum enhancement and review processes. If a certain module is important to you, please discuss it with the Course Leader.

Assessment methods

The BA(Hons) Creative Writing online employs a range of assessments and strategies throughout the course, including formative and summative assessments.

Formative assessment in the form of continuous written and/or verbal feedback takes place across the module through your participation in the different learning activities and webinars, and by exchanging peer feedback on ideas and work in progress. This kind of assessment supports you to develop your writing, critical and reflective skills and to keep up to date with your course work.

Summative assessment takes place on each module, usually at mid-points and at the end of the module. Activities across each module will help you prepare for these assessments. Assessment types include portfolios, reviews, pitches, presentations, reflective journals, case studies, competition analysis, documentation of projects and the final project, which is the major project of the end of your course. At the end of the module you'll receive written feedback and a mark for each assignment via an online feedback system within three weeks of the deadline.

You'll be able to check in with your online tutor to discuss your progress and ask any questions you have about your course.