Creative Writing and Drama BA (Hons)
Bath Spa University
Key Information
Campus location
Bath, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
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Full time
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Introduction
Creative Writing and Drama BA (Hons)
Creative Writing
Contemporary creative writing is diverse. Its digital and on the page; social and singular. Our comprehensive Program includes prose fiction, YA, flash fiction, poetry, scriptwriting for live performance and screen, life writing and memoir.
In fact, whatever you want to write, You'll find an opportunity to explore it with us. We have modules on graphic novels and comics alongside modules in live literature, creative enterprise and professional practice to support your career development. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate on creative projects with other students both within and outside Creative Writing.
Drama
Studying Drama at Bath Spa gives you the performance, critical and creative skills you need to launch yourself into a variety of exciting careers.
You'll explore your creative identity throughcore and optional modulesin areas of practice such as play production, performing, writing and directing, and topics such as Shakespeare, musical theatre, physical theatre, applied theatre and media and performance.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year one
The course is carefully designed to enable you to explore and experiment with your writing and understand the foundations of writing craft. In the Writers Workshop modules You'll be introduced to an array of different writing forms and genres and You'll be experimenting with them each week. You'll have your first experience of the BSU writing workshop where You'll learn how to work with other writers, giving and receiving feedback. You'll have additional modules in poetry, fiction, script writing alongside a module where You'll learn about the publishing industry and editing. You'll also attend lectures from visiting writers and members of staff who will talk to you about their writing lives and experiences in the industry.
Year two
In the second year of the course, you have access to a range of modules that will enable you to specialise in a particular form or genre of writing. You'll take a mixture of core and optional modules from a list that includes, for example, genre fiction, life writing, short stories, form and listening in poetry, and writing for screen. You will also take the project module, Professional Portfolio. This is an opportunity for you to develop your own creative project, designed to help you develop the skills you need as a professional writer. You will be assigned a member of staff to be your project supervisor. They will help guide and advise you as you develop your idea. If a collaborative project suits you, you can take a Publishing module where you work with a small team of fellow students to create your own independent magazine.
Year three
The final year of the Program is designed to consolidate your writing practice and support your progression into a writing-related career. You will take a dissertation-equivalent module in at least one of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scriptwriting or writing for young people. These modules run through the year. Alongside that you have a choice of career-focused modules which include Live Literature and Professional Practice which offer you the opportunity to develop your own industry-facing creative projects. We also offer an extended project module, Creative Enterprise, over two semesters. This module helps you focus on developing a creative project into a commercial opportunity.
Program Outcome
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Creative Writing
- A systematic and sustained critical awareness of the ways in which the aesthetic / stylistic framework of their own writing appeals to different audiences and markets
- Sustained reflection on their own process and product
- Critical ability to evaluate arguments and assumptions in order to use others feedback to improve the quality of creative work
Drama
- Systematic understanding of a wide range of modern and contemporary drama, theatre and performance genres, forms and practices and their production and reception
- Collaborative skills relating to the ability to operate safely, ethically and creatively within a wide range of performance contexts including interdisciplinary contexts
- The synthesis of research, disciplinespecific knowledge and artistic skills in performance projects and/or community ventures
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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