BA (Hons) in Journalism and Creative Writing

A career in writing enables you to explore the world through your work discovering people and places, exploring unfolding events, influencing debate, and shaping your own creative voice. On this course, youll write for blogs, websites, print, video, audio and multimedia contexts, developing the skills to research your subject and really engage your readers. Together, these subjects give you exciting opportunities to develop your voice as a writer and discover ways to publish your work. In journalism, youll learn about ethics, target audiences and the journey from interview to finished article. Youll produce work on a variety of platforms from blogs to print and report on international stories and ones guided by your interests. In creative writing, youll learn important skills for devising, editing, revising and submitting your work. Youll analyse texts, explore the effects of the author's choices and create short stories, drama, poetry and creative nonfiction of your own. Youll also have opportunities to work with schools or museums, attend guest lectures, study abroad or take a year's work placement.

Our graduates have an excellent record of gaining employment in media, publishing, teaching and information management where their skills in analysis, communication and evaluation are highly valued. Many of our graduates go on to higher levels of study engaging in research in their chosen fields. Whatever your future career plans, what is important to your potential employers is the range of intellectual, transferable, personal skills and experience you have gained and can demonstrate. We ensure our programmes are relevant to the world of work through active links with regional employers across a range of industries and professions.

Duration- 3 years(4 year with sandwich year)
Study abroad option
Work placement option

UCAS points- 112-120
A Level - BBC-BBB

BTEC - DMM-DDM

GCSE: Grade 4/C in English Language and Mathematics

IELTS - Score of 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in any band)
TOEFL IBT - 72 with band scores of reading 18, writing 17, listening 17, speaking 20, Pearson Test of English (PTE) - 51 (with no less than 42 in any band)