BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Philosophy and Ethics with Professional Placement Year

Join us at Bath Spa University where writing is the thing we love to do and the thing we love to talk about. In our workshops, youll find friends for life who, like you, want to spend time in a writing world of imagination, creativity and experimentation.

Youll enjoy working on our unique campus, surrounded by wildlife and a beautiful 18th-century landscape, perfect for creative inspiration. You might experiment with nature writing or discover poems and stories youre driven to write as a response to climate change and environmental issues. Contemporary creative writing is diverse. It's digital and on the page, social and singular. Our comprehensive programme includes prose fiction, YA, flash fiction, poetry, scriptwriting for live performance and screen, life writing and memoir.

In fact, whatever you want to write, youll 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.

This optional placement year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.

A Level - grades BBB-BCC including a Grade B in English or a related subject.
BTEC Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM) in any subject. Applicants will need to demonstrate a strong interest in Creative Writing in their personal statement and may be asked to provide a piece of their own creative writing.
T Levels grade Merit preferred in a relevant subject.
International Baccalaureate a minimum of 32 points are required with a minimum of grade 5 in English at Higher Level.

IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.
TOEFL iBT- A total of 72, to include a minimum 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking, and 17 in Writing.