Whether you dream of penning novels, writing for games, creating compelling digital campaigns or writing award-winning screenplays, fast-track your career in the world of writing with this exciting, industry-focused online degree. Learning from experienced professionals, you'll explore the evolving needs of the writing marketplace, from digital content creation to screenwriting and writing for games, while actively engaging with our industry connections. With the chance to work on live briefs in creative teams, you'll graduate with an assured voice ready to make your mark. You will: Experiment and take risks to nurture your own critically-informed, creative spark. Explore existing and emerging forms of writing. Cultivate your independent creative and critical thinking skills. Develop and enhance your craft by creating and publishing high quality content across a range of formats and platforms. Prepare to join the global writing marketplace with specialist knowledge and an adaptable skillset responsive to change. Learn how to connect with a vast range of audiences through your writing. Collaborate within teams, reflecting industry practice.

Across this part-time online course you'll begin to develop your writing practise 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. 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, Character and World-Building True Stories Post-Digital Writing 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, Comedy & Stage Collaborative Project Working in real-world contexts with other students and industry partners, you'll develop creative working strategies, communication and advanced project planning skills. 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: Final 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.

The BA(Hons) Creative Writing part-time online course 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.

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

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If you are able to demonstrate relevant, current, equivalent experience instead of formal qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Please contact our Applicant Services team before applying, for advice regarding your individual experience and eligibility. If you are an international applicant and require a Student visa to study in the UK, you must have a recognised English language test approved and vouched for by the University at the appropriate level. Our Applicant Services team can help you with any general questions you may have about study visas or suitable language tests. For more specific advice, we recommend you also consult UKCISA http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/

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