This is the 4 year course which includes a Professional Placement Year. - More specialist strands than any other course in the UK. - Focus on graduate employability, building industry connections. - Large and diverse student body – close to 500 students from across the world. This course is challenging, exciting, and versatile. Here, you can expect a professional level of tuition – and we expect a professional level of commitment and achievement from you in return. Our comprehensive programme includes prose, poetry, scriptwriting for the stage and screen, feature journalism, writing for new media, life writing: in fact, whatever you want to write, you’ll find an opportunity at Bath Spa University. We also work with drama and film students to produce films and podcasts, and encourage you to get involved in a wide range of writing-related areas such as readings, performances and magazines. Employability is central to the writing programme. Both individually and in groups, you'll prepare for the writing/creative industry career of your choice. **More about the Professional Placement Year** A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where a student undertakes a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between the students' second and third years of undergraduate study. Students can engage in up to 3 placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) themselves with support from the Careers and Employability Team.

Year One will develop your key skills in creative writing through four core modules: Writer’s Workshop, Poetry, Fiction, and Scriptwriting. You will have the opportunity to take optional modules for major and joint students. In Year 2 you’ll specialise in a core module of your choice alongside a wide range of specialist modules, which can include journalism and new media, writing for young people, traditional “page” poetry, genre fiction, short stories, nonfiction and more. Finally, Year 3 will see you take on a Creative Enterprise module as well as a dissertation-equivalent project in either poetry, novel writing, nonfiction, writing for young people. Optional modules include independent project module, collaborative film module as some examples. For more information please refer to the website.

Assessment is based on 100% coursework (no exams). Most modules will require you to submit a portfolio of creative writing along with a reflective essay in which you describe what you have learned in class, what you have learned from the set texts and working on your own writing.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

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.

Course code: W801

Institution code: B20

Campus Name: Main Site

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Year 2

Year 4

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Student satisfaction : 68%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 84%

EU	9250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1

Additional Fee Information are not listed for this Course.

Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Bath
BA2 9BN