Year 3 (national level 6):
Core modules:
Major Project (40 credits)
Explore your burgeoning specialism or passion and develop your connections. Develop a major project in your preferred focus. Take any approach experienced from the course, e.g., a professional writing project, a creative writing project, performance, or project that combines approaches or other specialism drawn from optional modules you may have taken during the course.
Writing Identities (20 credits)
Gain an understanding of gender, sexuality and other stereotypes, and how you can unpack these issues of identity in your writing. Develop an understanding of the debates relating to gender and sexuality in contemporary society, using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Trace the various approaches to gender, sexuality, and other identities since the 1970s and how these have come to influence our understanding of identity today. Get the opportunity to creatively respond to these ideas and histories, through workshops full of writing exercises, writing-focused reading, and peer critique.
Reading as Writers (20 credits)
Consolidate your knowledge and understanding of what it means to be a ‘reader’ in a ‘professions-facing career-focused’ (PFCF) context. Professional writers, and those who work in the creative industries with writers, do not read like ‘ordinary’ readers. Find out how to read like a professional so you can apply this knowledge to your own professional practice.
Writing Dynamic Content (20 credits)
Explore examples of digital writing from a range of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, essay, gaming and audio such as podcasts, working towards an assessed portfolio of work. Examine digital terminology, social media content such as BookTok and Instagram.
Optional modules (choose one):
The Business of Writing: Advanced publishing (20 credits)
Develop advanced insight into the contemporary landscape of UK literature and publishing and how they shape writing careers. Explore advanced technologies involved in creative and professional writing careers and businesses, and how publishing now spans TV, film, graphic novels, adapted versions for children and other audiences. Gain analytical skills to discuss works of cross-media publishing. Complete the module by submitting proposals for publishing projects for authors and writers in the UK market.
Screenwriting For Television and Film (20 credits)
Understand how many films and television programmes that we see today are adaptations, whether that be from true stories, novels, plays, games or short stories. Write a 30-minute script adaptation for film or TV. Attend lectures, seminars, screenings and practical writing workshops.
Radio Drama (20 credits)
Gain an understanding of the development of radio drama within the BBC and in independent production and in experimental drama. Participate in production workshops in idea formation, pitching, production management, scriptwriting, casting, studio direction and creative production.
You can also select modules in scriptwriting, journalism and audio drama.
