BA (Hons) 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. In this course, you’ll 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, you’ll learn about ethics, target audiences, and the journey from interview to the finished article. You’ll analyze newspapers and their values, as well as exploring broadcasting and online journalism. In creative writing, you’ll learn important skills for devising, editing, revising, and submitting your work. You’ll analyze texts, explore the effects of the author’s choices, and create short stories, drama, poetry, and creative nonfiction of your own. You’ll also have opportunities to work with schools or museums, attend guest lectures, study abroad, or take a year’s work placement.

Study abroad

Students may decide to take an optional additional year to study abroad or take an internship in a relevant industry in order to gain extra experience. These options are described below.

Work placement

The Placement Year provides you with the opportunity to set your academic studies in a broader, practical context and to gain experience in specific areas relevant to your fields of study. You will also strengthen your time management, organizational, and communication skills as well as develop employability skills.

The Placement Year helps you to develop as an independent learner and apply the communication, analytical and other skills gained from studying to the workplace.