Creative Writing

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Award
BA (Single Honours)

UCAS Code
W801

Course length
3 years full-time.
Part-time study available

Entry requirements

See introduction

You will be invited to visit the University to discuss the course. Entry is based on individual merit.

Career opportunities

Writing
Teaching
Community Work
Publishing
Film, Television and Media
Web Design, Editing and Content Writing
Marketing
Postgraduate study/research, including MA Creative Writing, MA Creative Arts and MBA Arts Management at Trinity

About the Course

Creative Writing is an exciting and challenging degree that will enable you to develop your skills as a writer. The course will nurture your creative talent across a range of different forms - including short stories, screenplays, poetry, drama and novels - and will give you the opportunity to pursue your interests in a number of genres such as the gothic, the thriller/crime, the satiric and the romantic. Alongside the form and genre options, you will take modules in research and archiving, following which you will create a major piece of work which may lead to publication. Throughout your three years you will have regular contact with, and support from, a range of different writers, supported by other internationally renowned poets, playwrights, script writers and novelists. Weekly workshop sessions will be held within which you will be encouraged to discuss your work with your community of fellow writers, and during the course of your studies, you will receive input on how best to prepare your work for the market place. Alongside this one-to-one tuition, you will also take courses on writing for the workplace, including sessions on reviewing, editing and writing to brief.

Typical modules

Research skills
Editing
The Role of the Agent and Publisher
Desktop Publishing
The Internet
Copywriting
Journalism
One-to-one tuition with writers
Poetry
Fiction
Script & Screenwriting
Large Projects

Features

Designed for aspiring writers
Workshops with in-house, internationally recognised writers
Excellent pastoral care
Opportunity to develop large creative projects
Exploration of employment opportunities for the writer
Practice in a wide range of genres including fiction, drama, poetry and journalism
The development of research, editing and archiving skills

Why study at Trinity?

Longstanding relationship with a number of internationally recognised writers
Academic staff with wide ranging experience of teaching Creative Writing
Excellence in the Cultural, Creative and Performing Arts
Regular Study Visits
Parthian Books has a base on campus

Programme Specification

The main educational aims of the programme are:

to promote and develop independent critical and creative engagement with the complexity and sophistication of literary and non-literary texts;
to encourage verbal creativity, critical self-reflection and an awareness of cultural and linguistic production and reception of meaning;
develop a range of subject-specific and transferable skills, including high-order conceptual, analytic, and communication skills of value in graduate employment;
to develop an awareness and appreciation of the cultural importance of English Studies and Creative Writing.

Programme Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

the work of different authors;
the literary history of a number of different periods;
a range of literary and / or non-literary genres;
non-literary texts including film and other media texts;
the range and variety of creative practice;
the textual production, reflection and mediation of cultural change and difference.

Cognitive/Intellectual Skills

skills in critical close reading and textual analysis;
the ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of a range of creative
practice;
the ability to engage critically with various and varying perspectives and evaluate the significance of alternative theoretical positions;
sensitivity to the roles of language and culture in the creation of meaning;
an understanding of the sophistication and complexity of literary and non literary languages;
the ability to plan and execute creative projects.

Practical/Professional Skills

rhetorical skills of effective communication and coherent and sustained argument, including a command of a broad range of vocabulary and critical terminology;
the ability to apply communication skills in a wide range of different contexts;
competence in the acquisition and processing of diverse and complex information for, and into, structured projects;
an awareness of the adaptability and transferability of knowledge, understanding and skills to a range of working environments.

Transferable/Key Skills

the ability to communicate effectively complex information in a variety of different formats;
independent research skills of information retrieval and organization;
information-technology skills, including the use of electronic resources;
effective time-management and organizational skills;
the capacity for independent thought and judgement and ability to challenge received ideas.