BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Drama Bachelor's degree at De Montfort University

Explore a wide range of short-form writing, including international strict form poetry (sonnet, rondeau, terza rima, ghazal, villanelle, sestina), free verse, flash fiction, and historical flash fiction. Covers ethical questions about combining fact and fiction, review writing in real-world contexts, and digital short-form writing on social media platforms.

Assessment: Collaborative Writing (20%) and Short Form Portfolio (80%)

Post-disciplinary approach using techniques from diverse areas to address questions related to journeys and places. Themes include journeys, spaces, welcome, (im)mobilities, representation and imaginative geographies, gender and placemaking, belonging and place attachment, and sustainability and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Assessment: Subject-specific Coursework 1 (30%) and Coursework 2 (70%)

Develop performance skills relevant to chosen theatrical texts through analysing linguistic and narrative structures of plays. Explore critical and technical perspectives through practical workshops.

Assessment: Solo Performance or Presentation (60%) and Essay (40%)

Year-long module developing your writing practice, focusing on your existing creative projects. Plan, research, and develop projects effectively. Key activities include workshopping, character development, and place writing techniques.

Assessment: Feedback Report (20%) and Creative Work & Reflective Commentary (80%)

Develop your skills in theatre and performance making, exploring approaches like directing and physical theatre. Critical analysis of performance texts and independent research are key components.

Assessment: Performance (70%) and Reflective Viva or Essay (30%)

Designed to prepare and support you towards post-degree pathways. Focus on specific skills, capabilities and knowledge needed to adapt and flourish in professional environments. Emphasis on core attributes, competencies and transferable skills. Introduction to UN Sustainable Development Goals and engagement with themes including race, gender, identity, and geopolitical issues. Subject-specific workshops on writing and publishing worlds.

Assessment: Written Portfolio or Recorded Presentation (100%)

Focus on story in the broadest sense - relevant to poetry, hypertext, and scripted work. Main themes include narrative arcs and structures, characterisation, pace, event, story-world, dialogue, clue-laying, revelation and concealment. Covers storytelling and prose, narrative structure, and how writers compel engagement. May include writing for stage and screen, TV and film with particular focus on structure and narrative.

Assessment: Story Craft Proposal (40%) and Story Craft Creative Work (60%)

Work as part of a theatre company to stage a performance. The process involves realising a production, from initial research to final performance. Gain valuable experience in ensemble work, performance skills, and the technical and creative demands of theatre.

Assessment: Creative Project (70%) and Reflective Viva (30%)

Writing for screens and with screens. Develop skills in writing for a range of screen genres and platforms with a focus on optimising your writing practice in the 21st century writing and publishing context. Screen genres may include podcast, poetry films, TV and/or film scripts, web novels, flash fiction forms attached to different social media platforms, and games. Includes collaborative work that replicates real-world writing contexts.

Assessment: Screentime Reflection (30%) and Screentime Project (70%)

Provides a range of appropriate professional skills and knowledge of the writing industry in its global context. Encompasses enterprise and entrepreneurship education. Topics may include international publishing trends, copyright, digital marketing, selling of translation rights, developments in e-publishing, print-on-demand, and self-publishing. May include contributions from industry professionals.

Assessment: Marketing Plan (30%) and Publication Project (70%)

Explores cabaret performance from a practical perspective, examining how theatre can address politics and emancipate communities. Engage with political activism through performance, using intersectional perspectives, race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability, to create work beyond entertainment.

Assessment: Performance (60%) and Essay/Presentation (40%)

Opportunity to perform in an off-campus venue following a successful audition. Work with a professional director to prepare, rehearse, and perform in a public production. Requires evening commitments during production week and focuses on developing professional working skills. If audition unsuccessful, you will need to select an alternative module.

Assessment: Performance (80%) and Reflective Portfolio (20%)

Explore experimental performance practices, including body art, living sculptures, and autobiographical performance. Work with partners and collaborators, engaging with critical concepts and ethical debates surrounding these art forms.

Assessment: Performance (70%) and Viva (30%)

Focuses on decisions made when staging plays, exploring staging choices and their relationship to critical perspectives. Analyse theatrical performances using evidence like digital materials, interviews, and prompt books.

Assessment: Presentation (40%) and Creative Portfolio (60%)

Explores performing arts education policy, pedagogy, and curriculum design, with a focus on contemporary performance pedagogy. Examine the role of performing arts in the evolving English education system and apply creative methodologies to your project work.

Assessment: Practical 1 and 2, Creative Pitches (50% each)

Encourages you to rethink the premise of 'Creative Writing' as self-expression. Heightens attention to language that surrounds you in everyday life and involves element of self-transformation. Explores alternative, playful history of 'Uncreative Writing' that challenges ideas about originality and unique voice. Celebrates materiality of language, chance procedures, collage, conceptual writing, found and appropriated texts, and experiments with artificial constraints. Multi-disciplinary approach