BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing with Foundation Year in Arts and Communication Bachelor's degree at Leeds Trinity University

Core academic skills such as using electronic resources, planning and note-taking, communication skills related to essay and report writing and delivering presentations. Time management, prioritisation, stress management, and confident engagement with collaborative learning, debates, discussions and critical reflection.

Study areas of interest related to your chosen future academic specialisation in this highly personalised module. Explore how you will be assessed and the form your project could take, which could be a written report, a presentation, a film or a series of blog posts. Support through personal tutoring and learning hub liaison. Explore careers and employability pathways in the arts.

Assessment: 12 hours of workshop tuition; peer assessment of ideas

Theory and practice of film, television, journalism, radio and the web through lectures, workshops and practical exercises. Practical guidance on finding the 'hook' and grabbing an audience's attention. Develop understanding of narrative structure, character development and how to generate ideas.

Explore historical approaches towards images and the social power they embody. From religious icons to celebrity glamour and fine art to selfies, develop understanding of what humans do with images to shape attitudes and beliefs. Undertake an individual or group project to produce work that reflects the culture of 'image'.

Audit and reflect on employability skills and career plans. Reflect on how academic skills apply to employability. Work placement or Professional Challenge Project. First semester: closely, critically and analytically read short stories from different eras and cultural settings. Second semester: focus on poems representing early modern, romantic and modernist forms and periods.

Express thoughts and opinions in prose writing, before moving onto poetry. Develop into skilled manipulators of style, voice, structure, editing and presentation. Focus on the transferable nature of writing practices between different types of writing.

Study political speeches and debates in multimedia format. Focus on the power of words to persuade and influence. Introduction to rhetoric through classical material and recent theory. Construct and perform speeches in debates on seminal cultural topics. Skills in speaking, articulating arguments, and making a case.

Develop awareness of genre and analyse contemporary fiction in terms of particular genres and their historical development. Develop confidence in reading and engaging with pre-1900 writing. Study two or more core texts from contemporary and pre-1900 periods in each genre.

Study literary theories addressing issues of empowerment, such as feminism, masculinities, postcolonialism and intersectionality, and apply these to a range of texts. Apply and develop employability skills through a presentation and career-development portfolio. Workshops to prepare for work placement, usually six weeks in total.

Explore 'writing the self', producing a portfolio of original autobiographical writing. Bring perspectives to writing about the lives of others, producing a biographical narrative on a subject of choosing. Reflect the make-up of the class as all students bring their racial, cultural and other life perspectives to weekly group discussions.

Study, discuss and respond creatively to a range of poetry and prose dealing with myth, childhood, love and loss. Myth element draws on Greek and Roman mythology and that of other cultures. Childhood, love and loss draw on contemporary and non-contemporary literature. Produce original writing and a reflective commentary.

Become familiar with key theories and approaches in the study of language, gender and sexuality. Develop a critical mindset allowing evaluation of conflicting theories. Look at ways this field of study is applied in areas such as education and media. Work closely with authentic linguistic data.

Read texts within context through study of four periods. Examine literary works in relation to socio-cultural and political debates. Read texts such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight, works by Webster and Shakespeare, Victorian texts by Dickens, Collins, Gaskill and Conan Doyle, and postcolonial texts such as Wide Sargasso Sea.

Work with other students and your tutor to produce a writing project, bringing together work from other modules. Could be prose fiction, poetry, drama, a short film, an article or a blog post. Assessed presentation and one-to-one meetings. Write a formal reflective commentary on the process of formulating, drafting and completing the work.

Assessment: assessed presentation

Combine creative writing, critical reading, and historical and theoretical components to develop experimental writing. Write using a range of procedures and strategies, looking at innovations in prose and poetry. Explore techniques such as chance and substitution, and fractured narrative and time structures.

Study modernist and postmodernist literature from the early 20th century to the early 21st century. Examine the modernist preoccupation with 'newness' and development of literary forms that break with earlier artistic conventions. Study themes including war, 'stream-of-consciousness' writing, modernism and race, postmodern indeterminacy, narrative unreliability.

Develop employability skills and experience by undertaking work-based learning in final year. Opportunity to spend time working with an employer, focusing on a specific project and reflect on what has been learnt from the experience.