BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Asks you to become analytical about your writing, both from the point of view of process and output. By critiquing your own work, and considering the writing practice of others, it aims to develop your ability to formulate answers to questions such as 'Why do I write?', 'What is the value of storytelling?', 'What are the stories I am best able to tell?' It is supported by a year-long lecture and workshop series.

Provides an introduction to theories of narrative and a critical application of narrative theory to examples of storytelling in different media and professional contexts. Equips you with the tools, vocabulary and historical perspective required to engage critically with content creation across the spectrum of digital, still and moving image and audio texts.

Examines the ways in which writers work with existing and generated texts - shaping, editing or adapting them into new forms or for different purposes. Explores working with Gen-AI, cross-form adaptation, instructional/technical/educational writing, writing press releases, blurbs and summary documents, and editorial techniques.

Introduces you to core elements of creative writing craft. By situating your creative practice in the heart of the city, it offers the opportunity to engage with London as a 'raw material' and a treasure trove from which you are able to draw characters, stories, tones and textures while ensuring that these are underpinned by an understanding of the critical importance of 'place' in writing.

Introduces you to creative writing genres, styles and forms such as poetry, prose, life-writing, playwriting, screenwriting, lyric writing and flash fiction.

Provides you with an introduction to the relevant theories of interpersonal and intercultural communication. By exploring these theories and linking them to practical everyday situations, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how these apply to your own communicative contexts. Focus will be placed on gaining practical strategies for enhancing your own competences as a communicator.

Investigates how language works in texts, and how texts produce their effects through examination of writers' lexical and grammatical choices. Students analyse how writers' linguistic choices indicate the attitudes of characters and narrators, and represent characters as powerful or passive.

The core value of this module is that of apprenticeship, combining practical skill and critical judgement in the work of progressive re-drafting. There are three strands representing the forms of dramatic writing, poetry and prose fiction and students elect to follow two of the three throughout the year. The module provides an opportunity for the student to work on producing substantial pieces in their chosen forms with guidance and support from the tutor.

Designed to enable you to deepen your understanding of your writing practice as you work through your level 5 studies. The module is supported by the department's year-long lecture and workshop series. You are required to attend a minimum number of these events, responding in a weekly journal to the insights and inspirations offered both here and in your wider degree. You will also undertake an individual research project in which you compare and contrast the creative practice of two writers of

Explores more sophisticated methods of manipulating, adapting and transforming texts across platforms, and for different purposes. In particular it explores interview techniques, both in terms of generating material and its subsequent processing for use in a variety of forms. There will be a focus on the ethical questions raised by such work as well as in fields including ghostwriting and working with Gen-AI.

Examine how those in positions of power use language to create narratives, values and beliefs held by different groups of people in the world. You will explore how language found in the public space reflects values and conventions and how this can change across different societies. The module focuses on the role and purpose of different kinds of social institutions and analyses the means through which they maintain their identity in the international public space.

Introduces you to the skills specific to writing for television and film. It examines contemporary trends in broadcasting and film-making and provides the opportunity for you to develop your own scripts.

An introduction to core journalism skills that you'll use wherever you end up working in the media, but particularly if you build a career as a journalist. It develops the journalistic skills you gain at Level 4 but focuses on research, reporting, writing and storytelling news, in particular. You will learn how to identify and find news stories, how to research and report them, and how to fact-check and verify material.

Begins from the position that issues of social, environmental, and resource equity cannot be separated from digital culture and the politics of big data. The module introduces you to the link between data and social and environmental issues through exploration of how data is gathered, analysed, presented, and stored. You'll acquire basic practical skills in these areas while also engaging with critical perspectives.

An opportunity for you to embark on a substantial piece of work in a writing genre of your choice. The module is supported by the department's year-long course of talks and workshops delivered by members of staff and outside practitioners. You are required to attend a minimum number of these events - which will include sessions on making a career as a writer - and comment on them analytically in the writer's journal.

Offers the opportunity to carry out an independent project in a chosen area of professional writing. It facilitates the production of a non-fiction piece of work of extended length and develops a reflexive critical understanding of personal practice in a professional context. Students will pursue a topic of their choice with individual supervision from a tutor.

Enables you to become directly responsible for publishing a collection of work, producing an event, or curating an exhibition. Each year a specific project is chosen and students will work in dedicated teams to cover all aspects of the production process, including for example: content creation, marketing and communications, promotion, planning, reflection, legacy.

Examines contemporary and traditional theory concerning life writing, while introducing students to the skills needed to explore forms such as narrative non-fiction, autobiography, biography, memoir, auto-fiction. The demands of print and on-line platforms will both be addressed.

Explore a range of contemporary socio-cultural issues through readings by key theorists and commentators. Indicative topics include mass culture, privilege and inter