BA (Hons) Creative and Prof Writing with Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at Wolverhampton

Module designed as a plenary for your first year's study, allowing you to reflect on what you've learned so far and to explore what direction your writing might go in the future. Explores the imaginative benefits of engaging with region, landscape and locality in creative work. Covers key theories in place-making such as Environmental Psychology and Psychogeography. You will discover other aspects of the professional writing career such as having a writing routine, dealing with rejection, creati

Study of the personal essay, memoir and confessional verse across a range of cultures and periods, examining its diversity, its formal properties and its social and personal value as witness to self and culture. Builds on Craft of Writing to offer a wide array of techniques and approaches to writing about the self and considering subjecthood in a diverse range of mediums. Uses theories in personality development, psychoanalysis memory studies and identity to cultivate a deep understanding of sel

About developing your lens and understanding of the rapidly changing world, refining your specialism as a professional or practitioner and improving your professional facing profile. Delivered across specific course groupings that capture the academic standards, core values and employment opportunities of your subject area. Draws on the well-evidenced benefits of community-facing service learning to the local community, the local economy and you, the student. You will undertake at least one exte

Explores what a poem is and what goes into a poem. Considers how to use and reuse poetry for different aims and agendas and how to use poetry in different mediums, such as film, animation, performance, advertising, recording technology, virtual spaces. Considers the constantly changing landscape in poetry in light of digital and multimedia cultures. Focuses on exploring and experimenting with new and radical ways of exploring poetic practice. Students study Ekphrastic Poetry, Projective Verse, C

Explore contemporary genre fiction – its conventions and its historical shifts – as a writer of text, radio, podcast and screen. Integrates the critical reading of Crime, Horror and Speculative Fiction with the student's own choice of writing assignment. Examines theories of representation in various forms and cultures and considers past and contemporary markets, publication outlets and trends for different genre fiction texts. Pays especial attention to ways in which the popular fiction genres

A creative exploration of the cutting-edge practices of Geopoetics - The Expression of the Earth. Develops your awareness of geological, ecological and geographical debates and concerns and considers how the Earth Sciences can be used in conjunction with literature. You will be encouraged to offer your own creative voices to the existing poetic conversations about nature, climate and the living world. Students are introduced to concepts and theories in the Earth Sciences and Geo-Humanities and b

Enables you to work independently in an area of your choice and under the supervision of an appropriate member of staff. Allows you an opportunity to pursue an interest in a given subject / issue related to your degree and to produce extended creative and critical work to a greater depth and breadth than before. Provides the chance to display the skills in organisation and research methods you've acquired in previous modules. Students may consider mixed media, digital and experimental forms for

A plenary final year module that helps you take stock of things you've learned and developed during your degree, and plan for success in your future. Explores the various futures of writing involving a number of emerging practices. Discusses how good writers and editors can put their skills to use in a myriad of professional careers, including content writing and editing, book and magazine publishing, corporate communication, web content development, arts promotion, advocacy, and many others. Yo

Aims to provide for the initiation of an in-depth individual writing project focussing specifically on the production of a first novel. Addresses some of the issues involved in researching and developing an extended narrative. Students will create the opening of an original novel together with a synopsis of the complete story and an account of how the project might be marketed once complete. Combines classroom-based teaching, independent study, and tutor supervision to help students create the k