BA Art and Creative Writing
Course Overview
This innovative four-year BA Art and Creative Writing joint honours programme is designed for aspiring artists, writers, and cultural thinkers. It provides a unique opportunity to explore the dynamic relationship between visual art and literary practice, enhancing your creative output in both disciplines. You will develop your technical skills and theoretical knowledge within a supportive, workshop-based environment led by renowned practitioners.
Key Program Highlights
- Integrate studio art practice with creative writing workshops to develop a unique, interdisciplinary artistic voice.
- Learn from prize-winning authors and practising artists through small-group seminars and weekly visiting artist talks.
- Gain hands-on publishing experience by contributing to the department’s online creative magazine.
- Access exceptional facilities including studios, darkrooms, and editing suites to experiment across various media.
- Enhance your professional profile through dedicated academic placement opportunities and a term studying abroad.
Course Overview
This innovative four-year BA Art and Creative Writing joint honours programme is designed for aspiring artists, writers, and cultural thinkers. It provides a unique opportunity to explore the dynamic relationship between visual art and literary practice, enhancing your creative output in both disciplines. You will develop your technical skills and theoretical knowledge within a supportive, workshop-based environment led by renowned practitioners.
Key Program Highlights
- Integrate studio art practice with creative writing workshops to develop a unique, interdisciplinary artistic voice.
- Learn from prize-winning authors and practising artists through small-group seminars and weekly visiting artist talks.
- Gain hands-on publishing experience by contributing to the department’s online creative magazine.
- Access exceptional facilities including studios, darkrooms, and editing suites to experiment across various media.
- Enhance your professional profile through dedicated academic placement opportunities and a term studying abroad.
Requirements
Modules
- Art Studio 1
- Drawing
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Poetry in English
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Art Studio 2
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- History of Art 3
- International Study
- Creative Writing: Non-fiction
- Creative Writing: The Short Story
- Early Modern Literature
- Victorian Literature
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Shakespeare
- Art Studio 2b
- Situated Art Practice
- Creative Writing Master Class: Poetry
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Creative Writing Master Class: Prose
- Literature and Mental Health
- Children's Literature
- The Bloody Stage
- Placing Jane Austen
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Shakespeare on Film
- Art Studio 3b
- Dissertation for Art and Creative Writing: Joint Honours Students
