SINGLE/COMBINED HONOURS
UCAS codes: W800 BA/CW
Typical offer: 300-340 points
International Baccalaureate: 26 points
Degree duration:
3 years full-time 6 years part-time
If English is not your first language:
IELTS 6.0 (including 6.0 in writing) or a TOEFL iBT score of 87 or equivalent
Selection process: Applicants may be required to submit a portfolio
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Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 827234
Email: course.enquiries@winchester.ac.uk
For Combined Honours UCAS codes and entry requirements
The programme seeks to move students progressively through a structured series of writing assignments and exercises, working on all genres of writing. It aims to develop the student’s own work by giving them positive critical encouragement and direction. This is enhanced by a workshop environment which helps students form a critical understanding of their own writing and the writing of others. Guidance is given on audience (for example editor, agent or publisher) where appropriate. Students are helped to locate their own
writing within various contexts, including those of current academic debates.
Year 1 provides the basis of study for the programme at subsequent levels, with introductory modules in each of the four main genres of creative writing. In Year 2, the focus becomes more specific, with modules that look at elements of different genres, such as writing for children, media writing, poetry, song and play, film and TV script. In Year 3, the modules look increasingly at the relationships between writing and the world beyond the university, looking at publishers in Advanced Fictional Writing and Creative Non-fiction for children, producers in Scriptwriting and Script development, and community audiences in Writing for Display and Creative Visions.
Year 1
• Fictional Writing
• Poetry and Poetic Expression
• Scriptwriting
• Creative Non-fiction
Year 2
• Fiction for Children
• Media Writing
• Writing Poetry
• Scriptwriting for Mainstream Television
Year 3
• Advanced Fictional Writing
• Writing for Display
• Scriptwriting: Innovation within Popular Forms
• Writing Comic Books and Graphic Novels
After graduating, students may become professional writers, follow careers in publishing, advertising, marketing, teaching or other professions that require advanced communication skills or they might simply write with increased confidence, pleasure and success.