Creative Studies and English Language degree (BA)

• 260-300 points

Please also read our Entry Requirements section.

For joint honours degrees you should also look at the entry requirements for your other chosen subject.

• The School of Linguistics and English Language at Bangor is renowned as both a research and teaching School. It was one of the first established in the UK, and has a distinguished tradition in the field of Linguistics.
• The University has a dedicated School of Creative Studies and Media building situated overlooking the beautiful Menai Strait and housing its own digital cinema, performance space, creative writing and journalism room and WIFI meeting area. It is also the home of a number of national and international research, development and outreach programmes in the creative studies subjects. The University has a fully equipped media and performance centre, with editing suites, new media suites, a dedicated creative writing and journalism room, production studios and media equipment available to students.
• Bangor has been the location of a number of festivals, is a regular site for visiting creative writers, musicians, film- and media-makers and dramatists, and encourages students to engage widely with such areas as new media, journalism and cross-arts activity.
• We are committed to teaching in small groups and the majority of our modules are delivered through weekly workshops or seminars.
• This course is strengthened by Bangor's close links with many outside bodies, including the international creative writing, film and drama communities, in the USA, Australasia and Europe, and those working in the field of English Language. Staff are practising professionals, who work on joint projects and act as advisers to research councils, arts councils and other bodies.
• Sponsorship and scholarship opportunities are available on a competitive basis.
• Final-year projects are often carried out in collaboration with a company and could include working in a team with students from creative arts degree courses.

This section provides an outline of the content of this Creative Studies and English Language BA (Joint Hons) course. Each year you'll study a series of modules, some of these are compulsory and others can be selected from a range of optional modules.

A total of 120 credits must be taken in each year. Modules to choose from can include:

Creative Studies

Year 1

60 credits from:

• The Arts of Writing (20)
• Creative Writing: Forms and Techniques (20)
• Introduction to Film History (20)
• The Language of Film (20)
• Introduction to Textual Analysis (20)
• Introduction to Theatre Studies (20)
• Modern Theatre (20)
• IT for Creative Industries (20)
• Introduction to Journalism (20)
• Television and Radio Studies (20)
• Introduction to Media Production (20)
• Media and Popular Music Culture (10)
• Games, Disks and the Web (20)
• My Creative Project (20) (core)
• Saints, Geniuses, Stars (20)
• Creating Fiction (20)
• Animation from Mickey to Manga (20)
• Women on Film (20)
• Poetry and Performance (20)

Year 2

60 credits from:

• Film Theory/Film Culture (20)
• Creative Writing: Showing and Telling (20)
• Creative Writing: The Novel (20)
• Writing for Film and the Media (20)
• Standard Media Production (20)
• Development of Journalism (20)
• Essentials of Multimedia (20)
• Scripts for Theatre and Television (20)
• Development and Censorship of Television (20)
• Directing Theatre (20)
• Styles of Theatre (20)
• Marketing Creativity (20)
• Documentary and Drama (20)
• British Publishing Uncovered (20)
• Developing Multimedia (20)
• Writing for Children (20)
• Creative Project 2 (20)

Year 3

60 credits from:

• Marketing Creative Writing (20)
• Advanced Practical Journalism (20)
• Creative Project 3 (20)
• Writing Hypertext (20)
• Advanced Media Production (20)
• The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (20)
• Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20)
• Creative Writing and Production 2 (20)
• Creative Writing Dissertation (40)
• PR and Visual Journalism (20)
• Scripts for Theatre and Television (20)
• Development and Censorship of Television (20)
• Directing Theatre (20)
• Styles of Theatre (20)
• British Cinema (20)
• America on Film (20)
• Celtic Film (20)

English Language

Year 1

Core:

• Tools for Language Analysis I (20)
• English in Society (20)
• Tools for Language Analysis II (20)

Year 2

60 credits chosen from:

• Sentence Structure: Syntax (20)
• Variation in English (20)
• Meaning (20)
• Research Methods and Design (20)

Year 3

60 credits chosen from:

• Speech and Language Disorders (20)
• Child Language Acquisition (20)
• History of English (20)
• Language and Gender (20)
• Teaching EFL (20)
• Interactional Pragmatics (20)
• Applied Linguistics TEFL (20)
• Sociolinguistics (20)
• Bilingualism (20)
• Forensic Linguistics (20)
• Discourse Analysis (20)
• English and Globalisation (20)

Modules our students are currently studying...

If you'd like a closer look at the content of the modules our current students are studying this year please click on the links below;

Creative Stds & English Lang. degree (BA/CSTEL)

• Year 1 modules
• Year 2 modules
• Year 3 modules

* Please note that due to the dynamic nature of our degree programmes specific topics of study/modules are occasionally subject to change.

For more on studying degree courses see our Study at Bangor section.

English Language and Creative Studies offers a balance of practical and critical tasks, introducing students to creative practice studies and the critical study of creative practices in combination with a study of English Language. In Creative Studies you will explore a variety of creative forms, specialising increasingly as you progress through the degree in that form you find most interesting and rewarding (e.g. film, creative writing, theatre and drama, media or new media, journalism). In English Language modules range from speech and language acquisition, to forensic linguistics and bilingualism to discussions of globalisation and the English Language. Much of your study will be done in small group teaching.

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