Modules for course W890 | BA/CPW
BA Creative&Professional Writing
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2020–21 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2021–22; 2022–23.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- QXP-1001: Creative Writing: Prose (20)
- QXP-1003: Creative Writing: Poetry (20)
- QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20)
Semester 2
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- UXS-1001: Intro to Practical Journalism (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-1001: Cyfl. i Newyddiaduraeth Ymarf. (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-1016: Children's Fiction (Creative) (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1024: Introduction to Screenwriting (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1038: Intro' to Media Practice (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-1038: Cyf. i Ymarfer y Cyfryngau (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Optional Modules
40 to 80 credits from:
- QXP-2001: C/Writing: Poetry & Short Fict (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2004: Creative Writing: The Novel (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2005: Transformative Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-2009: Creative Non-Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) or
QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
40 to 80 credits from:
- UXS-2033: Practical Digital Journalism (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-2033: Newyddiaduraeth Ddigidol Ymarf (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-2222: Screenwriting:Theory&Practice (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2800: Game Design Level & Mechanics (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2801: Game Development (20) (Semester 2)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
40 credits from:
- QXP-3099: Creative Writing Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3900: Research Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3902: Enterprise Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
Optional Modules
80 credits from:
- QXP-3008: Cross-Cultural Writing (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3012: Writing and Environments (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXP-3025: Fantastic Fictions (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3033: Practical Digital Journalism (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-3033: Newyddiaduraeth Ddigidol Ymarf (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXP-3093: Experimental Writing (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3114: Dystopian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3222: Screenwriting:Theory&Practice (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3800: Game Design 3 (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3801: Game Production (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS3800 may only be taken with UXS3801