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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Peel Park Campus 1
Full Time
SEP-25
3 Years
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Peel Park Campus 1
Full Time
SEP-25
3 Years
Select a an exam type
Podcaster. Journalist. Novelist. Poet. Screenwriter. Whatever kind of writer you want to be, on this course you’ll gain the tools and training you need to take the first step in your professional writing career.As you progress through your studies, you’ll have the chance to explore writing in a unique range of contexts, from screenwriting to the gaming industry to experimental visual texts and comic books, as well as the core mediums of poetry and the novel. It’s all geared towards your future writing career.As an undergraduate creative writing student studying at Salford, you’ll also have access to the creative writing opportunities Manchester has to offer. You’ll be joining a vibrant community of practising creatives with the chance to flourish in our state-of-the-art campuses in MediaCityUK and Peel Park – both of which designed to nurture talent across the city.
You will- Develop a wide range of skillsets designed to open up a world of creative writing careers- Explore diverse creative writing forms, including experimental writing, playwriting, screenwriting, journalism, poetry and prose fiction- Graduate with a creative writing portfolio that evidences the skills you've learnt to potential employers, or for further study.This course is just one of our English and Creative Writing programmes, which have risen ten places in the 2020 Guardian university league tables, and in 2020 gained 96% student satisfaction, demonstrating our strengths in the areas of research quality and graduate prospects.
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Exam type
A levelA level:
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Scottish Higher:
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UCAS Tariff:
104 - 112 Grades / Points required
Access to HE Diploma:
Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:
30 - 31 Grades / Points required
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017):
Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):
DMM Grades / Points required
104 - 112 UCAS Points. Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential. General studies accepted
104-112 points. Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential.
Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential. General Studies accepted
Pass Level 3 Access to HE Diploma with 104–112 points (English Literature or English Language)
Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.
104-112 points. Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential.
Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential.
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