Creative Writing

What you'll learn

  • Identify, explain and apply the key disciplinary concepts in Creative Writing
  • Integrate theory and creative practice; conceive, develop and evaluate innovative new writing
  • Access and evaluate the sources, authority and relevance of information and synthesise key facts, themes and ideas in writing
  • Communicate ideas to a range of audiences and in a variety of media and genres
  • Use technologies to access resources, communicate effectively and develop writing and research skills
  • Use disciplinary skills and knowledge to learn how to learn, and apply these insights to new writing and to the different intellectual and professional roles required of a writer in the broader community
  • Acknowledge the interrelationship between local, national and global perspectives and the impact of this on writing and the creative industries
  • Value a range of cultural knowledge and take care to represent these, where appropriate, in an ethical and professional manner
  • Work independently and/or collaboratively to produce innovative and informed creative writing that contributes meaningfully to contemporary culture