BA Hons Creative Writing degree

The main educational aims of the BA (Hons) Creative Writing are to:

1. Widen access to education in creative writing at undergraduate level through Open and Flexible Learning.
2. Ensure you gain an experience of writing in a variety of literary forms and genres as a craft and as a tool for exploring our environment and experience.
3. Provide an intellectually stimulating programme of study based on high quality study material delivered by experienced academics and practitioners.
4. Develop your creative capacities and your ability in interpretation and application.
5. Develop your critical understanding of the theoretical and conceptual issues central to the practice of writing and the social, historical and cultural context in which it is practised.
6. Provide an environment in which the student has the possibility of changing your view of the world and your interaction with it both visually and intellectually.
7. Develop effective writing practitioners who display self-awareness, analytical and communicative skills, and a degree of reflection.

Qualifications, credits and OCA courses

The table below illustrates the general structure of an OCA degree. For the specific Creative Writing degree pathway, please download the following document: Creative Writing degree pathway.pdf

Qualification	Credits	Required OCA Courses
Certificate in Higher Education	120 credits at Level 1 (HE 4)	3 Level 1 (HE 4) courses
Diploma in Higher Education	120 credits at Level 1 (HE 4) 120 credits at Level 2 (HE 5)	3 Level 1 (HE 4) courses 2 Level 2 (HE 5) courses
BA Hons in Creative Arts	120 credits at Level 1 (HE 4) 120 credits at Level 2 (HE 5) 120 credits at Level 3 (HE 6)	3 Level 1 (HE 4) courses 2 Level 2 (HE 5) courses 2 Level 3 (HE 6) courses

For full infomation on the BA Hons Creative Writing degree with OCA, please download and read the following PDF document: Creative Writing degree booklet.pdf