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University of Worcester

UCAS Code: WW82 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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**Overview**

Studying a joint honours degree in Creative Writing and Illustration combines two highly complementary disciplines that span creativity across both written and visual forms. You’ll develop your artistic and writing abilities, allowing you to produce work that showcases your development in both areas of study.

The course provides theoretical and practical training in the form of lectures, seminars, and workshops to support your growth as a writer and artist, led by staff with years of professional experience. Students graduate with a portfolio of work that will demonstrate skills desired by a wide range of job roles.

**Key features**

- An exciting programme of guest speakers for both areas, including Olivier Kugler, Isabel Greenberg, Jonny Hannah, Katerina Manolessou, Ben Newman, Jane Ray, Nobrow, and Flying Eye Books.

- Introduction to exhibition practice through illustration fairs, card sales and exhibitions in the final year graduation show.

- Opportunity to travel to destinations in mainland Europe and to showcase your work in London.

- Excellent work placement opportunities, including through Writing West Midlands and Ledbury Poetry Festival.

**Learn more about the course at our Open Days**

Visiting us is the best way to get a feel for student life at the University of Worcester. You'll find out more about the course, and have the opportunity speak to staff, students and recent graduates about what it’s really like to study at Worcester.

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**Why the University of Worcester?**

The University of Worcester is a close-knit and high-achieving community where students are supported to succeed at every level.

The University is a truly inclusive place where every person counts as an individual. From designing imaginative facilities to providing practical support and tailored learning, we strive to help people of all backgrounds and abilities to achieve their own rich potential. We work hard to break down barriers and provide opportunities for all.

**Recent University of Worcester achievements**

- The University of Worcester has been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Quality Education in the Times Higher Education’s University Impact Rankings every year since its inception in 2019. The University has also been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Gender Equality in all years of the rankings and currently holds the number one spot (2023).

- Worcester rose to become the number one English university (excluding specialist institutions) for sustained employment, further study, or both, three and five years after graduation in the 2022 Government-published Longitudinal Educational Outcomes survey, having been in the top 10 in 2020 and 2021. 96% of our graduates are in work or further study 15 months after graduating (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022)

- Worcester is a leader in sustainability and has been awarded First Class Honours in the People and Planet Green League each and every year since 2009. In 2019, the University was named Sustainability Institution of the Year in the Green Gown Awards and was Highly Commended in the global awards at the UN.

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Creative Writing BA (Hons)

School Of Humanities

3 years full time

• Writing Fiction
• Writing Poetry
• Writers Toolkit
• Introduction to Writing

Creative Writing and English Literature BA (Hons)

• Literary Forms and Genres
• Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing

Creative Writing and Illustration BA (Hons)

• Drawing for Animators and Illustrators
• Image and Text

Creative Writing and Screenwriting BA (Hons)

• Scriptwriting: Ideas and Development
• Story Design and Analysis

Creative Writing and English Language BA (Hons)

• Approaches to English Language Studies: Critical and Theoretical Matters
• Writer as Researcher

Creative Writing and History BA (Hons)

• How to do History

Animation and Screenwriting BA (Hons)

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• Concept Art Practices
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Filmmaking and Screenwriting BA (Hons)

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Screenwriting and Theatre, Acting & Performance BA (Hons)

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Journalism and Screenwriting BA (Hons)

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Creative Writing

At the university of worcester.

We are a team of academics who are passionate about writing in all its forms and aim to develop your writing practice to enable you to produce publishable pieces of work and embed the necessary skills needed for a career as a professional writer. We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Worcester Creative Writing course.

Dr Jack McGowan

Course Leader

Dr Jack McGowan is a writer and performance poet with over ten years of experience in the UK spoken word scene. His research includes contemporary performance poetics, writing for interactive media, and creative non-fiction. His poetry has been published in a range of online and print journals and magazines and he has performed his work at major festivals across the country.

Email me: [email protected]

Dr Ruth Stacey

Admissions Tutor

Poet, prose and memoir writer with two published collections and five pamphlets, including the award-winning poetry collaboration with Katy Wareham Morris: Inheritance. Her next book about the tarot artist Pamela Colman Smith will be published in October 2024. Her research specialisms include imagined memoir, symbolist poetics, historical fiction and fantasy fiction. Stacey brings experience from previous roles as a copywriter, workshop facilitator, freelance writer, and illustrator.

Email me: [email protected]

Dr Charley Barnes

Charley Barnes is a writer and poet, with a specialism in crime fiction and psychological thrillers. To date, she has published thirteen novels – including two romantic comedies. Her next novel, a new thriller, is forthcoming with Bloodhound Books in November 2024. Charley’s research specialism beyond creative writing sees her investigate true crime literature, the concept of truth, and the changing delineation between fact and fiction.

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Develop skills that will give you an advantage in virtually any career

The Writing Minor will give you a strong understanding of the principles and practices of effective writing and practice in a variety of writing styles. With five electives, you can focus your study on fiction, journalism, technical writing, poetry, and more.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Develop a solid understanding of the principles and practices of effective writing
• Apply critical and analytical thinking to explore issues across the discipline of writing
• Learn to share information through a variety of methods, technology, platforms, and channels
• Discover the relevance of writing with the emergence of digital media
• Develop skills and a professional portfolio of creative works

Meet Your Faculty

Donald Vescio

My research program integrates a comprehensive background in computer and data technologies with a strong academic interest in critical theory and information design. My research primarily investigates the following areas: [...]

Elizabeth Bidinger

Elizabeth Bidinger teaches a variety of creative writing and literature courses, and she specializes in the study and practice of memoir writing. She has published memoir essays as well as scholarly articles on memoir as a literary genre. Her book, [...]

Heather Macpherson

As a practitioner of the essay and poem, my scholarly interests continue to reside in the history of the essay through its contemporary poeticized and experimental forms. Currently, my research is focusing on the bifurcation of metaphor. In addition, [...]

Riley McGuire

Riley McGuire is an Assistant Professor of English at Worcester State University where he specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, queer theory, and disability studies. Prior to joining the faculty at WSU, he completed his Ph.D. in [...]

Jacqueline Morrill

Jacqueline Morrill is an English alum of WSU with a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry has been published in a variety of print and online journals such as The Worcester Review, Best Indie Lit New England and [...]

Christina Santana

Christina Santana is an Associate Professor English at Worcester State University. She earned her doctorate at Arizona State University in 2016, specializing community writing, rhetorics, and literacies. Her professional life has included time spent [...]

Jamie Remillard

As an assistant professor of English, Jamie Remillard teaches courses in technical writing, science and environmental communication, creative nonfiction, and medical and health journalism. Her recent projects include field-based research to examine [...]

Hardeep Sidhu

Hardeep Sidhu is an assistant professor of English at Worcester State University, where he teaches courses on U.S. literature, race, immigration, comics, the novel, and college writing. Recent courses include "Race in Comics," "Narratives of U.S. [...]

MaryLynn Saul

MaryLynn Saul is a professor of English and specializes in medieval literature, particularly Arthurian literature, as well as human rights, history of the English language, and feminist theory. She has published articles on courtly love and marriage [...]

Karen Woods Weierman

Dr. Karen Woods Weierman is Professor of English at Worcester State University, where she teaches U.S. literatures and first-year writing. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of [...]

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Creative Writing and History BA (Hons)

What makes creative writing and history at worcester special.

Combining Creative Writing and History provides an opportunity to explore the past across multiple periods and develop critical thinking skills that will improve your critiquing of your own writing. You’ll learn through the academic investigation of the processes by which we understand historical events, and a practice-based enquiry into writing.

The joint honours course uses lectures, seminars, and workshops to help you deepen your understanding of the past and establish your own identity as a writer. Students graduate with transferrable skills and a portfolio of written work that supports employment across a range of industries.

Key features

• Opportunities for students to publish their work from the very first week and throughout their undergraduate programme
• Exciting programme of guest speakers and a student writing magazine: The Fuse
• Experience in writing for a range of digital, print, audio, visual and performance platforms.
• Work placement opportunities in archives, museums and community groups
• Delivered by highly experienced, supportive and expert lecturers with international research profiles
• Tailor your course to your individual needs with a joint honours degree

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Apply to start this September. Find out about our accommodation guarantee and how to apply by visiting our Clearing webpages or calling 01905 855111 .

Entry requirements

104 UCAS Tariff points.

The normal minimum entry requirement for undergraduate degree courses is the possession of 4 GCSEs (Grade C/4 or above) and a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent Level 3 qualifications).

Other information

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please contact the Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email  [email protected]  for advice.

Further information about the UCAS Tariff can be obtained from the UCAS website .

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Course content

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the discipline and feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do therefore change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practice. The most up-to-date information will be available to you once you have accepted a place and registered for the course. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative. 

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Discover our full range of joint degrees and read about how your degree will be structured.

History and the City of Worcester

The city of Worcester resounds with history and provides an ideal environment for the study of the past. 

It is best known perhaps for its central role in the English Civil War. Worcester was the scene of its final battle when Oliver Cromwell defeated a Scottish army led by Charles II.  

The city also boasts one of the finest cathedrals in the country. King John, famous for agreeing to the Magna Carta, is buried there. During your time at the University you will be able to visit the cathedral library with its priceless collection of rare books and manuscripts, including letters signed by Charles I.

The city contains beautiful historic streets and many buildings dating from the seventeenth century.

Teaching and assessment

For more information about teaching, learning and assessment on this course, please see the single honours course pages for  Creative Writing BA (Hons)  and  History BA (Hons) .

Programme specification

For comprehensive details on the aims and intended learning outcomes of the course, and the means by which these are achieved through learning, teaching and assessment, please download the latest Creative Writing programme specification and History programme specification documents.

Great lecturers who care and want to help as much as they can to help me achieve the best possible grades. BA History student

Creative Writing aims to nurture your confidence as a writer and to support your development as a critical and skilful analyst of your own and others’ writing. Throughout, you will be immersed in intellectual issues informing the discipline and practices of writing and learn to place your own writing within contexts of published work.

You will develop expertise in commercial practice (writing for magazines, reviewing, scriptwriting, editing) and understanding of publishing and marketing processes alongside working towards your own, creative development. You will work with published writers, professional publishers and editors with a variety of specialisms including poetry, travel writing, writing for the screen, writing fiction, writing for performance, writing for children, feature writing, blogging and copy writing.

Your development and achievements will be assessed by means of a wide variety of writing ‘tasks.’ In your third year, you will undertake a major writing project of your choice, mentored by members of the course team, alongside participating in a range of activity designed to support you to prepare for progression once you have graduated.

History at Worcester is designed to enable you to study the types of history that appeal to you most. Informed by cutting-edge research on key questions of our time, it offers you the opportunity to study the political, cultural and social history of Britain, Europe and the wider world from the 16th to 20th centuries.

The course begins with a broad introduction to many of today’s debates surrounding history and approaches to historical study. It ends with the opportunity for you to produce a major piece of work on a topic of your choice, supported by one-to-one supervision.

History provides you with opportunities to benefit directly from your lecturers’ cutting-edge research and research interests – which include, amongst many others, the Devil in Tudor and Stuart England, US propaganda in the Second World War, appeasement, the transatlantic slave trade and the home front in World Wars 1 and 2.

Both subject areas are committed to supporting your understanding of the range of possibilities that could be available to you on graduation. You can undertake work placements as part of your formal study and explore opportunities for postgraduate study. There are sometimes ‘earn as you learn’ opportunities to work with staff, and courses regularly advertise volunteering opportunities to work with local organisations.

You can also investigate, with those who are already following them, career paths in:

• the creative and cultural industries
• marketing and PR
• and the many other employment sectors and fields in which history and writing graduates find work

Meet the team

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course.

Dr Jack McGowan

Jack’s research focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, and he specializes in the development of performance poetry in the UK since the mid-20th century, and the oral roots of poetry.

Jack is a performance poet with 10 years of experience on the UK spoken word scene and he writes for both performance and page publication.

Dr Ruth Stacey

Dr Ruth Stacey is an expert in poetry, historical fiction, fantasy fiction, and memoir. Her research is focused on the use of symbolist poetics to write imagined memoir of historical subjects.

An award-winning poet, with a background in copywriting and illustration, her teaching covers a wide range of subjects including genre fiction, creative nonfiction, contemporary poetry, professional practice, and writing for children.

Professor Darren Oldridge

Darren Oldridge is a specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history. His interests include witchcraft and the Devil, the supernatural, and the religious context of the English Civil Wars. A recurring theme of his work is the rationality underpinning apparently strange beliefs: this is reflected, most recently, in the new edition of Strange Histories (Routledge: 2017). More broadly, he is interested in the relationship between poetry and film and the past.

Professor Suzanne Schwarz

Suzanne Schwarz’s teaching at the University of Worcester focuses on the transatlantic slave trade and West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She also focuses on developing historical research skills for students through the study of regional and local history. She was the recipient of two student-led teaching awards in 2013 and 2014.

Professor Neil Fleming

Neil Fleming's research and teaching focusses on aspects of British, Irish and imperial history since the late nineteenth century.

Dr Wendy Toon

Wendy Toon is an historian of the United States of America, specialising in the twentieth century. She is currently writing Images of the Enemy: American Constructions of the Germans and Japanese in World War Two (Routledge, forthcoming 2020).

Wendy joined the University of Worcester in September 2002. She previously held positions at Staffordshire University and Keele University, and was a Royal Historical Society Fellow (Peter Marshall Fellowship) at the Institute of Historical Research.  

Dr Paddy McNally

Paddy McNally's teaching and research interests are focused on Irish history from 1690 until 1848, German history from 1870 to 1945, and the history of political thought. He is author of the book, Parties, Patriots and Undertakers . Parliamentary politics in early Hanoverian Ireland and numerous articles on eighteenth-century Irish history. He is currently writing From the Boyne to the Famine. A thematic history of Ireland, 1690-1848 , to be published by Routledge. He teaches specialist modules on Irish history 1690-1848, German history 1870-1945, and Nationalism. He has successfully supervised PhD and MPhil students to completion and welcomes expressions of interest from prospective postgraduate researchers in most aspects of British and Irish history from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Dr Anna Muggeridge

Dr Anna Muggeridge is a specialist in Modern British History, with a particular expertise in women's history.

Dr Elspeth King

Elspeth King joined the university in August 2022 after 8 years of being an Associate Lecturer. Her research and teaching interests are in twentieth-century British history, especially the First and Second World Wars and Women’s History.

Elspeth is also interested in social class and the impact this has on the lived experience of people in everyday life.

The Creative writing aspect of this joint honours degree will provide a foundation for students who are interested in developing writing as a profession, for example in the creative industries and/or commercial markets and an understanding of how writers make a living.

Graduates from this course will be very successful candidates for careers in teaching because of the emphasis on writing in the new English curricula. Graduates may equally go on to work in sectors such as publishing, the media, marketing and communications. The course also provides an excellent basis for further study or for self-employment as a freelance writer.

History joint honours graduates from Worcester have progressed in recent years to take up work in a variety of career sectors, including teaching, accountancy, law, the media industries, local government, the police, retailing, administration, marketing, management and university lecturing and research.

A growing number of our graduates progress to postgraduate research in history, both at the University of Worcester and at other universities. Thus, History remains an attractive and personally satisfying degree to study, with a strong track record of supporting graduate employability in a range of professional, managerial, administrative and media-related careers.

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