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UndergraduateDe Montfort University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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Course summary
This programme offers an exciting opportunity to combine expertise in both creative writing and drama performance. You’ll work with professional researchers, published writers, research-active academics, and visiting practitioners, gaining valuable insights into both disciplines. We welcome you if you are passionate about creative writing, eager to build on your strengths, and excited to explore new ones. Our thematic modules allow you to experiment with various forms and styles, helping you create original works informed by knowledge of craft, research, critical reflection, and feedback from diverse writers. Grounded in contemporary performance methods, scholarly thinking, and historical theatrical traditions, this course prepares you for a wide range of arts-related careers. You’ll explore topics like acting, performing, directing, creative writing, and theatre for social change, all while being supported in developing your own artistic vision and aspirations.
- Expand your potential career pathways, from professional writing to performance-based roles, and be well-prepared for a varied and exciting career.
- Benefit from our partnership with Leicester’s iconic Curve theatre, offering internships, placements, performance opportunities, and skills workshops to enhance your practical experience.
- Learn beyond classroom boundaries, exploring stimulating settings like Leicester Gallery, local museums, archives, and a deconsecrated chapel. Our Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts provides state-of-the-art facilities, including specialist studios and rehearsal spaces.
- Join writing networks, perform at spoken-word events, and showcase your work at festivals like DMU’s States of Independence.
- Our graduates work in theatre companies, media, technical theatre production, and community arts, or pursue careers as professional writers across various fields.
Modules
First year Block 1: Exploring Creative Writing Block 2: Journey and Places Block 3: Revolutions: Staging Plays Block 4: Shaping Ideas Second year Block 1: Making Theatre and Performance Block 2: Exploring Work and Society Block 3: Story Craft Block 4: Theatre Company: Production Third year In the third year, the programme offers you flexibility to pursue your individual career interests and aspirations through two route options. Third year - route A Block 1: Screentime Block 2: Writing and Publishing Block 3: Performance, Identity and Activism Block 4: Professional Performance Practice or Negotiated Project Third Year - Route B Blocks 1 and 2: Choice of modules Block 3: Uncreative Writing Block 4: Dissertation
Assessment method
We want to ensure you have the best learning experience possible and a supportive and nurturing learning community. That’s why we’re introducing a new block model for delivering the majority of our courses, known as Education 2030. This means a more simplified timetable where you will study one subject at a time instead of several at once. You will have more time to engage with your learning and get to know the teaching team and course mates. You will receive faster feedback through more regular assessment, and have a better study-life balance to enjoy other important aspects of university life. Structure This degree programme is carefully designed to develop your potential by ensuring you encounter the full range of forms open to the 21st century creative writer, whilst also allowing you the flexibility to focus, for assignments, on projects and genres that interest you most. We want you to learn that practicing a particular kind of writing can hone your craft in a different form. In the first year, the focus is upon shorter work, and the importance of developing your editing and re-drafting skills; and your capacity to accept and evaluate feedback from others. This process will enable you to take a critical and reflective approach to your work (Both creative and reflective writing will be assessed). But you will also practice shaping and developing your own ideas, and practice reading as a writer to learn new craft skills. As you progress through your studies the assignments lengthen, and the focus upon research intensifies as you are expected to situate your own writing alongside your reading of other writers in your field. This involves developing a more sustained writing practice informed by an understanding of the conventions of particular genres, and your management of readers’ expectations. You will also consider how your sense of the ways in which creative work is published and marketed will help you understand how your own practice might fit in – or resist – contemporary conventions. In all years, the modules reinforce the knowledge that reading and analysing the work of other practitioners – your fellow students included - will help you understand and develop your own formal and technical abilities. You will experience a range of assessment modes alongside creative writing pieces in the core genres, for example, creative CVs, publications projects, case studies, field trips, and hypertext and audio-visual work. The bulk of the assessment is centred on creative writing coursework and critical reflection – you will take a reflective, critical, and analytical approach to their work and to learn to read as practitioners. You will gain insight into your own creative methods by situating your work in relation to other writers, research materials, and critical writings. Contact hours You will be taught through a combination of workshops, lectures, tutorials, group work and self-directed study. In your first year you will normally attend around 10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and workshops) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 28 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.
How to apply
29Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- W905
- Institution code:
- D26
- Campus name:
- Leicester Campus
- Campus code:
- Y
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 104 points
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DMM
Access to HE Diploma - M: 30 credits
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 24 points
T Level - M
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| EU | £16250 | Year 1 |
| International | £16250 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Please note that fees are subject to an annual review. Any increase in fees for Home students would be based upon a review of our provision and in line with the fee cap set by the government.
For Overseas students such reviews will be based on a market assessment and communicated to students at least 6-months before any programme commencing. Please visit the tuition fees pages of our website for further information: dmu.ac.uk/funding
Provider information
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH