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Childhood Studies (including foundation year) will prepare you for university study whilst introducing you to the field of childhood studies and psychoanalysis.

Childhood studies is a vibrant and exciting field which has expanded in recent years to include knowledge from psychology, sociology and psychoanalysis.

Gain a unique skillset by using data science to tackle Linguistics areas including the study of institutional language in settings like courtroom exchanges.

No need to choose between subject areas, your degree is balanced equally between the disciplines of Drama and Creative Writing but there will be many modules where the two disciplines come together, for example in modules such as Writing For Radio and Writing for Theatre. On the Drama side, you will have the opportunity to study many aspects of theatre from classic to contemporary texts, and to explore themes in drama such as gender, identity, tragedy, human rights, immersive theatre, devising and playwriting.

Our course combines hands-on practical filmmaking, creative writing workshops, and theoretical and contextual studies. We encourage you to forge links between theory and practice, and to make critically-informed choices in your own creative work through the knowledge you gain of film history, literary classics and writing across a range of genres.

Explore the urge to create and build new worlds, to share language and stories with others. On our course you work on the craft of writing through a multi-genre approach, through and across a variety of writings from fiction and poetry, to non-fiction, psychogeography, performance writing and beyond.

All writers are first of all readers and all readers are writers, for without the active participation of readers a book is never fully realised. Our BA Literature and Creative Writing offers a unique approach to the practice of reading and writing, combining more familiar British and American perspectives and readings with other influential schools of writing, from the study of tradition and myth to the innovative practice of the Workshop of Potential Literature or Oulipo in France.

On our course you explore the nature of crime, criminal justice and punishment within wider social contexts.

BA Criminology (including Foundation Year) prepares you for university study while introducing you to the fields of criminology and sociology

In this History and Criminology degree you are encouraged to consider the ways in which histories of crime and the discipline of criminology overlap and influence each other. Criminologists engage with some of the most pressing issues, decisions and dilemmas facing societies today.