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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Bath Spa University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP-21
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
Do you enjoy writing about people, places and wildlife? Are you interested in environmental issues in Britain and around the world? Would you like to be published, and make a living as a travel or nature writer?
This travel writing and nature writing Master's focuses on learning to write from your own experience in the field. You’ll develop your writing skills and techniques, learn from established writers, and examine the history, context and genres of travel and nature writing.
By meeting practitioners – writers, editors, agents and publishers – you’ll gain a unique insight into the professional skills you require to get your writing published.
This low-residency course allows you to be based wherever you wish, so you can pursue your academic work while maintaining your current lifestyle. It can be taken full-time over one year, or part-time over two.
Overview
We aim to give you an understanding of issues and approaches to the representations of peoples, other species, habitats, places, cultures and environments in various kinds of writing. You’ll graduate with the ability to apply what you’ve learned to your own professional practice.
How will I be taught?
A large part of your learning is on three residential courses. You’ll undergo an intensive few days of creative writing, discussion, meetings with practitioners and commissioners, and first-hand experience in the field. Please note that you’ll have to pay for travel, food and accommodation on the residential courses.
You’ll also learn online. You’ll have internet-based seminars and group discussions on Google Hangouts. You’ll also post your work on our Virtual Learning Environment, where your peers and tutors can critique it in detail.
You’ll benefit from one-to-one sessions with your tutors.
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University information
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University League Table
93rd
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Campus address
Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BN, England
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Subject ranking
66th out of 97 8
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Entry standards
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10062 62%51st
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 53.73 75%89th
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