BA Creative Writing and Film
Course Overview
This joint BA in Creative Writing and Film offers a unique opportunity to develop your narrative craft while gaining a deep critical and practical understanding of cinema. You will be taught by published writers and leading film academics, fostering your creativity within a supportive and collaborative community. The course culminates in a major creative research project or dissertation, allowing you to synthesize your skills in writing and film.
Key Program Highlights
- Taught jointly by practising, published authors and film academics, providing expert guidance in both disciplines.
- Gain hands-on experience through optional practical filmmaking modules and access to professional-grade facilities at Minghella Studios.
- Become part of a vibrant creative community with student-run societies, workshops, and opportunities to publish your work.
- Study a wide range of cinematic history, from world cinema and Hollywood to avant-garde and digital media.
- Enhance your employability with options for study abroad or an academic placement in the arts, commerce, or industry.
Course Overview
This joint BA in Creative Writing and Film offers a unique opportunity to develop your narrative craft while gaining a deep critical and practical understanding of cinema. You will be taught by published writers and leading film academics, fostering your creativity within a supportive and collaborative community. The course culminates in a major creative research project or dissertation, allowing you to synthesize your skills in writing and film.
Key Program Highlights
- Taught jointly by practising, published authors and film academics, providing expert guidance in both disciplines.
- Gain hands-on experience through optional practical filmmaking modules and access to professional-grade facilities at Minghella Studios.
- Become part of a vibrant creative community with student-run societies, workshops, and opportunities to publish your work.
- Study a wide range of cinematic history, from world cinema and Hollywood to avant-garde and digital media.
- Enhance your employability with options for study abroad or an academic placement in the arts, commerce, or industry.
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Poetry in English
- Approaches to Television
- Approaches to Film
- Introduction to Scriptwriting
- Introduction to Drama
- Shelf Life
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Comedy on Stage and Screen
- Radical Forms in Theatre and Performance
- Optional Language Modules
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Film Forms and Cultures
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Myth, Legend and Romance: Medieval Storytelling
- Creative Writing: The Short Story
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Placement and Employment Skills
- Documentary
- Television and Contemporary Culture
- From Acting to Performance
- Reworking Shakespeare in Performance
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Shakespeare
- Optional Language Modules
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Film Dissertation
- Creative Research Project
- Creative Writing Masterclass: Poetry
- Creative Writing Masterclass: Prose
- Literature and Mental Health
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Performance and Design
- Advanced Scriptwriting
- Screen Bodies
- Scriptwriting for Stage and Screen
- Children's Literature
- Placing Jane Austen
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- From Romance to Fantasy
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Adaptions across Stage and Screen
- Shakespeare on Film
- Musical Theatre
- Film Programming and Film Festivals
- Optional Language Modules
