BA Creative Writing and Theatre
Course Overview
This joint BA in Creative Writing and Theatre offers a unique opportunity to develop your literary craft while exploring the dynamic world of live performance. You will hone your skills in character creation and narrative storytelling through workshops and analysis of dramatic texts, all within a supportive and collaborative community. The course leverages its proximity to London's theatre scene and state-of-the-art facilities to provide an immersive and professionally relevant education.
Key Program Highlights
- Taught by published authors and theatre professionals with strong industry links
- Gain practical experience through workshops, performances, and an annual Creative Writing Anthology
- Access to London's world-class theatre scene for performances and professional insight
- Study in cutting-edge facilities, including the purpose-built £11m Minghella Studios
- Opportunities for study abroad and industry placements to enhance your career prospects
Course Overview
This joint BA in Creative Writing and Theatre offers a unique opportunity to develop your literary craft while exploring the dynamic world of live performance. You will hone your skills in character creation and narrative storytelling through workshops and analysis of dramatic texts, all within a supportive and collaborative community. The course leverages its proximity to London's theatre scene and state-of-the-art facilities to provide an immersive and professionally relevant education.
Key Program Highlights
- Taught by published authors and theatre professionals with strong industry links
- Gain practical experience through workshops, performances, and an annual Creative Writing Anthology
- Access to London's world-class theatre scene for performances and professional insight
- Study in cutting-edge facilities, including the purpose-built £11m Minghella Studios
- Opportunities for study abroad and industry placements to enhance your career prospects
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Poetry in English
- Analysing Theatre and Performance
- 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
- Identity, Performance and Culture
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Creative Writing: The Short Story
- Shakespeare
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Placement and Employment Skills
- Documentary
- Reworking Shakespeare in Performance
- Television and Contemporary Culture
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Film and/or Theatre Dissertation
- Creative Research Project
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Shakespeare on Film
- Creative Writing Masterclass: Poetry
- Set Design
- Literature and Mental Health
- Creative Writing Masterclass: Prose
- Adaptions across Stage and Screen
- Musical Theatre
- Scriptwriting for Stage and Screen
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Children's Literature
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Placing Jane Austen
- Screen Bodies
- Film Programming and Film Festivals
- Optional Language Modules
