BA Film Studies and Creative Writing
Entry requirements
A level: BBC in three A Levels. IB: 554 in three Higher Levels or 29 points.
About this course
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing and Film Studies, combining literary and screen-based study. Core topics include Research Methods, Design & Creative Practice, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Professional experience modules in both second and final year offer work placements or client projects. An optional four-week summer school in the American South is available at Level 5.
Modules
- Filmmaking Fundamentals
- Delivery, Performance and Other Platforms: All the Writing Selves
- Writing Scripts
- Becoming a Cultural Citizen
- Discoveries: Self and Society in Post-war British Children's Fiction
- Writing Fiction
- History in Media and Film: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture
- Sights and Sounds: Analysing Film
- Genre, Form and Modes
- Global Cinemas: Beyond Hollywood
- Professional Experience for Film Studies and Creative Writing (Year 2)
- Pathways with Film and Creative Writing: Developing Your Profile
- The Power of Cinematic Representation
- Screenwriting: Principles and Practices
- Documentary Film
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
- Creative Arts and Humanities in Society
- Sources of Writing
- Local Literature in Action
- Extended Screenwriting Project
- Professional Experience for Film and Creative Writing (Year 3)
- Employing Film and Creative Writing: Putting Your Subject into Practice
- Britain on Film: Trends, Theories, Debates
- Youth and Film: Growing Up on Screen
- Into the Matrix: Postmodernism in Fiction, Film and Theory
- Life Writing
- Writingscapes
- Working Class Fictions
- Thresholds: Young Adult Fiction
- Other-than-human worlds: nature writing, environmental writing
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 6)
- Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation