BA Creative Writing and Film
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including a grade B in English Literature or a related subject. Related subjects include: English Language, English Language and Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Creative Writing. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in English at higher level.
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing and Photography. The course is taught jointly by the Department of English Literature and the Department of Film, Theatre and Television. A placement and employment skills module offers an industry role with reflective learning and career-focused research. The course is based near Shadowbox Studios Shinfield, located on University land as part of the Screen Berkshire partnership.
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