BA Creative Writing and Film & Theatre
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 and Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, and Design & Creative Practice. Taught jointly by the Department of English Literature and the Department of Film, Theatre and Television. The Placement and Employment Skills module offers an industry role with reflective learning and intensive research.
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
- Optional Language Modules
- 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