Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
All modules below are worth 20 credits each.
- Film, Genre and Adaptation
- Professional Writing
- Spectacular Hollywood
- Telling Tales
- Tips, Tricks, Techniques
- Writing for the Film and TV Industries
Year 2
Core modules
All modules below are worth 20 credits each.
- British Cinema
- World and Transnational Cinema
Optional modules
All modules below are worth 20 credits each.
- Comic Book Industries
- Creative Writing and Critical Thinking
- Creative Writing for Comedy
- Creative Writing for Film
- Engaged Citizenship through Interdisciplinary Practice
- Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange (60 credits)
- Finding Form - Fiction
- Finding Form - Non-Fiction
- Finding Form - Speculative Fiction
- Finding Form - Writing for Performance
- Press and Public Relations
- Production: Camera and Editing
- Production: Short Film-Making
- Professional Experience
- Researching Genre
- Student Enterprise
- Transmedia Narratives and Strategies
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules
All modules below are worth 40 credits each. You choose either one or the other.
- Dissertation (Creative Writing or Film and Media)
- Practical Video Project
Optional modules
All modules below are worth 20 credits each.
- Fact and Fiction
- Fan Fiction
- Gender, Sexuality and Cinema
- Marketing Movies
- Media Fan Cultures
- Researching Animation
- Studying Comedy
- Travel Writing
- Writing and Producing Magazines
- Writing Project (With Publishing)
