BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing and Film and Television Studies

Module: 4CW003

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to: acquaint students to a wide range of ideas about language and writing; develop a foundational understanding of language, text and the craft of writing for future creative and professional writing experiences; enable students to make informed judgments about the nature and function of language and writing; and apply their understanding by writing original texts.

Module: 4FI003

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module focuses on film and television form and visual style. It provides an introduction to the key elements of screen language; which is examined through sections on mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. The module provides the tools for textual analysis of film and television. In addition the module introduces academic skills in constructing bibliographies and in using databases for film and television studies on the internet.

Module: 4EN009

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will explore a broad selection of poetry from different periods of literary history with an emphasis on learning techniques for formal analysis (close reading), creative expression (writing poetry), and performance. We will consider aspects of reading, writing, and performing poetry, including form, rhythm and meter, diction, figurative language and sound. We will also consider the development of particular genres (e.g. the ballad, the sonnet) and forms (e.g. blank verse, free verse) over time, from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the horizon of reader expectations that accrue around poetic forms and genres.

Module: 4CW001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will teach students how to read with an eye for technique. It will focus on how writing is structured and the various ways in which authors create compelling narratives. It will address a variety of modes of writing and genres including novels, short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and tap into reading and critical theories. Students will be given the opportunity to experiment creatively within those modes, and reflect on what can be learned from the study of other people's work.

Module: 4FI006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to introduce you to a variety of factual genres encompassing national and trans-national perspectives. As hybridity is seen now as an essential characteristic of factuality, this module analyses the boundaries between fact and fiction in various popular factual formats and examines a variety of critical approaches and perspectives by scholars and practitioners of film and media in relation to the production of documentary and reality TV.

Module: 4FI001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will introduce students to the devices and concepts of narrative structure in film, and provide models with which to analyse narrative and its various functional elements. We will consider the particular aspects of film narrative, and how these have been drawn from and, in turn, influenced other narrative forms. This will include addressing the processes through which written and graphic text, and dramatic performance, become transferred and adapted into film narrative. These issues will be explored further through a group assessment exercise in which a scene from a short written narrative will be adapted into a scene from a screenplay.

Module: 5FI008

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to explore and analyse what is meant by & lsquo;representation& rsquo;. It engages with themes and debates concerning the conventional techniques, the effects, and the politics of representation and cinema/television, and uses these tools to analyse the filmic representations of social constructs such as gender, & lsquo;race& rsquo;, class and sexual identity.

Module: 5CW003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module studies life-writing across a range of cultures and periods, examining its diversity, its formal properties and its social and personal value as witness to oppression, a form of consciousness- raising, personal testimony and literature.

Module: 5FI012

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module explores contemporary culture’s continuous reworking of texts across different media. It investigates film and television adaptation as a heightened example of postmodern approaches to originality and authorship which encourage us to think of “all texts as intertexts, all reading as rereading, all writing as rewriting” (Leitch 2005, p.239). The sessions explore historical explanations of adaptation, from fidelity analysis to dialogism, and apply these ideas to diverse adaptations of both canonical and non-canonical sources.

Module: 5CW002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module you& rsquo;ll research the readership and style of various magazines, websites and organisations, with a view to writing perfectly pitched& nbsp;feature articles. You will learn the varied forms of the feature& nbsp;and get practical experience of working on real-world& nbsp;publication ideas. You will also have to produce a professional profile for yourself as a writer. Practical application is emphasised in this module and the assessment is& nbsp;relevant to the current freelance writing industry.

Module: 5MZ033

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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This module introduces you to the knowledge and skills required for writing feature articles for print, broadcast and online news outlets. You will be introduced to a wide range of writing structures required for feature articles that could be produced and distributed among various platforms, including social media

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