BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing and Film and Television Studies with Foundation Year
Bachelor's degree
In Wolverhampton
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Neath Port Talbot College
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Canterbury College
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Kingston University London
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City College Norwich
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London College of Communication - Univ. of the Arts London
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Limperts Academy of Design
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West Lothian College
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
The Creative and Professional Writing and Media, Film and Television Studies degree course provides an opportunity for students to develop their own talent for writing, alongside a disciplined engagement with Film analysis and theory. The programme offers a supported, stimulating and multicultural environment in which students can create different forms and styles of writing, whilst developing a scholarly understanding of film.
The Foundation year prepares students for university level study. Successful completion of our Foundation course permits access to any of our Humanities or Media BA (Hons) degree courses, which include English, English Language, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Media, Philosophy and Religious Studies — many of which can be taken singly as specialist degrees or together as ‘joint’ degree routes. The Foundation year begins with modules aimed at providing transferable study skills and then, in the second semester, gives students the opportunity to study more specialist modules, with a focus on various aspects of Humanities and Media.
The study of Creative Professional Writing, Film and Television Studies will help students to communicate more effectively in writing, and enable them to enhance their own creative and critical judgement. Students will develop a range of subject specific and transferable skills, including higher order conceptual and communication skills, enterprise, digital literacy and IT awareness, all of which are of immense value in graduate employment.
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Your writing modules will fall broadly into three categories: Craft of Writing modules, Reading as a Writer modules, and Working as a Writer modules. Craft modules focus on you as a writer and are designed to help you explore your creative imagination whilst developing the skills required to express it. Reading as a Writer modules are designed teach you how to read with an eye for technique: the emphasis here will be on what you can learn from other writers across a spectrum of syles and genres. Working as a Writer modules have a vocational dimension and offer the opportunity to develop skills that will enhance your employablity as a writer.
The Film Studies team has a wealth of expertise across a variety of film forms and national cinemas, which include popular film genres such as The Western, gangster, science fiction and film noir.
Film Studies students are taught how to analyse individual film texts and to relate film to history and social and cultural processes. You will have the opportunity to examine representations of class, gender, ethnicity and identity by studying film genres, movements and national cinemas, including European and non-Western films as well as Hollywood classics. Students will examine film as an art and as an industrial product. Throughout the programme you will engage with critical and theoretical debates relevant to the subject.
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Subjects
- Professional Writing
- Media
- Writing
- University
- Film and Television
Course programme
Module: 3GK012
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.
Module: 3GK013
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.
Module: 3HU006
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to the twin notions of Utopias and Dystopias and uses a range of extracted primary texts (provided in class and on the VLE) to explore how writers, film makers, and others utilise the imagined space of a utopia or dystopia to make comment upon our world.
Module: 3GK014
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.
Module: 4CW003
Credits: 20
Period: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 2
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: 3
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.
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BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing and Film and Television Studies with Foundation Year
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Neath Port Talbot College
Foundation degree Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Kingston University London
Master Distance Learning£ 8,000 -
City College Norwich
A Level OnlinePrice on request -
London College of Communication - Univ. of the Arts London
Master OnlinePrice on request -
Limperts Academy of Design
Course Distance LearningPrice on request -
West Lothian College
HNC OnlinePrice on request
See all