Film and Creative Writing (Placement Year) : BA Hons : PW39

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster's degree in Film and Creative Writing is taught jointly by the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the Department of English and Creative Writing. It combines the study of Film with the writing of original and imaginative fiction, poetry or plays. These two different focuses reinforce and complement each other.

Your Creative Writing courses are taught by a team of widely published authors through a combination of lectures, readings, practice and discussion in regular tutor-led workshops. Your degree includes an Introduction to Creative Writing in your first year, and in your second and third years of study you will choose additional genre-specific units such as Short Fiction, Poetry Writing or Creative Non-fiction.
You will begin your degree with core courses including an Introduction to Film and Creative Writing.
In your second year you’ll move on to subjects such as Global Cinema, Intermediate Creative Writing and our LICA interdisciplinary module Critical Reflections. You will then complete your degree with further Creative Writing modules and chose from a selection of optional Film modules including Contemporary Hong Kong cinema and The Cultural History of American Film.

You will have the opportunity to spend Year 3 on placement with a public, private or voluntary organisation in the UK or overseas. This experience will boost your employment prospects and will help you to decide on your career direction and the kind of organisation in which you want to work once you graduate. You will be doing a real, responsible job – with all the satisfaction that brings. Our Placements Team will support you in finding and applying for a suitable placement that will support your professional development. Applying for a placement is a competitive process and the preparatory modules you will complete in years one and two are designed to give you the best chance of success in your placement applications.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

Film at Lancaster is a stimulating and intellectually engaging course which provides a framework for the close analysis of individual films. You will study cinema history and the social significance of films and will develop a detailed understanding of the techniques of film production. You will also have the opportunity to produce short films in all three years of your study. You can choose from a range of specialist courses and will develop skills that can lead to postgraduate study and careers in the media, advertising and marketing.

A Film and Creative Writing degree gives graduates the capability to work independently and collaboratively in a wide range of professions. Our graduates have gone into production roles at the BBC, ITV and MTV, independent film production and have become published novelists, poets and playwrights, teachers, lecturers and researchers.

You will also be able to develop key transferable skills – such as creative thinking, communication, project design and group management, as well as research, analysis, and critical writing – that will make you extremely attractive to a wide range of employers, including those within the different creative and cultural industries which now forms a large part of the UK’s economy. Our graduates are well placed to purse postgraduate vocational training in media-related professions, such as broadcast and print journalism, or take their skills into promotional and marketing roles

Many of our film and creative writing graduates progress to postgraduate degrees to become academics, lecturers and teachers or further vocational training in film production, including the prestigious New York Film Academy and London Film School.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects A level in one of the following subjects: Creative Writing, English language, English Literature or A level English Language and Literature.

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • Cinema
  • Writing
  • Team Training
  • Poetry
  • Hollywood
  • Film Studies
  • Arts and Culture
  • Global Cinema
  • Documentary film

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Introduction to Creative Writing
    • Introduction to Film Studies
    • Placement Preparation
    • The Arts and Culture in Modernity
Year 2

Core

    • Critical Reflections
    • Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Creative Non-Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • Documentary Cultures
    • Documentary Film Practice
    • European New Wave Cinema
    • Film and Comic Books
    • Introduction to Sound
    • Media & Performance
    • Perception and the Arts
    • Poetry: Genre and Practice
    • Short Fiction: Genre and Practice
    • Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
    • Writing place and landscape
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
Year 4

Core

    • Dissertation
    • Work Based Learning Reflection

Optional

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
    • Advanced Short Story: Form and Practice
    • Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
    • Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
    • Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
    • Creative Non-Fiction II
    • Film Theory
    • Longer Fiction: Skills and Techniques for Approaching a Novel
    • Narrative and New Media
    • Poetry and Experiment
    • Silent Cinema
    • Writing/Reading Poetry

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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