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Postgraduate Certificate
Birkbeck, University of London
Part Time
OCT-25
1 year
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Postgraduate Certificate
Birkbeck, University of London
Part Time
OCT-25
1 year
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Our postgraduate screenwriting course offers you an integrated programme in the history, theory and practice of screenwriting. It will develop your practical screenwriting skills and techniques, and you will be able to develop outlines, treatments and scripts towards a portfolio of original projects. Projects may be for film or television and the course will encourage you to write in different genres, and expect you to rewrite draft scripts with feedback and tutor support.
One distinctive feature of the course is the fast-track core module which will allow all students enrolling on the course, including graduates in other fields, to gain detailed knowledge of screenwriting theories, conventions and formats, and develop the ability to apply these to writing practice. Subsequent modules will deepen your writing skills and knowledge of screenwriting with assignments of increasing length designed to meet industry requirements, such as feature film script and television series writing. You will also study the discourse and practices of screenwriting.
If you progress to the Master's degree, central to that course is examining how the industry works, and to this end there are six autumn industry talks with guest speakers, and a four-day summer school, which focuses on the writer working in the industry, and includes pitching and storytelling workshops.
We offer this course as a Master’s and a Postgraduate Certificate. For the Certificate you study fewer modules and do not complete a final project/portfolio.
CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY
Graduates can pursue career paths in the creative industries, such as screenwriting, script editing and collaborating with readers/directors/producers/co-writers. Possible professions include:
screenwriter
script writer
creative writer
magazine or newspaper journalist
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher
higher education lecturer.
A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in any related subject; other qualifications will be considered.
Students living in
Domestic
£3,600 per year
Students from Domestic
Students are charged a tuition fee in each year of their course. Tuition fees for students continuing on their course in following years may be subject to annual inflationary increases.
£6,610 per year
Students from EU
Students are charged a tuition fee in each year of their course. Tuition fees for students continuing on their course in following years may be subject to annual inflationary increases.
£6,610 per year
Students from International
Students are charged a tuition fee in each year of their course. Tuition fees for students continuing on their course in following years may be subject to annual inflationary increases.
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