Programme Specifications
Writing for Broadcasting, Media and Performance
Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
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Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
Creative Writing
Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
September 2023
Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
• To empower students to become creative thinkers and articulate practitioners, able to think through and beyond the creative processes that drive their study and to reflect on their practice within a wider, relevant intellectual context.
• To provide students with key skills in the design, development and delivery of creative tasks such as writing for theatre, radio, film and television and an understanding of the historical and contemporary processes and methodologies relevant to the field.
• To encourage the academic examination of a broad range of artistic style, genres and forms that will directly feed into student understanding of and engagement with their own creative work and projects.
• To develop methodologies for producing creative outputs across the wide range of media current in writing for theatre, film and television and radio and to examine, understand and implement different ways of writing.
• To develop and direct their individual and collective creative impulses and methodologies to enable production of creative work that engages with external demands and timetables.
• To develop a sophisticated understanding of their relationship with the professional world in which writers for theatre, film and television and radio conduct and complete their work.
• To develop a range of strategies for designing, developing and delivering creative outputs that includes the ability to engage with and build on external, constructive, critical feedback.
• To read as a writer and respond to the affective qualities of language, style and genre.
• To engage in research and intellectual enquiry relevant to the task and field of study.
• To cultivate the ability to work constructively as a member of a group, assuming varied roles within that group.
• To foster independent thought and the ability to follow through on an individual vision.
• To enhance the development of communication skills, enabling students to express themselves coherently, imaginatively and persuasively both orally and in writing in creative forms and formats and forums.
• produce clear, accurate, artistically coherent and technically sophisticated written work, which articulates a combination of research and creative ideas.
Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and
demonstrate knowledge and understanding, skills, qualities and other
attributes in the following areas:
A1 Drama, theatre and
performance as sites of study, thought and creative interplay that
interact directly with audiences
A2 Film and Television and Radio as creative media that engage creatively with audience experience in varied and sophisticated ways
A3 A range of historical and contemporary performative texts that form the creative basis for films, television, radio and theatre events and experiences
A4 A range of key writings in the area of theatre, radio, film and television, including the critical and creative output of theorists, writers, directors, designer, actors and critics.
A5 The processes, methodologies and strategies by which theatre, film and television and radio scripts are produced and realized.
Learning and Teaching
The proposed new scheme builds on the
department’s commitment to equipping students to understand and engage
with the professional, industry environment in which the creative arts
operate and is developed and nurtured. It speaks to the departmental
agenda that provides professionally orientated learning and introduces
new industry-orientated skills-based opportunities that capitalize on
the collaborative imperative around with the University wide Institute
structure is based. It also maintains and enrichens the portfolio of
specialist and specialized skills offered by the department to students
across its varied fields of study and is committed to developing both
critical and creative thinking that is reflexive and outward-facing and
engages with the creative arts within a scholarly, creative context.
Assessment Strategies and Methods
The scheme engages with the
departmental commitment to a wider range of assessment methods and
strategies that facilitates student engagement and opportunity to its
maximum potential. There will be traditional essay based assessments as
well as oral and written pitches, presentations and portfolio and there
will be a consistent emphasis on editing and improving work through many
drafts and iterations.
Information provided by Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies:
10.2.1 Intellectual Skills
By the end of their programme, all
students are expected to be able to demonstrate:
B1 The ability to identify, describe, interpret and critically interrogate a range of creative writing practices in the field of drama, film and television and radio
B2 The ability to contextualize, interpret and apply different historical and contemporary practice in the field of creative writing in theatre, film and television and radio
B3 the ability to analyse and identify different aspects of and stages in the compilation of a piece of creative writing in any of the relevant subject areas
B4 The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the impact of audiences on cultural and creative outputs
B5 The ability to sustain intellectual argument in both oral and written forms through written, mediated or live presentation, applying the most effective communication strategies
Learning and Teaching
The writing process is simultaneously one of creating and reading a text. Creative Writing students are required to read a wide range of texts: canonical works, the work of their peers, and, crucially, their own work. This scheme is characterised and enriched by the inclusion of creative practitioners, scholars and industry professionals. Alongside the direct artistic and professional requirements of the subject, lecturers will engage with the relationship between writing and other creative arts, theories of literary production, writing and society, writing and culture or writing and well-being. This scheme will have a distinctive focus on writing across a wide range of inter-connected creative media.
Assessment Strategies and Methods
Ongoing assessment is a central function of the iterative nature of the workshop process, which embraces both tutor feedback and peer assessment, as well as a growing ability to self-critique. Ongoing assessment will be delivered in formal feedback tutorials and in discussion of revisions and re-drafting tasks. Creative Writing is characterised by its high level of feedback through workshops and individual attention, in written and in oral forms. There is a recognition that assessment is part of the learning process and that feedback is given regularly in order to further the student's development.
10.2.2 Professional practical skills / Discipline Specific Skills
By the end of their programme, all students are expected to be able to:
C1 read as a writer - with an ability to analyse texts, performances and broadcasts, and respond to the affective power of language, using appropriate approaches, terminology and creative strategies
C2 communicate orally and through the written word concrete ideas and abstract concepts
C3 produce clear, accurate, artistically coherent and technically sophisticated written work, which articulates a combination of research and creative ideas
C4 view themselves as practitioners and reflect critically on their own creative writing practice
C5 use the views of others in the development and enhancement of practice; formulate considered practical responses to the critical judgements of others, while developing a generous yet rigorous critical scrutiny in peer review and workshop activities
Learning and Teaching
Students will develop a mature and nuanced aesthetic sensibility and sense of intellectual inquiry and employ an imaginative and divergent mode of thinking which is integral to identifying and solving problems, to the making of critical and reflective judgements, to the generation of alternatives and new ideas, and to engaging with broader issues of value in relation to their own work and the work of others.
Assessment Strategies and Methods
The scheme engages with the departmental commitment to a wider range of assessment methods and strategies that facilitates student engagement and opportunity to its maximum potential. There will be traditional essay based assessments as well as oral and written pitches, presentations and portfolio and there will be a consistent emphasis on editing and improving work through many drafts and iterations.
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By the end of their programme, all students are expected to be able to:
D1 initiate and take responsibility for their own work
D2 self-manage and show a distinct ability to work independently, set goals, manage workloads and meet deadlines
D3 select and employ communication and information technologies: source, navigate, select, retrieve, evaluate, manipulate and manage information from a variety of sources
D4 communicate their own ideas and the ideas of others concisely, accurately and persuasively in order to influence opinion, developing, constructing and presenting arguments in appropriate ways
D5 adapt to different demands and tasks, and be able to look beyond the immediate task to the wider context, including the social and commercial effects of their work
Learning and Teaching
Creative writing incorporates a range of highly transferable skills, including a high level of professional competence. The use of industry professionals as guest speakers, visiting lecturers or knowledge transfer associates ensures the contemporary relevance of such teaching.
Assessment Strategies and Methods The Assessment methods that will focus specifically on this aspect of student learning will be peer assessment, draft tasks, practical presentation of pitches and review and development tasks. This will assess student ability to adopt critical approaches to their own work and the work of others, to function critically and creatively as members of groups and to refer that learning in the context of individual work and projects. There will also be final project assessment that will evaluate students’ capacity to meet the demands of the market and professional industries via the delivery of a bespoke project to a specific timetable with definitive resources.
BA Writing for Broadcasting, Media and Performance [P302]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2017/2018
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years