Creative and Professional Writing and Film and Television Studies with Foundation Year (Hons)

Overview

Your talent for creative and professional writing will be grown through practice, experimenting with creation in different forms and styles, while you build a scholarly understanding of film, introducing relevant concepts and theories associated with writing across several disciplines, the likes of which you will be accompanied to work with. 

The University of Wolverhampton adopts a Creative and Professional Writing and Film and Television Studies with Foundation Year (Hons) programme, enabling all students to collaborate as a single writing community alongside literary events and visiting lecturers, often experts in publishing and internationally renowned authors. In keeping with the diversity of the curriculum, graduates have gone on to pursue a wide range of careers, including journalism, education and TV production, while other alumni have ably continued to postgraduate study.

What happens on the course?

Reflecting the breadth of material covered in this course, the curriculum is designed to strengthen your proficiencies in creative writing, critical reading and employability. Under the tutelage of the School of Humanities’ Film Studies team, themselves studied in a multitude of film forms and contexts, you will research films in popular genres, movements and national cinemas, maintaining a mindfulness of film as both art and industrial product while examining representations of class, gender, ethnicity and identity on-screen.

The foundation year will aid you in acclimatising to University life and the level of work quality expected from students. Specialist modules focusing on different aspects of Humanities and Media will be offered in its second semester, while its first will emphasise the learning of transferable skills across various fields of study and employment. 

Further transferable skills will be developed throughout the course – higher order conceptual and communication skills, enterprise, digital literacy and IT awareness – which will prove immensely useful in seeking graduate employment, equipping you with abilities sought after in a multitude of careers.