Scriptwriting at Bath Spa University - UCAS

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Course summary

Develop your scriptwriting to the highest level and tailor your work to different types of media on this practical and collaborative course.

  • Join a lively, creative community and collaborate with your peers across various disciplines, from acting to directing and filmmaking.
  • Taught by leading industry professionals – working practitioners who love what they do.
  • Develop skills that prepare you for a professional life in the industry.
Take your writing to the highest level, and develop clear strategies for professional success. With a combination of expert guidance and peer-group workshopping, you’ll develop your unique voice as you learn to meet the demands of a highly competitive industry. The course will help you to become a more adept scriptwriter, able to work across theatre, radio, film, and television. Along with a comprehensive training in key writing skills, you’ll develop your critical thinking, creative dexterity, and coherent strategies for professional progress. With access to campus resources such as professional recording equipment and television studios, you’ll collaborate with acting, directing and film-making students to make films, record audio drama, and develop plays for theatre. Creative collaboration forms the heart of the Scriptwriting course, as you develop an understanding of live presentation, of idea as word, and of the direct relationship, in any given medium, between writer and audience.

Modules

This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.

  • Story Workshop
  • Writing for Performance
  • Production Lab
  • Professional Practice
- Final Script (Double Module)

Assessment method

You’ll be assessed by coursework and practical presentation.


Entry requirements

We’re looking for committed, self-disciplined writers with a few scripts behind them, not necessarily produced. We expect students to engage with each other in a supportive environment. Writing is hard work, and rewriting can be challenging, so we need students who genuinely want to learn and develop. Usually, you will have a good undergraduate degree in any subject. Relevant experience can be considered and entrance is through submission of work which needs to be presented to professional formatting standards, a personal statement, associated documentation as needed, and interview. Overseas students are also required to provide evidence of their English language ability. Ideally this should be IELTS 7.0 overall with a minimum score or 6.0 in each element, or equivalent. We’ll consider candidates without prior academic qualifications based on a short assessment.


Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9055 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9055 Year 1
Scotland £9055 Year 1
Wales £9055 Year 1
Channel Islands £9055 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9055 Year 1
EU £17645 Year 1
International £17645 Year 1

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Scriptwriting at Bath Spa University - UCAS