If you are a talented and aspiring scriptwriter, our distance-learning script-writing course will realise your potential in a stimulating creative and intellectual context
Essential Info
Glamorgan’s postgraduate script-writing degree is a valuable opportunity to achieve a high-level academic qualification that combines vocational training with analytical skills. We will help you forge working relationships with professional writers and academics, and to explore potential vocational pathways in writing and/or academia. Tutors on this course are successful practitioners in the field of scriptwriting.
What You Will Study
The MA Scriptwriting course will include the following elements, though you can choose to specialise in writing for film, theatre, TV or radio:
- Writing a Short Drama Script
- Script Analysis
- Adaptation Treatment
- Major Project Treatment
- Full-length Script
You will be tutored through these modules, which culminate in a full-length script that showcases the skills you have gained during the course and can potentially act as an industry calling card.
How You Will Study
To fit the nature of creative scriptwriting, Glamorgan’s scriptwriting degree is delivered through distance learning with a series of residential weekends. You will be assigned a tutor with whom you will work closely over the two years of the course. Each month, and at other times when the progress of the writing demands, you will have a distance critique of your ongoing work. For this, your tutor will respond to your manuscript work and maintain a regular dialogue through post, e-mail or telephone.
There will be four, two-day residencies per year at the University (Friday and Saturday). Here, you will meet your tutor and fellow students, and attend workshops with tutors and guest writers. There will also be a longer residency in the summer lasting Friday to Monday, which may include seminar discussion, workshops and script-in-hand performances of your work. The MA Scriptwriting may also be studied through the medium of Welsh.
Possible Career Options
The skills acquired on this scriptwriting course lead either to a career as a writer in film, theatre, TV or radio, or to further academic study at PhD level.
