Program Overview

Creative Writing and Film and Screen Studies

Overview

Contemporary creative writing is diverse. It’s digital and on the page; social and singular. Our comprehensive programme includes prose fiction, YA, flash fiction, poetry, scriptwriting for live performance and screen, life writing and memoir.

What You'll Learn

• Year one: The course is carefully designed to enable you to explore and experiment with your writing and understand the foundations of writing craft. In the Writer’s Workshop modules you’ll be introduced to an array of different writing forms and genres and you’ll be experimenting with them each week.
• Year two: In the second year of the course, you have access to a range of modules that will enable you to specialise in a particular form or genre of writing. You’ll take a mixture of core and optional modules from a list that includes, for example, genre fiction, life writing, short stories, form and listening in poetry, and writing for screen.
• Year three: The final year of the programme is designed to consolidate your writing practice and support your progression into a writing-related career. You will take a dissertation-equivalent module in at least one of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scriptwriting or writing for young people.

Facilities and Resources

• Digital labs (Mac rooms) for students learning new media
• Virtual Learning Environment to support you in your modules
• Cameras, audio recording equipment available for students to borrow absolutely free
• Technical staff to help students use industry standard software
• Library with print and ebooks, digital resources, literary magazines and journals

Opportunities

• Study abroad: As part of your degree, you could study abroad on a placement at one of Bath Spa’s partner universities.
• Work placements, industry links and internships: Creative Writing students often find exciting subject-related placements and we do our best to help students make connections and gain experiences in companies and organisations that interest them.
• Careers: Current graduate careers include novelist, science magazine editor, children’s author, playwright, digital marketing executive, social media writer, commercial copywriter for brands or charities, regional editor for an online magazine, university lecturer, editor (Random House), and poet.

Fees

• 2025 entry:
  • UK full time: £9,535
  • UK part time: £4,768
  • International full time: £17,430
• Professional Placement Year: During the placement year, the fee is reduced to 20% of the full time fee. This applies to UK and EU/International students.
  • UK: £1,905
  • International: £3,486

Entry Requirements

• A Level: grades BBB-BCC including a Grade B in English or a related subject.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM) in any subject.
• T Levels: grade Merit preferred in a relevant subject.
• International Baccalaureate: a minimum of 32 points are required with a minimum of grade 5 in English at Higher Level.
• Access to HE courses: typical offers for applicants with Access to HE will be the Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, at Merit or higher).

English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants

• IELTS 6.0: for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.

Film and Screen Studies

Overview

Film and Screen Studies aims to produce graduates who have an informed, critical and creative approach to both understanding film and screen in contemporary society and to their own forms of critical, reflective and communicative practice.

What You'll Learn

• Year one: You’ll investigate film as a specific academic discipline, alongside how meaning is conveyed through film form and content.
• Years two and three: In years two and three you can design your programme from a range of exciting modules. You can also take part in organising LineUP, the annual Student Film Festival at Bath Spa University.

Facilities and Resources

• Commons building
• Newton Park Library
• Our Virtual Learning Environment
• Studio and post-production facilities

Opportunities

• Study abroad: As part of your degree, you could study abroad on a placement at one of Bath Spa’s partner universities.
• Fieldwork: Visits may include tours of famous UK film studios such as Pinewood and key film centres such as the BFI.
• Careers: The main focus of interest for our Film and Screen Studies graduates is the creative and cultural industries in the UK. These industries include advertising, journalism, publishing, film and film-related employments, television, radio and the heritage sector.

Fees

• 2025 entry:
  • UK full time: £9,535
  • UK part time: £4,768
  • International full time: £17,430
• Professional Placement Year: During the placement year, the fee is reduced to 20% of the full time fee. This applies to UK and EU/International students.
  • UK: £1,905
  • International: £3,486

Entry Requirements

• A Level: grades BBB-BCC preferred.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM) accepted in any subject.
• T Levels: grade Merit preferred.
• International Baccalaureate: a minimum of 32 points are required.
• Access to HE courses: typical offers for applicants with Access to HE will be the Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, at Merit or higher).

English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants

• IELTS 6.0: for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.