Arts and Human Sciences (AHS) Undergraduate Prospectus
BA (Hons)
Location Location
Southwark Southwark
BA (Hons)
Creative Writing and English
Duration Duration
Digital Film and Video
3 years (full-time) 3 years (full-time)
Start date Start date
September September
Number of places Number of places
25 60
Arts and Human Sciences Arts and Human Sciences
Course description Career opportunities
Timetable Timetable
Course description Career opportunities
The Creative Writing and English The creative writing degree is suitable
Full-time: days only Full-time: days only
The BA Digital Film and Video degree The course is designed for those
degree offers you the opportunity to for anyone who wants to be a writer, as
How to apply How to apply
will give you a wide range of practical who want to go into feature and
gain a qualification based on writing well those considering careers in which
Via UCAS Via UCAS
production experience. The course is a documentary film production,
practice. The degree also draws from writing and communication are essential balance of practical and theory-based commercial video, video art,
UCAS code UCAS code
(AHS)
English Literature units to provide an skills. This can range from copywriting,
W800 W690
teaching. Through the practical projects postproduction, video editing and

(AHS)
academic background in critical practice writing for the web, journalism and you will become familiar with factual directing within the advertising,
and reading, which will enhance your teaching to independent creative
Course contact Course contact
programming and documentary, as well television, film and online industries.
Simon Smith Patrick Tarrant
skills as a reader, essential for all good publishing.
Course Director Tarrantp@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5803
as the short feature and original drama. This is also an excellent course for those
creative writers.
Smiths22@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5421
In addition to your practical work, you wanting to make a career change or
The degree is also suitable for those
Typical offer
will develop an understanding of the to enhance their current media skills.
Typical offer 160 UCAS Tariff points
At Level One you are given the chance interested in pursuing a career in arts
160 UCAS Tariff points
broader contexts of film, television and Graduates have gone onto jobs with the
to practice prose, poetry, drama and administration, or further postgraduate
Course units
digital imaging. The course will teach BBC, C4 and film and video production
life writing, using texts by established study.
Course units Level 1
you the traditions and principles of both companies. Student films have been
Level 1 – Screen Strategies: Documentary
writers as models, as well as through
– Introduction to Prose and Narrative 1 – Video Journeys
documentary and feature film, as well screened at the Curzon Soho and the
writing workshops and group seminars, Progression routes
– Study Skills in an American Literary Context – Video Diaries
as experimental practices. New York Film Festival.
with the goal of developing key writing to postgraduate study
– Introduction to Poetry and Poetic Discourses 2 – Media Orientations
– Introduction to Drama and the Stage 2 – Cultural Industries
skills, a sense of audience, and the Successful graduates of this course may
– Introduction to Creative Writing 1 and 2 – Image Analysis
You will also take theoretical subjects Progression routes
markets open to new writers. chose to study at Masters level or for
– Writing the Self Level 2
that explore issues of representation, to postgraduate study
the PGCE. Students may also wish to
– Writing Home/Place – Video Fact and Fiction
narration, identity and power in Successful graduates have gone on to
Level 2 – Writing the Visual
At Levels Two and Three you further continue studying here at LSBU on our
– Writing Prose (30 credit unit) – Significant Others
television, film, photography, new study at Masters level. Students may
hone and engage these new abilities, MA Scheme in Creative Media Arts.
– Writing Poetry (30 credit unit) – Video Narratives
media and the arts. In the final year also wish to continue studying here at
eventually aiming in Level Three to write The MA Creative Writing or MA Media
– 4 additional options from English Studies such – Screen Strategies: Fiction
of your degree you will work on an LSBU on our MA Scheme in Creative
as Romantic Literature, Tragedy, Drama into the – Neo-Realism
for and edit a magazine, as well as Writing would be particularly suitable
20th Century, Caribbean Literature, and From – Video Visions
advanced independent project for Media Arts. Our project-centred MA
write and publish a book of your own for graduates from this course.
Realism to Modernism – Cultural Memory
an industry screening. in Digital Film also allows students to
in a genre of your choice. In addition
Level 3 Level 3
develop their own work in a range
– Brief-led Project: a creative writing magazine – Ethical Media
to academic teaching, you will also be Professional contacts/industry links
which third year writers contribute to, edit and – Brief-led Project
You will learn how to originate film and of genres.
taught by creative practitioners from Recently, Creative Writing and English
publish at the end of the first semester – Collaborative Project
video ideas, shoot and digitally edit your
across genres to give you a picture students have had the opportunity to
– Advanced Independent Project (45 credit unit): – Advanced Independent Practice
own work and output it to DVD and Professional contacts/industry links
a book-length project, in a genre of your choice, – Dissertation
of what is happening currently in the attend London stage productions of
created over the third year and published at the
will also be able to take related subjects The teaching team have contacts with
creative writing industries. Assessment plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Hansberry,
end of the degree
in scriptwriting and multimedia. LSBU’s key production and post-production
for Creative Writing varies, but is based Shakespeare, Lorca, Brecht, and Caryl
– 2 additional choices from English Studies
Digital Arts Media Facility includes Apple facilities and organise master classes
Field such as Art, Technology and Revolution,
on portfolios of creative work, and can Churchill. Students have visited behind
Contemporary Fiction, Poetry in English Since
Mac Final Cut Pro and AVID editing with industry professionals. Recent
consist of creative work in particular the scenes at the National Theatre,
1940 or Investigating Detectives
suites and a range of DV and HD format students have done work experience
genres, diaries, notebooks, oral the Shakespeare Globe, and The Rose cameras and production equipment. for the BBC, The London Studios and
presentations, manifestos, statements theatres. The course is taught by experienced many independent film and
and reflective essays. tutors, who have published on film, TV production companies.
For full entry requirements see pages television and the moving image, and
252 to 253. who continue to work as film and Recent guest lecturers
video makers. – Directors Nick Broomfield and
George Milton.
For full entry requirements see pages
252 to 253.
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