BA (Hons) Film Studies and Creative Writing

Blend your love of film with your passion for writing in our BA (Hons) Film Studies and Creative Writing degree course.

You’ll explore theories and genres of film and writing through history, study how they might evolve in the future, and experience the craft of filmmaking both as a critic and creator. This unique combination will support and prepare you to write short stories, create scripts, and produce screenplays.

From your second year, you'll collaborate more widely and choose modules such as filmmaking, editing, and having your scripts brought to life on the main stage of the New Theatre Royal by fellow performance students.

You'll develop skills in this degree course that will set you up for a career in the creative sector, particularly the film industry. Other career paths include journalism, scriptwriting, marketing, public relations and teaching.

Course highlights

• Take part in Portsmouth's annual Comic Con for the latest developments in creative writing and literature, popular culture, fan communities, and technology – course lecturers and students are panellists.
• Get the opportunity to shadow theatre professionals and have your work performed on stage, thanks to our links with Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal and other local theatres.
• Deepen your learning from an experienced teaching team of published novelists and journalists, prestigious magazine editors, scriptwriters, academic researchers, and performance poets
• Build your writing portfolio by contributing to our course blog, The Eldon Review, and hyperlocal news zine Star & Crescent
• Gain valuable professional experience by taking an optional placement
• Experience another culture and way of learning by studying abroad for a year or a single semester
• Boost your lingual abilities by learning a language with our extra-curricular Institute-Wide Language Programme – and earn credits for it

We’re proud to be a breath of fresh air in the academic world – a place where everyone gets the support they need to achieve their best. We’re always discovering. We don’t fit the mould, we break it. Just as the world keeps moving, so do we.

We’re closely involved with our local community, and we take our ideas into the global marketplace. We partner with businesses, industry, and government to set the course for a better future. And we educate and transform the lives of our students to help them achieve their potential. We stand out, not just in the UK but in the world. We excel in research areas from cosmology and astrophysics to cybersecurity, forensics, and sport science. Since the first day we opened our doors, we've looked towards the future. And we're here to help you shape it.