Creative and Script Writing – (M.A.)

This degree builds on the well-established teaching of Creative Writing at UWL and capitalises on opportunities presented by the Media Centre and the recently expanded Film and Media Studies. The emphasis is on wide ranging creativity and its application to the specific areas of Film, TV, Radio and Theatre Writing as well as video production. The MA is a response to the growing demand for schemes which provide vocational skills and a recognition that the world of the twenty-first century is one in which creativity skills will be at a premium.

Lampeter is extremely well suited to the pursuit of courses of a creative nature and the excellently equipped Media Centre makes UWL extremely attractive.

The overall aim of the MA is to equip students with the ability to access areas of creativity at an advanced level, while the practical benefits offered by the scheme will enable students to pursue careers in those areas that call on such skills with a real expectation of success. As well as discovering pathways into the worlds of Film, Television, Radio and Theatre writing, students on this course will become aware of the possibilities for publication of their work (novel, short story, poetry) and of the responsibilities that writers carry.

Students develop an understanding of these responsibilities and the related decision making that arises - including the supervision and guidance of others - and become able to apply the knowledge and skills acquired on the course to teaching others these skills whether it be in schools, colleges or in the community. Because of the linking of the Creative element, which is more theoretical and philosophical with the more immediately practical Script Writing, students are prepared to a higher degree than others to meet the vocational challenges of writing.