Film Studies and Creative Writing with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

University of Keele

Foundation Year

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students

Film Studies and Creative Writing

Combining the study of film and creative writing at Keele offers exciting opportunities to explore the modern and historical contexts of moving image culture and literary genres. You will deepen your knowledge of cinematic and literary styles through the analysis and composition of screenplays, poetry and prose. You will develop a critical approach towards your learning and creative practice, through the discussion of key films, texts and theories, and in the supportive atmosphere of student-oriented seminars and workshops. Practical options also offer you the chance to write and produce your own films, using the resources of our dedicated Media Building.

Why choose this course?

• No. 1 in the UK. Britain's best university, ranked by students (Student Crowd University Awards, 2022)
• Work Placement opportunities to gain key transferable skills to enhance your career prospects
• Expert support for you to develop and produce creative content, such as short films. documentaries, screenplay treatments, poetry and prose
• Discover diverse cultures through an optional International Year at a partner university across the globe

Film Studies and Creative Writing at Keele enables you to develop theoretical and practical skills in the analysis and production of both film and literature. You will engage in critical discussion of key texts, genres, and theories of film and literary style. You will explore film and literature from a historical perspective, considering variations and influences across cultures and time.

Distinctively, the course at Keele offers you the chance to explore the relationship between film and writing, and how these two modes of expression work together. You will gain an understanding of narrative form and screenplays, and their central role in cinematic production. You will also have the opportunity to hone your skills in the composition of poetry and prose forms.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.