Media & Film Studies and Screenwriting BA (Hons)

What makes Media & Film Studies and Screenwriting at Worcester special?

Studying these subjects in combination allows you to discover how technology and the media shape the world and affect peoples’ understanding and engagement with film. You will be encouraged to apply this knowledge to your writing and creativity through practical screenwriting, learning storytelling techniques that allow you to effectively manipulate narrative.

You will be taught in research-inspired lectures, seminars and workshops. Through academic endeavour, you will explore representation and ideology and discover how to articulate these forms and genres in your own work. You'll develop your industry awareness and engaging with prospective employers.

Overview

Key Features

Dynamic curriculum informed by the very latest research innovations on the media and film industries and associated contemporary cultural issues. Our lecturing team frequently publish their research and your learning is informed by this expertise
Benefit from regular visits, guest lectures and script feedback from top industry experts
Develop a solid portfolio of work, which can act as your springboard for a career in the creative and media industries
You will be introduced to leading innovators in the media, technology and creative industries. Our regional and national professional contacts include: digital marketing agencies, public relations agencies; immersive media agencies; A & R music representatives working with NFTs; local political party offices; award-winning content creatives; galleries and museums; festival and event organisers; charities and youth work
Interactive, investigative learning environments where critical understanding is developed through debate, creative problem solving and evaluating your own opinions, experiences and identity

Entry requirements

104

UCAS tariff points

Entry requirements

104 UCAS Tariff points

T Levels may be used to meet the entry tariff requirements for this course. Find out more about T levels as UCAS tariff points here.

Other Information

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please contact the Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk for advice.

Further information about the UCAS Tariff can be obtained from the .

Course content

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the discipline and feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do therefore change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practice. The most up-to-date information will be available to you once you have accepted a place and registered for the course. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative.

Year One	Mandatory Studying Media & Film Identity, Representation & Diversity New Waves & Popular Cinemas Scriptwriting: Ideas and Development Story Design and Analysis
Year Two	Mandatory Screen Cultures TV Scriptwriting: Concept and Development	Optional Researching Media & Film: Theories & Methods Contemporary British Cultures Festivals & Celebrations Audio Cultures Authors and Authorship Work Project Philosophies of Gender & Sexuality Beyond the Mainstream Digital Campaigns Developing the Feature Film Writing for Radio Writing for Interactive Media Script Editing Screen Adaption: Texts and Platforms Playwriting
Year Three	Mandatory Independent Research Project or Scriptwriting Final Project Industry, Practices and Application	Optional Writing Reviews in Media & Film Studies War, Democracy & the Media Immersive Media Local Cultures Film & Folk Literature Making Monsters Pornography & Modern Cultures Literature and Culture Screenwriting Extension Module Screen Adaptation Radio and Television Comedy Writing for Performance

Year One

Mandatory

Studying Media & Film
Identity, Representation & Diversity
New Waves & Popular Cinemas
Scriptwriting: Ideas and Development
Story Design and Analysis

Year Two

Mandatory

Screen Cultures
TV Scriptwriting: Concept and Development

Optional

Researching Media & Film: Theories & Methods
Contemporary British Cultures
Festivals & Celebrations
Audio Cultures
Authors and Authorship
Work Project
Philosophies of Gender & Sexuality
Beyond the Mainstream
Digital Campaigns
Developing the Feature Film
Writing for Radio
Writing for Interactive Media
Script Editing
Screen Adaption: Texts and Platforms
Playwriting

Year Three

Mandatory

Independent Research Project or Scriptwriting Final Project
Industry, Practices and Application

Optional

Writing Reviews in Media & Film Studies
War, Democracy & the Media
Immersive Media
Local Cultures
Film & Folk Literature
Making Monsters
Pornography & Modern Cultures
Literature and Culture
Screenwriting Extension Module
Screen Adaptation
Radio and Television Comedy
Writing for Performance

Teaching and assessment

You are taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, practical group work, peer review sessions and individual development tutorials. Transferable skills, employability and work-based learning allow you to develop media-enhancing skills alongside your creative practise.

For more information about teaching, learning and assessment on this course, please see the single honours course pages for Media & Film Studies BA (Hons) and Screenwriting (joint honours).

Meet the team

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course. Every member of the team has a wealth of industry experience, including academics with specialist areas and those who combine teaching with professional practice. There are also demonstrators and technicians.

Teaching is informed by research and consultancy and all permanent staff on the team are Fellows of HEA and have the post grad teaching qualification.

Katy Wareham Morris

Katy leads the BA Hons in Media & Film Studies, a dynamic course which responds to innovations in media forms and applications as well as contemporary cultural issues. Katy is particularly interested in how digital technologies have changed media industries and the way audiences respond to them; and, media futures including immersive media. Katy interrogates media representations created by and representing identities and cultures which have been historically marginalised and challenge the white, middle class, patriarchal tradition. Katy is a proud working class, disabled, female academic and, a published poet.

Dr Barbara Mitra

Dr Barbara Mitra is a Principal Lecturer in Media & Film Studies. She has varied teaching and research interests and has published on issues relating to television, gender, advertising and children, and has become interested in social media, body image and eating disorders.

Barbara's teaching includes specialist modules on gender and commercial issues of social media and she is also interested in the use of technology in relation to learning and teaching. She has spoken on local radio and schools on issues related to gender and body image, Facebook and television advertising and children. She has also made a number of films on various academic topics.

Barbara welcomes PhD and MRes topics in relation to the broad areas of gender, social media, body images and digital cultures.

Dr Mikel Koven

Dr Mikel J Koven is a senior lecturer in Media & Film Studies. His teaching areas include World cinema; genre; Hollywood cinema; horror cinema; film & folklore; and cult & exploitation cinema.

His research areas include Film & Folklore (fairy tales, myths, and legends); Exploitation cinema (with a focus on Italian horror film); Jewish cinema (representations, stereotypes, and the Holocaust); and “Cult” TV.

Holly Barnes-Bennetts

Holly completed a her BA Hons Media with Cultural Studies at Southampton Solent University in 2006. After finishing her degree she gained employment ranging from running music and arts festivals, working in PR and charity fundraising. She then returned to teaching, securing a Diploma to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (University of Warwick) and completing a Masters by Research from Bournemouth University. Currently, Holly is working towards her PhD at the 蜜桃直播 titled: A Digital Interactionist, Praxis Study of Perception and Communication of Positive Sexual Consent.

Careers

Media & Film Studies and Screenwriting graduates have skills suitable for a wide range of industries and fields including media technology, arts and culture, charities and the creative industries. Our course also provides an excellent foundation for postgraduate students. Potential careers for graduates of this course include:

Digital marketing
Public relations
Festival and events
Charities and youth work
Radio presenting, both local and national
Journalism
Events management
Media strategising
Television
Social media
Marketing and communications
Public relations
Copywriting
Teaching
Television and Film Production
Script Development and Editing
Media research
Advertising
Marketing and public relations

Fees and funding

Full-time tuition fees	UK and EU students The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £9,535 per year. For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.	International students The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £16,700 per year. For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.
Part-time tuition fees	UK and EU students The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £1,190.83 per 15-credit module, £1,587.77 per 20-credit module, £2,381.66 per 30-credit module, £3,175.55 per 40-credit module, £3,572.50 per 45-credit module and £4,763.32 per 60 credit module. For more details on course pages, please visit our course fees page.
Accommodation	Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience. Our halls of residence are home to friendly student communities, making them great places to live and study. We have over 1,000 rooms across our range of student halls. With rooms to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Halls' at £131 per week to 'Ensuite Premium Halls' at £228 per week (2025/26 prices). For full details visit our accommodation page.
Additional costs	Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses. If your course offers a placement opportunity, you may need to pay for an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Full-time tuition fees

UK and EU students

The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £9,535 per year.

For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

International students

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £16,700 per year.

For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

Part-time tuition fees

UK and EU students

The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £1,190.83 per 15-credit module, £1,587.77 per 20-credit module, £2,381.66 per 30-credit module, £3,175.55 per 40-credit module, £3,572.50 per 45-credit module and £4,763.32 per 60 credit module.

For more details on course pages, please visit our course fees page.

Accommodation

Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience. Our halls of residence are home to friendly student communities, making them great places to live and study.

We have over 1,000 rooms across our range of student halls. With rooms to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Halls' at £131 per week to 'Ensuite Premium Halls' at £228 per week (2025/26 prices).

For full details visit our accommodation page.

Additional costs

Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses.

If your course offers a placement opportunity, you may need to pay for an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

How to apply

Applying Through UCAS

is the central organisation through which applications are processed for entry onto full-time undergraduate courses in Higher Education in the UK.

Read our How to apply pages for more information on applying and to find out what happens to your application.

UCAS Code

PW39

Get in touch

Katy Wareham Morris

Course Leader

k.wareham.morris@worc.ac.uk

01905 855433

Admissions

admissions@worc.ac.uk

+44 (0) 1905 855111

Holly Barnes-Bennetts

Admissions Tutor

h.barnesbennetts@worc.ac.uk

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