This course combines the study of the Film with the writing of original and imaginative fiction, poetry or plays. These two different focuses reinforce and complement each other. This course is taught by a team of widely published authors through a combination of lectures, readings, practice and discussion in regular tutor-led workshops. This degree includes an Introduction to Creative Writing in their first year, and in their second and third years of study students will choose additional genre-specific units such as Short Fiction, Poetry Writing or Creative Non-fiction. Film at Lancaster is a stimulating and intellectually engaging course which provides a framework for the close analysis of individual films. Students will study cinema history and the social significance of films and will develop a detailed understanding of the techniques of film production. Students will also have the opportunity to produce short films in all three years of their study. Students can choose from a range of specialist courses and will develop skills that can lead to post-graduate study and careers in the media, advertising and marketing. A Film and Creative Writing degree gives graduates the capability to work independently and collaboratively in a wide range of professions.  Our graduates have gone into production roles at the BBC, ITV and MTV, independent film production and have become published novelists, poets and playwrights, teachers, lecturers and researchers.