Stage and screen
Part-time courses
Explore your creativity or examine the works of others – learn the art of writing for screen and performance, or dive into the work of cinema icons such as Hitchcock, Lynch and Pressburger.
Browse through our collection of upcoming courses in film and creative writing below.
Upcoming courses
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course introduces the key characteristics of creative writing. You will be supported with stage-by-stage guidance as you assimilate and employ a range of critical and creative methods. The course includes tutor feedback and participant discussion.
- Wed 11 Sep 2024 – 22 Nov 2024
Online - live • Short courses
Work actively to understand key screenwriting concepts to build your awareness of the needs of your film idea. Develop this into a riveting outline, populate it with engaging characters, and draw your audience into your story world though genre.
- Mon 30 Sep 2024 – 02 Dec 2024
- 10 meetings
- 1:30 – 2:30pm
In-person weekly • Short courses
Actively develop your film idea to build your awareness of its value and needs in this interactive seminar. Expand this into a pitch, communicate what you bring to the story, and why it is worth turning into a film or TV programme.
- Mon 30 Sep 2024 – Mon 02 Dec 2024
- 10 meetings
- 7:00 – 9:00pm
In-person weekly • Short courses
What makes a compelling character, and how do we write one? In this course we'll look at the characters we love and investigate how to breathe life into characterisation in our own work through a series of practical writing exercises and class discussion.
- Thu 03 Oct 2024 – Thu 05 Dec 2024
- 10 meetings
- 2:00 – 4:00pm
In-person day/weekend • Short courses
Film noir has continued to be an influential genre in contemporary storytelling. This day event will serve as an introduction to key features of film noir movies from the 1940s, and introduce some defining instances of the form.
- Sat 07 Dec 2024
- 10:15am – 5:30pm
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course introduces the key characteristics of creative writing. You will be supported with stage-by-stage guidance as you assimilate and employ a range of critical and creative methods. The course includes tutor feedback and participant discussion.
- Mon 13 Jan 2025 – 28 Mar 2025
Literature, creative writing and film studies
Short, part-time and online courses in literature, creative writing and film studies at the University of Oxford.Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing
For aspiring writers, the Diploma offers involvement in a wide range of literary projects over two years of focused part-time study. Two study options are available including an online option with a summer school in Oxford.