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
Summer schools • Short courses
Examining how British cinema has evolved in the 21st Century, delve into production, distribution, and exhibition sectors. Learn how Cinema, a lens for cultural and social issues, reflects historical and contemporary national identity shifts.
- Sun 30 Jun 2024 – 06 Jul 2024
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 18 Sep 2023 – 27 Nov 2023
- 11 meetings
- 3:30 – 4:30pm
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, then learn to communicate what you bring to the story, and why it is worth turning into a film or TV programme.
- Mon 25 Sep 2023 – Mon 27 Nov 2023
- 10 meetings
- 7:00 – 9:00pm
In-person weekly • Short courses
A TV Bible is the blueprint for a television series. This course will help you draft a TV Bible and the outline of a pilot, and gain the tools needed develop the project further. For writers of all levels.
- Tue 26 Sep 2023 – Tue 28 Nov 2023
- 10 meetings
- 10:30am – 12:30pm
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.