Over the first 2 semesters students take a core course and choose an optional course for each semester; the practical training in film writing takes place in workshops; these sessions will involve presentations by the lecturers or visiting practitioners, as well as group discussion and review around your practical writing tasks; the third semester is devoted to individual research, which is supervised on an individual basis; the final piece of assessment will allow you to develop either a portfolio of journalistic writings of up to 12,000 words or to pursue a topic about film writing in a dissertation of 15,000 words; the core course provides an introduction to the theoretical study of film journalism, from both historical and contemporary perspectives; the course also offers a key practical component and an introduction to the wide variety of tasks carried out by film journalists.
Optional courses: screen bodies; screen animation; history of critical writing on film and television; music and the moving image; screen adaptations; and aspects of European cinema.
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Sep |
12 months |
Full time | No application date provided |
Glasgow, G12 8QQ |
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£3466 per year |
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Sep |
24 months |
Part-time | No application date provided |
Glasgow, G12 8QQ |
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Research course
University of Glasgow
Film Studies, Journalism (General)

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