Creative Writing
MODULE: Creative Writing
Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 27 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.
DESCRIPTION:
This program presents simply, clearly, and concisely the fundamentals of all good writing. Offers a step-by-step guide for the development of poetry, fiction, drama, plays, scripts and journalism. Students learn how to probe the secrets of human motivation to create real characters who cause suspense and conflict. Also provides strategies and criteria to help pinpoint the problems in creative writing work and fix them.
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).
Writing Fundamentals & Style
Cinema Language Scene Analysis Narrative Development Theory of Drama & Comedy Script & Screen Writing Creative Writing Creativity Advertising Creativity
Academic Supervisor: Peter A. Muckley
More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.
* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.
* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.
* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.
* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.
* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.
* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.
BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.
Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
Writing Fundamentals & Style
This course provides instruction in grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, elements of composition and essay writing including focus on theme, development of central idea, exposition and argumentation. It shows how to compose clear and concise essays using various expository modes such as definition, exemplification, process, analysis, cause and effect, comparison and contrast. It considers several writing styles and approaches to both literary and non-literary texts.
Instructor: Eduardo Cano Camarero
Cinema Language
The nature and functions of film, including narrative and nonnarrative approaches to film communication. Topics will include: the components of film expression composition, movement, editing, sound, directing, and acting; designs in screen narrative; film's relationship to other arts and media; and its role as an instrument of social reflection and change.
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Scene Analysis
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Narrative Development
This course shows the means of story-telling and integrates practical writer rules with theoretical models based on literary constructions. It explains the construction of a solid narrative combined with the creation of believable, compelling characters who propel that narrative forward. It finally helps to find stories from your own experiences which may inspire dramatic narrative.
Instructor: Peter A. Muckley
Theory of Drama & Comedy
This course focuses on discovering the actions and events that create the structure of a dramatic text and humor. It uses plays by several writers representing various styles. Why do we laugh or cry? What is humor and drama? Why does one person laugh or cry at something when another person doesn't?
Instructor: Peter A. Muckley
Script & Screen Writing
This course explores the art, craft, and business of script writing from theoretical and practical perspectives. It examines the process of screenwriting from concept to character, from opening scene to finished script. It pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay focusing on style and language, format, structure, location and characterization. It presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing scripts.
Instructor: Peter A. Muckley
Creative Writing
This course aims to develop language competence and creative potentials in a variety of genres (fiction, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction). It presents the art and craft of writing, and the procedures for preparing a manuscript for marketing and publication.
Instructor: Peter A. Muckley
Creativity
This course presents the principles of the creative function. It examines the process of idea generation through different techniques such association, brainstorming, sense connecting, closures, opposites, verbal plays, clocks and calendars, personalization's and so on. It shows how to discipline thoughts and ideas according to the creative strategy and communication goals.
Instructor: Carlos Gil Buendía
Advertising Creativity
This course presents the skills in designing an advertising campaign to meet a client's objectives: interpreting a client's brief and preparing a creative strategy using a range of media. Message design is the key element of any marketing communication effort. Creative ideas must be generated and used in the frame of an strategic communication goals perspective.
Instructor: Carlos Gil Buendía
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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.
Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.
