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Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting

UTS course code: C11066
Testamur title: Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting
Abbreviation: GradCertScrWrt
Course fee: $166.67 per cp (local)1
Total credit points: 24

Footnotes:
1. This course is not available to international students.

Course aims
Admission requirements
Course duration
Course structure
Course program

Course aims

Students completing the Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting will have:

  • both general and specific skills in screenwriting
  • the opportunity to develop their screenwriting skills intensively
  • some critical knowledge of cultural and aesthetic debates
  • an ability to develop and critically revise their own work, and
  • an awareness of the place of writing within contemporary cultural formations.

Admission requirements

To gain entry to this course an applicant must demonstrate a satisfactory level of education, background and capability. It is expected that applicants will have an undergraduate degree and/or professional or creative experience in the field and that they will have demonstrated a satisfactory level of interest and knowledge in the area of in screenwriting.

Course duration

This course is offered part time over two semesters. Students must commence in Autumn semester.

Course structure

50359 Screenwriting 8cp
50309 Advanced Screenwriting 8cp
57101 Writing for the Camera 8cp

Course program

Typical part-time program

Autumn semester
50359 Screenwriting 8cp

Spring semester
50309 Advanced Screenwriting 8cp
57101 Writing for the Camera 8cp