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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)

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The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) is Australia's leading undergraduate degree in screenwriting, offering comprehensive training in cinematic, television, and digital storytelling. Students develop industry-standard scripts, collaborate on projects, and gain critical and creative skills for professional screenwriting.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
3 - 3 years full-time
Course Code
B-FASCWRI
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb

About this course

Course overviewOverview

Honours is available for this course

The Screenwriting specialisation is designed for those who have the desire and talent to write audience-driven stories for the screen.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) is the premier screenwriting undergraduate degree in Australia. You will study the many facets of screenwriting through lectures, classes, screenings and practice-based exercises. The course covers:

  • Cinematic and television writing
  • Writing for the youth market
  • Adaptation
  • Writing for games
  • Web content.

You will gain industry expertise while developing your original voice and learn to write audience-driven stories for the screen. Housed in the VCA's department of Film and Television, this degree lives alongside other degrees in directing and producing for live-action fiction, animation and documentary.

In your final year, you will also collaboratively develop and write an original web series to be directed by Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) students. At the end of three years you'll be equipped to write professionally for screen media, having acquired essential creative and technical skills such as generating and adapting stories for screen platforms, presenting work at a professional standard, giving and receiving constructive feedback and working in creative teams.

Breadth subjects at each year level enable you to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, accessing multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities for you to investigate and develop new interests.

You will
  • Develop your writing style for screen productions (film, television, gaming and online)
  • Write an industry standard script for a short film or television pilot
  • Acquire ability to critically and constructively critique your own and peers' work in the context of the broader history of screen culture.

Study locations

Southbank

What you will learn

  • Develop your writing style for screen productions (film, television, gaming and online)
  • Write an industry standard script for a short film or television pilot
  • Acquire ability to critically and constructively critique your own and peers' work in the context of the broader history of screen culture.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Creative Arts courses at University of Melbourne.
74.6%
Overall satisfaction
77.4%
Skill scale
71.2%
Teaching scale
47.3%
Employed full-time
$52.2k
Average salary