Screen Studies Trinity College Dublin

Overview

Screen Studies is offered by Trinity College Dublin. At every step of the way your progress will be informed by an emphasis on critical thinking and creative practice. In addition, the course aims to develop the key transferable skills required for postgraduate study. These include research preparation, time management and oral and written presentation skills.

Key Facts

The M.Phil. in Screen Studies allows students to develop the skills required to write successfully for and about a range of different screens in a critically informed and creative context, supported by the latest developments in gaming and digital content. It comprises 60 ECTS of taught modules and a 30-ECTS research component. The objective of the programme is to prepare graduates who can adapt to an industry that recreates itself regularly around technological advances. Students will select their chosen platform(s) when preparing their portfolio of work  – whether it is creative with feature film or television screenplays, or library-based research work – and bring their writing to industry standard and complete their studies with either a research project screenplay in their chosen area of interest (feature film, television, on-demand broadcast, documentary, or adaptation) or a theoretical and historically informed research project. In addition to the one-year full-time programme, the programme is offered part-time over two years.