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Advanced creative writing develops your writing ability by widening your generic range and developing your knowledge of style. You’ll explore how some of these scriptwriting skills might enhance your prose style, improve your writing skills across the range of forms, and further develop your individual writing style and voice.
This material forms part of the course A363, Creative Writing
How humans think, develop, and experience the world around us has been fascinating psychologists for over 100 years. Using a historical and biographical framework, this course introduces you to a wide range of psychological approaches, including biological, social, and cognitive psychologies.
This series of tracks examines the psychology of relationships, mind control and imagination.
Material is taken from The Open University course DSE212 Exploring Psychology
Have you ever thought of writing a play? This course will help you develop the necessary skills, so you will be able to tell a story on stage, fully realising the potentials of the medium. This course should appeal to everyone interested in dramatic writing or creative writing, but also to those seeking to strengthen transferable writing skills.
This material is taken from The Open Univerity Course A174 Start Writing Fiction
This innovative course explores how social worlds are made, offering you an insight into the sociological approaches that can be applied to understanding everyday experience. Social worlds need to create security, produce attachment between individuals, and regulate conduct. The course considers how these needs are met through topics including immigration, medicine, family, money and reality television.
This material is taken from The Open University course DD308 Making Social Worlds