Centre of Excellence – Science Fiction Writing Diploma Course

The Science Fiction Writing Diploma Course introduces the style of science fiction and the broader style of speculative fiction, the historical past and future of science fiction, and its tropes, niches and subgenres.

All through the course, you’ll develop a chunk of science fiction writing – studying the best way to organise, develop and refine your concepts as you go alongside. The course blends principle and sensible workout routines, supplying you with loads of alternatives to jot down, and develop and play with concepts till you could have a working story.

Worldbuilding is a large half of any science fiction challenge, and the Science Fiction Writing Diploma Course will information you step-by-step by the method of making a novum, a world for it to exist in, and the characters to discover it. You’ll construct a narrative utilizing one of a number of constructions widespread inside science fiction and start to jot down scenes set on the planet you could have created.

You’ll additionally have a look at methods that may make it easier to to enhance your writing. As you develop your story, you’ll study to grasp tempo, construction, and completely different writing expertise to assist your novel succeed. You’ll additionally learn to form and edit your story.

By finding out this course, you’ll:

• Acquire a deeper information of science fiction
• Work by yourself novel – constructing expertise as you progress by the course
• Full workout routines that may get you writing and deepen your comprehension of key writing theories
• Discover methods designed to enhance writing
• Have the ability to create plausible worlds and characters
• Study to grasp tempo, construction, and completely different writing expertise

Module 1: What’s Science Fiction?
7 elements

Module 2: Subgenres of Science Fiction
5 elements

Module 3: Parts of Science Fiction
6 elements

Module 4: Worldbuilding I — The Novum
6 elements

Module 5: Worldbuilding II — Who, What, When, The place?
6 elements

Module 6: Creating Characters
6 elements

Module 7: Story Construction
6 elements

Module 8: Beginnings
5 elements

Module 9: The Center
5 elements

Module 10: The Finish
6 elements

The Science Fiction Writing Diploma Course will take as much as 150 hours to finish, working from residence. There isn’t a time restrict for finishing this course; it may be studied in your individual time at your individual tempo.

This can be a Degree 3 course and gives you 150 CPD (Continued Skilled Improvement) factors.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you obtain 2 certificates. A certificates from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificates displaying the quantity of CPD factors earned from the course.

This course is endorsed by the High quality Licence Scheme. Due to this fact, upon profitable completion of this course, learners can even obtain a certificates of achievement from High quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Abstract, which lists the small print of all of the items the learner has accomplished as half of the course. (This certificates is non-compulsory and prices a further £25).

The High quality Licence Scheme is a component of the Expertise and Schooling Group, a charitable organisation that unites schooling and expertise-oriented organisations that share related values and aims. With greater than 100 years of collective expertise, the Expertise and Schooling Group’s strategic partnerships create alternatives to tell, affect and signify the broader schooling and expertise sector.

The Expertise and Schooling Group additionally contains two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Expertise and Schooling Group Awards and Expertise and Schooling Group Entry. Via their awarding organisations they’ve developed a repute for offering excessive-high quality {qualifications} and assessments for the schooling and expertise sector. They’re dedicated to serving to employers, organisations and learners domesticate the related expertise for studying, expertise for employment, and expertise for all times.

Their information and expertise of working inside the awarding sector permits them to work with coaching suppliers, by the High quality Licence Scheme, to assist them develop excessive-high quality programs and/or coaching programmes for the non-regulated market.