English with Film Studies BA

at King's College London

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 1

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules

English
 

• Reading Poetry (15 credits)

In addition, you are required to take five of the following 15 credit English modules:
 

• Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature (15 credits)

• Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credits)

• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)

• Introduction to American Literature (15 credits)

• Medieval Literary Culture (15 credits)

• Writing London (15 credits)

Film studies

You are required to take the following modules:
 

• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms (15 credits)

• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts (15 credits)

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 2

Required modules

You are required to do the following modules

English

The department operates a banding system in the second year, to broaden horizons and ensure a balanced programme of study.
 

• Band 1: Literature up to 1800 and English Language

• Band 2: Literature 1800 – present

You are required to take a minimum of three Band 1 modules during your second year. At least one of these must be a Band 1 Medieval option.

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 3

Required modules
 

Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take modules from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

English

You are required to take 90 credits from a range of modules that may typically include the following 15 credit modules. You may also choose to take a 30-credit dissertation in place of two 15 credit optional modules:
 

• Activist Texts: Literature And Politics, 1910-1938

• Advanced Fiction Workshop

• Afro-Gothic Literature

• Austen in Context (15 credits)

• Beowulf (15 credits)

• Black and Asian Writing in Britain

• Chaucer’s Books (15 credits)

• Coming of Age in America

• Critically Queer (15 credits)

• Figurations of Conspiracy (15 credits)

• Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps (15 credits)

• James Joyce and Ulysses (15 credits)

• Literature and Media (15 credits)

• The Life of the Sonnet (15 credits)

• Multi-Ethnic American Modernisms (15 credits)

• Performance Philosophy (15 credits)

• Raw Victorians: Race, Environment and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Shakespeare’s London (15 credits)

• Science, Nature and Performance (15 credits)

• Testimony: The Holocaust and Rwanda (15 credits)

• Vernacular Theory (15 credits)

• Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Reading (15 credits)

• Study and Struggle: global revolutionary thought and practice

Film Studies

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of modules that may typically include the following 15 credit modules:
 

• American Underground Cinema (15 credits)

• Cinema & Social Formations (15 credits)

• Film Genre: Hollywood Musical (15 credits)

• Documentary in the Twenty-First Century (15 credits)

• Film Noir (15 credits)

• Film & Religion (15 credits)

• Film & Architecture (15 credits)

• Stardom and Performance (15 credits)

• New Waves in East Asian Cinema (15 credits)

• Film Festivals & Film Festival Studies (15 credits)

• Film and Popular Music

• Women Directors

• The Biopic: Historical Lives & Biographical Screen Practices (15 credits)

• Cinema and the Non-human

• The Carnal Screen