Year 1
You will acquire foundation knowledge in both English and Film Studies. You will learn about the most popular modes of literature and the predominant styles in film.
Modules
- Reading Film
- Introduction to Film History 1
- The Novel Around the World
- American Film and Visual Culture
- Film and Art: Academic Practice and the Workplace
- Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Year 2
During your film modules you will explore national and transnational cinemas, and work in groups to create your own short video. You will add a new dimension to your English education by studying the critical theories that have developed in response to literature and provide possible explanations of our relationship with art.
Modules
- Researching World Cinemas
- Film Production
- Documentary Film and Television
- Film, Reception and Consumption
- Critical Perspectives 2 (double module)
Plus either Chaucer’s Worlds (double module) or Renaissance Literature B (double module)
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Year Abroad (optional)
We’ll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.
Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur – you will find the experience invaluable.
For more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.
Final Year (Film Studies Dissertation)
During your final year you will research and write a dissertation on an area of Film Studies that most fascinates you. The rest of your learning will be entirely decided by you. A wide range of option modules will allow you to tailor your degree according to your interests and our expertise.
Core module
Option modules
Choose 3 option modules from lists labelled A, plus 2 option modules from lists labelled B. You must choose at least one of the modules marked * and at least one of the modules marked **. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules or both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules. Overall, at least 3 modules should be from the English lists.
Film Studies A
- Seriality: Film, Television and Other Media
- Contemporary European Cinema
- Contemporary Hollywood
- New Chinese Cinemas
- Hitchcock and Film History
- Film and Art Journalism
English A
- Romanticism: Revolutionary Writing from Blake to Shelley*
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A*
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray (double module)*
- Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
- Feminist Fiction
- Church and State in Medieval Literature
- Writing Voices
- Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
- English Around the World
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- Advanced Old English Language
- Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
- Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
- Writing Prose Fiction
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Multilingual and Multicultural Communities
Film Studies B
- Screen Gothic
- Screen Affect
- Women in Cinema
- Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
- British Popular Culture Since 1945
- Norms and Margins in French Cinema
- The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
- Spanish Horror Cinema
English B
- Modern Literature**
- Postcolonial Literature**
- Rewriting Britain (double module)**
- Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
- American Autobiography and American Literature
- Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
- Representing the Holocaust
- Modern European Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Understanding Screenplays
- Tragedy
- Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
- Writing for Laughs
- Language, Power and Persuasion
- Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Final Year (English Dissertation)
Core module
Option modules
Choose 4 option modules from the lists labelled A, plus 2 option modules from the lists labelled B. You must choose at least one of the modules marked * and at least one of the modules marked **. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules or both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules. Overall, at least 3 modules should be from the Film Studies lists.
Film Studies A
- Seriality: Film, Television and Other Media
- Contemporary European Cinema
- Contemporary Hollywood
- New Chinese Cinemas
- Hitchcock and Film History
- Film and Art Journalism
English A
- Romanticism: Revolutionary Writing from Blake to Shelley*
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A*
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray (double module)*
- Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
- Feminist Fiction
- Church and State in Medieval Literature
- Writing Voices
- Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
- English Around the World
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- Advanced Old English Language
- Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
- Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
- Writing Prose Fiction
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Multilingual and Multicultural Communities
Film Studies B
- Screen Gothic
- Screen Affect
- Women in Cinema
- Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
- British Popular Culture Since 1945
- Norms and Margins in French Cinema
- The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
- Spanish Horror Cinema
English B
- Modern Literature**
- Postcolonial Literature**
- Rewriting Britain (double module)**
- Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
- American Autobiography and American Literature
- Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
- Representing the Holocaust
- Modern European Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Understanding Screenplays
- Tragedy
- Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
- Writing for Laughs
- Language, Power and Persuasion
- Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
