MA in Film Studies

at University of Manchester

Course unit details

You will undertake units totalling 180 credits. Core and optional units combine to make 120 credits, with the remaining 60 credits allocated to the dissertation.
 

Following a mandatory first semester of two core units, you are free to shape your course by choosing from a diverse range of options, including established study options within arts, languages and cultures, a directed reading or practice option (enabling you to pursue a specific area of research with the careful supervision of specialist staff), and a work placement option.
 

Study options vary from year to year depending on staff availability.
 

Course unit list

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
 

Title

• Film Theories, Debates and Approaches
• Film Cultures: Research, Industries and Practice
• Screen Acting and Stardom
• Social Lives of Cinema
• Directed Reading (15)
• Directed Reading (15)
• Falstaff and Gandalf: Adapting Fantastic Texts to Film
• Directed Reading (30)
• Directed Reading (30 credits)
• Docufiction Filmmaking

Academic entry qualification overview

We normally expect students to have a First or Upper Second class honours degree or its overseas equivalent in a humanities-based subject area.
 

English language

An overall grade of IELTS 7.0 with 7.0 in writing and no skill below 6.5 is required or 100+ in the TOEFL iBT with a minimum writing score of 25 and no skill below 22.

• MA (full-time)
  
  UK students (per annum): £10,500
  
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £21,000

By teaching and developing a considerable range of transferable skills, this course enables you to keep open a wide range of career options.
 

Previous MA students have gone on to take up PhD study, with many then progressing to academic and teaching careers in further and higher education institutions.
 

Other former students have gone on to work for the BBC, independent television production companies and as festival organisers, as well as in film education and other areas of the film and screen media industry.