English and film studies ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your English and Film Studies degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1 Compulsory

• Approaches and Analysis
• Concepts and History
• English in Practice
• Reading, Theory and Interpretation: Approaches to the Study of English Literature

• Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century
• Poetry
• Shakespeare

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

1. Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
• Renaissance Literary Culture

2. Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century city
• Romantics and Revolutionaries
• Victorian Fictions

3. Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

• Modernism
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures
• The Long Contemporary

• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
• Black and Asian Writing in Britain
• Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
• Satire, Scandal and Society
• The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
• Women and their writing in the Romantic Period

• Brazilian Cinema: The Social Tradition
• Contemporary World Cinemas
• Film Curation
• From Page to Screen
• Introduction to British Cinema
• Research Methods (Film)
• Scriptwriting: Adaption and Original Script

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

You choose your final year modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

• British Fictions of the 1960s
• Film Archaeology
• German Narrative Fiction in Text and Film
• Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
• Guillotines
• James Joyce's Ulysses
• Mapping Contemporary Cinemas
• New Independent Indian Cinema
• Reading William Blake
• Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
• Slavery, Colonialism and Postcolonialism in African Cinema
• Writing Muslims

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English and Film Studies BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules may require you to buy tickets to shows or exhibitions (often at a discounted rate) as well as pay for travel within London.