Film Studies BA

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The Film Studies degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year.

Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons.

Please note that modules offered are subject to change, depending on staff availability, timetabling, and demand.

Year 1

The first stage familiarises you with the specialised language used in the analysis of film and the way to
study film as a visual and aural art form. It gives you an introduction to the most important movements
and moments in cinema history; provides an introduction to some basic areas of film theory; and begins
to engage with the cross-cultural and transnational exchanges between world cinemas.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits EAF1501Major Debates in Film Theory 30 EAF1503Introduction to Film Analysis30 EAF1504Introduction to Film History 30 EAF1505Transnational Cinemas 30 Year 2

In the second year you will advance your grasp of film knowledge and methods.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits EAF2502Shots in the Dark 30 EAF2508Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity30 Optional modules

Select 60 credits of Film Studies, English or Modern Languages Level 2 optional modules.

You may select HUM2000 Humanities in the Workplace in place of any other level 2, term 1 module.

CodeModuleCredits Film Studies EAF2509European Film Noir30 EAF2510Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture 30 English EAS2026Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-164030 EAS2029Revolutions and Evolutions: Nineteenth Century Writings30 EAS2071Chaucer and His Contemporaries30 EAS2074Introduction to American Literature30 EAS2080Renaissance and Revolution30 EAS2087Creative Writing: Finding a Voice30 EAS2102Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-175030 EAS2103Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-196030 EAS2104Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations30 EAS2105Theatrical Cultures: Renaissance to Restoration30 EAS2106Romanticism30 Modern Languages MLF2065Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates15 MLG2042Ideologies and Identities in German Cinema15 MLI2024Love (and Marriage?)15 College-wide Humanities HUM2000Humanities in the Workplace30 Year 3

The final stage of your degree allows you to pursue your own interests by choosing from a wide array of specialist modules, among them modules on diasporic cinema, cityscapes, and American independent cinema. You will also write a dissertation on a topic of your choice.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits EAS3003Dissertation 30 Optional modules

Select 90 credits of Film Studies Level 3 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits EAF3501American Independent Film30 EAF3504Cityscapes30 EAF3508Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Western Cinema30 EAF3509Diasporic Cinemas30 EAF3513British Screens30 Full module descriptions

For full module descriptions please visit the Film Studies website.