English and film studies ba (hons)
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Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
Teaching
Teaching and learning
You'll receive approximately 10 hours of weekly contact time, in the form of lectures and seminars. Modules may also include field trips, tutorials and workshops. You also attend regular timetabled film screenings.
For every hour spent in class, you'll complete a further four to six hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of exams and coursework, often in the form of essays but sometimes as extended projects, presentations, log books and portfolios.
Resources and facilities
The Schools offer excellent on-campus and London-based resources to aid your studies, including:
access to Senate House Library and the British Library – the most important intellectual resources in London
our state-of-the-art 41-seater cinema
a large range of professional and broadcast-standard production and post-production equipment, including a film production suite, two film studios with professional lighting grids, two edit suites, and motion capture equipment
opportunities to meet and network with publishers, curators, archivists, poets, novelists, activists and filmmakers
proximity to specialist archives and collections such as the BFI National Archive, Poetry Library, Women’s Library, National Art Library and the Warburg Institute
opportunities to write, edit and publish for student newspapers and magazines.
Facilities
Location
Start date
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Reviews
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Course rating
Recommended
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Subjects
- Production
- Poetry
- Writing
- Cinema
- Art
- Teaching
- English
- Film Studies
Course programme
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.
Modules may include- 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.
English and film studies ba (hons)