BA Film Studies and English Literature

Year 1

Compulsory Study (120 credits)

• ANALYSING FILM
• LITERATURE IN HISTORY 1
• LITERATURE IN HISTORY II
• STUDIES IN FILM HISTORY
• WHAT IS FILM HISTORY?
• WRITING TEXTS

Year 2

Compulsory Study (40 credits)

• FILM THEORY
• RESEARCHING MEDIA

Option A Study (20 credits)

• ADAPTATION AND TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING
• ANIMATION
• DOCUMENTARY: HISTORY, THEORY, CRITICISM
• FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION
• FILM GENRES
• FILM-STRUCK GIRLS: WOMEN AND BRITISH CINEMA HISTORIES
• RECEPTION STUDIES: HISTORY, THEORY AND TRANSCULTURAL CONTEXTS
• TELEVISION STUDIO PRODUCTION
• THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM
• THEY CAME FROM OUTER-THE-CLOSET: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND PANIC IN AMERICAN FILM

Option B Study (60 credits)

• ADAPTATION: SHAKESPEARE ON STAGE AND SCREEN
• ADVANCED ENGLISH I - B2 CEFR
• ADVANCED ENGLISH II - B2 CEFR
• AUSTEN AND THE BRONTES: READING THE ROMANCE
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC I
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC I (SPRING START)
• BEGINNERS' ARABIC II
• BEGINNERS' CHINESE I
• BEGINNERS' CHINESE I (SPRING START)
• BEGINNERS' CHINESE II
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
• BEGINNERS' FRENCH II - A2 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN I (SPRING START) - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN I - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' GERMAN II - A2 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' GREEK I - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' GREEK II - A2 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' ITALIAN I - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' ITALIAN II - A2 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE I (SPRING START)
• BEGINNERS' JAPANESE II
• BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN I - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' RUSSIAN II - A2 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH I - A1 CEFR (SPRING START)
• BEGINNERS' SPANISH II - A2 CEFR
• COMEDY AND THE ABSURD IN DRAMA
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
• CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
• CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY (SPR)
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE FICTION (SPR)
• CREATIVE WRITING: SCRIPTWRITING (AUT)
• CREATIVE WRITING: SCRIPTWRITING (SPR)
• CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
• DEVISED PERFORMANCE
• EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING
• EUROPEAN LITERATURE
• FROM PUSHKIN TO CHEKHOV: NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN FICTION
• GOODBYE TO BERLIN? LITERATURE AND VISUAL CULTURE IN WEIMAR GERMANY
• I AM
• INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I - A2 CEFR
• INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II - A2/B1 CEFR
• INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I - A2 CEFR
• INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II - A2/B1 CEFR
• INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I - A2 CEFR
• INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II - A2/B1 CEFR
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE I (SPRING START)
• INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE II
• LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
• MEDIEVAL WRITING
• METHOD AND MEISNER
• MODERNISM
• PERFORMANCE SKILLS: THE ACTOR AND THE TEXT
• POLITICAL THEATRE
• PUBLISHING (AUT)
• PUBLISHING (SPR)
• READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
• READING AND WRITING IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
• ROMANTICISM 1780-1840
• SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING: RENAISSANCE AND REVOLUTION
• SHAKESPEARE
• THE DIRECTOR, THE ACTOR AND THE SCRIPT
• THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
• THE WRITING OF HISTORY
• THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
• THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (SPR)
• VICTORIAN WRITING
• WORDS AND IMAGES
• WORKING WITH WORDS
• WRITING THE WILD

Year 3

Compulsory Study (30 credits)

• FILM, TELEVISION AND MEDIA STUDIES DISSERTATION (SPRING)
• FILM, TELEVISION AND MEDIA STUDIES: DISSERTATION (AUTUMN)

Option A Study (30 credits)

• GENDER AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
• INVESTIGATING AUDIENCES: PARTICIPATORY CULTURES AND IMMERSIVE MEDIA
• JAPANESE FILM: NATIONAL CINEMA AND BEYOND
• MAGAZINES
• MEDIA PRACTICE PROJECT (AUTUMN)
• MEDIA PRACTICE PROJECT (SPRING)
• TELEVISION COMEDY

Option B Study (60 credits)

• ADOPTING/ ADAPTING/ UPDATING
• CHARLES DICKENS: BEYOND REALITY
• CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
• CONTEMPORARY DRAMA AND FILM
• CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
• CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE
• CREATIVE WRITING: SCRIPT-WRITING
• DRAMA AND LITERATURE: THE QUESTION OF GENRE
• FEMINIST WRITING
• FROM KAFKA TO SEBALD: ASPECTS OF 20TH CENTURY 'GERMAN' WRITING
• LITERATURE AND DECONSTRUCTION
• LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
• LYRIC
• MADNESS AND MEDICINE: WOMEN'S WRITING IN THE REGENCY
• MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN TRADITIONS
• MEDIEVAL MONSTROSITIES
• MINOR LITERATURES: RESISTANCE, RADICALISATION AND READING
• NERVOUS NARRATIVES
• NEW WORLDS: SCIENCE FICTION AND BEYOND
• QUEER LITERATURE AND THEORY
• SATIRE
• SHAKESPEARE: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
• T.S. ELIOT AND TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY
• THE ART OF EMOTION: LITERATURE, WRITING AND FEELING
• THE ART OF MURDER
• THE CONTESTED PAST: LITERATURE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
• THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
• THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: TRANSLATING LOVE, DEATH AND ADVENTURE
• TRAVEL LITERATURE
• URBAN VISIONS: THE CITY IN LITERATURE AND VISUAL CULTURE
• VIRGIL'S CLASSIC EPIC
• WRITING LIFE: BIOGRAPHY AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION
• WRITING RELIGION IN EARLY-MODERN ENGLAND