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BA History and Film Studies

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Bachelor's degree

In Norwich

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Discover how historical events have been reconstructed through visual media!

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Norwich

The BA Film and History degree is an innovative degree programme combining these two interlinking subjects, offering opportunities for practical experience in film-making and archival research.

This degree allows you to explore world history alongside the history of film, reflecting on how historical events have been recorded and reconstructed through visual media.

You’ll be able to choose from a wide range of options across the two subjects, covering topics from Anglo-Saxon England to the Cold War, film noir to international animation.

Specially-designed modules bring your two degree subjects into dynamic dialogue, examining areas such as propaganda and documentary. You’ll also have access to resources like our on-campus television studio and the unique holdings at the East Anglian Film Archive.

Students develop many transferable skills on this degree, including high-level research and communication skills, team working, and self-management, all of which open up a wide variety of careers.

Your degree in Film and History begins with a year of compulsory modules designed to give you a broad understanding of the scholarly connections between the fields of Film Studies and History.

As your degree progresses, you will have more optional modules, allowing you to build a degree that suits your aims and aspirations while attaining a deep understanding of both subjects. The final year also contains a dissertation, which is a project about film and history that you get to design.

Across your degree, you will take part in screenings, lectures, seminars, practical workshop sessions and tutorials to help you learn a range of skills and get ready for a wide range of possible careers.

You will also have a Personal Advisor, an academic staff member who can give you specific advice about the modules you choose, give you pastoral support, and help you with careers advice.

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Location

Start date

Norwich (Norfolk)
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University Of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ

Start date

On request

About this course


2018/9A Level ABB including History (or another History related subject).International Baccalaureate 32 points overall including 5 in HL History. If no GCSE equivalent is held, offer will include Mathematics and English requirements.Scottish Highers Only accepted in combination with Scottish Advanced Highers.Scottish Advanced Highers ABB including History or another History based subject. A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable .Irish Leaving Certificate 4 subjects at H2, and 2 subjects at H3 including History or a related...

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Reviews

4.7
excellent
  • Had major problems while studying.
    |
  • If you are capable of orienting yourself in any kind of culture and living environment then it's really helps you in knowing about the place you stay .
    |
  • I am from Italy and I found really easy to fit into UEA. Courses are pretty interesting, lecturers are very competent --they teach with enthusiasm.
    |
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4.6
excellent

Course rating

Recommended

Centre rating

Student

5.0
26/03/2019
About the course: Had major problems while studying.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Wolfgang G. Schafferer

4.0
09/10/2018
What I would highlight: If you are capable of orienting yourself in any kind of culture and living environment then it's really helps you in knowing about the place you stay .
What could be improved: I loved it.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Sara

4.5
19/01/2018
What I would highlight: I am from Italy and I found really easy to fit into UEA. Courses are pretty interesting, lecturers are very competent --they teach with enthusiasm.
What could be improved: .
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Former Student

5.0
30/07/2017
What I would highlight: The BA in History and Film studies guides you through decades of history along with its effects on media. I found it extremely interesting and complete. I recommend it to anyone who wants to focus on history and linked it with films.
What could be improved: Nothing.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Former Student

5.0
30/07/2017
What I would highlight: This bachelor’s degree combines my two biggest passions: history and films. The course is really well organized and touches a wide range of subjects, for example, it goes from American writing to Japanese films. I really recommended it.
What could be improved: Nothing.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Katie

4.5
14/04/2017
What I would highlight: It’s been really good to make lots of great friends. Only sorting next years housing has been an issue but in general amazing first year.
What could be improved: .
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • Beginners French
  • Beginners Spanish
  • Sign language
  • Staff
  • Options
  • Animation
  • English
  • Film Studies
  • Film and Television
  • Cinema
  • International
  • University
  • Media
  • World History
  • Production

Course programme


Year 1

Compulsory Study (120 credits)

  • ANALYSING FILM
  • HISTORY, CONTROVERSY AND DEBATE
  • INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
  • STUDIES IN FILM HISTORY
  • VISUAL(ISING) HISTORY
  • WHAT IS FILM HISTORY?


Year 2

Compulsory Study (40 credits)

  • PROPAGANDA
  • RESEARCHING MEDIA

Option A Study (40 credits)

  • ANIMATION
  • DOCUMENTARY: HISTORY, THEORY, CRITICISM
  • FILM GENRES
  • FILM THEORY
  • FILM-STRUCK GIRLS: WOMEN AND BRITISH CINEMA HISTORIES
  • RECEPTION STUDIES: HISTORY, THEORY AND TRANSCULTURAL CONTEXTS
  • THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM

Option B Study (40 credits)

  • AMERICA IN THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
  • ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 500-1066
  • BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
  • CONSPIRACY AND CRISIS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
  • EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE: WARRIORS, SAINTS AND RULERS
  • FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE EPOQUE
  • FROM AGINCOURT TO BOSWORTH: ENGLAND IN THE WARS OF THE ROSES
  • FROM HASTINGS TO THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR: NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND 1066-1307
  • FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
  • HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
  • HISTORY OF MODERN ITALY
  • HISTORY OF NORWICH
  • HUMAN RIGHTS: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA
  • IMPERIAL RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY, 1861-1945
  • JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
  • LATER MEDIEVAL EUROPE
  • LATIN FOR HISTORIANS
  • MODERN GERMANY, 1914-1990
  • NAPOLEON TO STALIN: THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
  • PROPAGANDA
  • REFORMATION TO REVOLUTION
  • STUART ENGLAND
  • THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1857-1956
  • THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
  • THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
  • THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
  • THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 4000BC TO 1066AD
  • THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH POWER
  • TUDOR ENGLAND
  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
  • WOMEN, POWER AND POLITICS II, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE TO NANCY ASTOR
  • WOMEN, POWER, AND POLITICS (I): ISABEL OF CASTILE TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT


Year 3

Compulsory Study (60 credits)

  • CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
  • 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
  • NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING AND FILM
  • NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING AND FILM
  • TELEVISION COMEDY

Option B Study (30 credits)

  • DOING HISTORY DIGITALLY
  • FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
  • FROM VICTORY TO DEFEAT: DEFENDING BRITAINS EMPIRE 1919-1942
  • GLOBAL APPETITES: SUGAR AND SPICE AND COFFEE AND RICE
  • GLOBAL COMMUNITY: INTERNATIONALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
  • GRAND STRATEGY
  • MIRACLES TO MARVELS: TRAVELLERS FROM MEDIEVAL EUROPE TO THE MODERN WORLD
  • ROBIN HOOD: THE MEDIEVAL OUTLAW IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
  • RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905-1921
  • SLAVERY IN THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLD
  • STRUCTURES OF DAILY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, C 500-1300
  • THE CRUSADES
  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
  • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
  • THE JAPANESE EMPIRE
  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
  • VICTORIAN UNDERWORLDS
  • YOUTH IN MODERN EUROPE

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BA History and Film Studies

£ 9,250 VAT inc.