BA (Hons) Media, Film and Television

Year 1

MED1204 Understanding Visual Cultures (20 credits)

MED1207 Media and Society (20 credits)

You will select four of the following modules. If you wish to join the Practice route of this degree, you must study MED1208 Moving Image Production.

FLM1011 How to Read a Film: Sound and Image (20 credits)

FLM1013 World Cinemas: Europe (20 credits)

FLM1014 How to Read a Film: Approaches (20 credits)

FLM1016 World Cinemas: Beyond Europe (20 credits)

MED1040 Digital Photography (20 credits)

MED1200 Scriptwriting (20 credits)

MED1202 Sound for Picture (20 credits)

MED1208 Moving Image Production (20 credits)

MED1414 Hold the Front Page (20 credits)

MED1417 Film and Television History and Contexts (20 credits)

MED1421 Studying Television: Storytelling and Style (20 credits)

MED1425 What is Animation? History and Context (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of one of the optional modules above.

Year 2

MED2082 Creative Research Methods and Professional Ethics (20 credits)

MED2201 Cultural Representations and the Media (20 credits)

You will select four of the following modules. On the Practice route of the degree, you will study MED2205 Welcome to the Real World: Documentary Production, MED2209 Digital Shorts and two additional options.

FLM2031 Realism and the Cinema (20 credits)

FLM2034 Identity and Representation (20 credits)

FLM2035 Censorship and the Cinema (20 credits)

MED2083 Thinking Photography (20 credits)

MED2205 Welcome to the Real World: Documentary Production (20 credits)

MED2209 Digital Shorts (20 credits)

MED2214 Media Genres and Narrative Theory (20 credits)

MED2215 Analysing Audiences (20 credits)

MED2217 Fact to Fiction: Key Debates (20 credits)

MED2258 History on Screen (20 credits)

MED2270 Analysing Film and Television (20 credits)

MED2272 Transmedia Storytelling (20 credits)

MED2285 Writing for the Media (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of the optional module choice above.

Year 3

You will select one of the following modules:

MED3209 Independent Production (40 credits)

MED3225 Dissertation (40 credits)

You will select four of the following modules:

FLM3022 Cinema and National Identity (20 credits)

FLM3023 Cult Cinema (20 credits)

FLM3026 Non-Western Cinema Case Study (20 credits)

MED3058 Media Policy and Political Communication (20 credits)

MED3205 Identities and Creative Citizenship (20 credits)

MED3207 Global Convergence: Film and Television Drama in the 21st Century (20 credits)

MED3208 Media Futures (20 credits)

MED3232 Television: Form and Engagement (20 credits)

MED3234 American Independent Cinema (20 credits)

MED3235 Contemporary European Cinema (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.