BA (Hons) Media, Film and Television Studies with Foundation Year
Bachelor's degree
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Description
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
Join us at the University of Wolverhampton to study Film and Television Studies and you’ll explore classical and contemporary broadcasts, while challenging and expanding your understanding of what cinema is, all in the stunning surroundings of a real working cinema, the iconic Light House Media Centre.
Investigating the visual style and aesthetics of cinema and television, you’ll examine how modern audiences engage with a variety of genres, filmmakers and television productions, as well as studying the relationship of film and television to society.
You’ll examine and analyse films and television programmes in depth, learning to use appropriate language for academic writing on film and television.
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You may choose from a wide range of modules in Film and Television Studies including popular film genres such as science fiction, and contemporary television programmes like Scandi-noir productions.
As well as Hollywood spectaculars, you will have the opportunity to study other national cinemas, in particular French, Italian, British, Indian and Iranian, and directors including Hitchcock, Scorsese, Fellini, Truffaut, Nolan, Burton and Kiarostami.
Throughout your three years of study you may choose to follow a production or screenwriting strand, and explore critical approaches to film, such as visual stylistics, narrative theory, storytelling and plot construction as well as the theory behind editing and camera work.
Film and Television Studies classes consist of lectures, often followed by a screening of a film or television programme and a discussion on the work, either in small groups or among the whole class. You will take six modules every year, three before and three after Christmas.
In your second year you have the opportunity to engage in a work placement, and in your final year you can choose either to do a further work placement, or a written project, producing a piece of research for an external organisation. We currently provide local producers and directors with pre-production research, and after-hours film clubs in local schools and colleges. Other placements have involved organising film premières, securing project funding and assisting with scriptwriting and editing.
Several large organisations, such as BBC Birmingham, have continued to provide work placements and we always endeavour to expand our database of placement organisations to include dynamic and innovative local filmmakers. Alternatively you can write a dissertation on a subject of your choice which you are passionate about.
Modules and assessment
There are many forms of assessment:
Essays
Seen and open book examinations
Independent project / dissertation
Annotated bibliography
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Subjects
- Media
- Project
- University
- Cinema
- Film and Television
Course programme
Module: 3HU005
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to the concept of multiculturalism and national identity. It uses texts from a range of humanities based sources but focuses on the philosophical concepts of self and other and traces media reactions to the notion of multiculturalism and identity in the UK, especially in the contemporary era.
Module: 3GK012
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.
Module: 3GK013
Credits: 40
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.
Module: 3GK014
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.
Module: 4FI003
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module focuses on film and television form and visual style. It provides an introduction to the key elements of screen language; which is examined through sections on mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. The module provides the tools for textual analysis of film and television. In addition the module introduces academic skills in constructing bibliographies and in using databases for film and television studies on the internet.
Module: 4MZ009
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the major concepts in the study of media, communication and culture. The module explores how concepts can be applied to enable and enhance understanding of media, communications and culture in a global, digital age.
Module: 4MZ001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the ways in which media, culture and society interact. The module will investigate the context of media production and consumption, as well as identifying the ways in which media texts construct meaning.
Module: 4FI006
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module aims to introduce you to a variety of factual genres encompassing national and trans-national perspectives. As hybridity is seen now as an essential characteristic of factuality, this module analyses the boundaries between fact and fiction in various popular factual formats and examines a variety of critical approaches and perspectives by scholars and practitioners of film and media in relation to the production of documentary and reality TV.
Module: 4FI001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module will introduce students to the devices and concepts of narrative structure in film, and provide models with which to analyse narrative and its various functional elements. We will consider the particular aspects of film narrative, and how these have been drawn from and, in turn, influenced other narrative forms. This will include addressing the processes through which written and graphic text, and dramatic performance, become transferred and adapted into film narrative. These issues will be explored further through a group assessment exercise in which a scene from a short written narrative will be adapted into a scene from a screenplay.
Module: 4FI004
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to a number of theoretical approaches to the academic study of film and television. By studying theories such as authorship, audiences, genres, psychoanalysis and postmodernism you will become acquainted with key concepts that will structure your ongoing studies.
Module: 5FI008
Credits: 20
Period: 3
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module aims to explore and analyse what is meant by & lsquo;representation& rsquo;. It engages with themes and debates concerning the conventional techniques, the effects, and the politics of representation and cinema/television, and uses these tools to analyse the filmic representations of social constructs such as gender, & lsquo;race& rsquo;, class and sexual identity.
Module: 5FI011
Credits: 20
Period: 3
...BA (Hons) Media, Film and Television Studies with Foundation Year
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Limperts Academy of Design
Course Distance LearningPrice on request -
Kingston University London
Master Distance Learning£ 8,000 -
Weymouth College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Walsall College
BTEC West Midlands / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
The Media School - Bournemouth Uni
Master OnlinePrice on request -
City College Norwich
BTEC OnlinePrice on request -
Canterbury College
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