English and Film & TV - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

The course provides you with an exciting opportunity to explore literary studies from the traditional to the contemporary – from Shakespeare to American literature, through to travel writing and modern poetry. You’ll also learn about the film and television industries, how programmes work and other factors that shape the movies and shows you see on screen.

This will allow you to make sense of how literature, film and television convey meaning. You’ll also learn about their audiences, and explore how film and TV function in the age of global corporations and digital media.

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Location

Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

On request

About this course

Our recent English and Film & TV Joint Honours graduates have gone onto careers in:

Local Government – teacher (Secondary English);
JRS – market researcher;
Vision Twentyone – social research interviewer;
Lightdragon Ltd, Food Network UK – content producer; and
Jigsaw Systems – product manager.

Other career areas could include:

publishing;
PR;
marketing;
broadcasting;
screen-writing; and
events management.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you are unsure whether the qualifications you have, or are currently studying for, meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • English
  • Cinema
  • Writing
  • American Literature
  • Poetry
  • Culture
  • Renaissance
  • Literature
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Dissertation

Course programme

Year One
  • Foundations in Literary Studies
  • American Literature: Writing Self and Nation
  • Reading the Screen
  • International Cinemas
Year Two
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • Theorising the Screen
  • Humanities at work
English optional modules
  • Renaissance Literature, 1485-1660: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
  • British Women Writers between the Wars (1918-1939)
  • Romantic Revolutions 1780-1851
  • Writing Works
  • American Topics
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Voices and Visions
Film & TV optional modules
  • British Cinema
  • British Television
  • European Cinema and the City
Year Three
  • Dissertation
  • The Creative Writing Dissertation
  • English and Creative Industries Project
English optional modules
  • Early Modern Poetry and Prose
  • American Specialisms
  • Reading Gender and Sexuality
  • Postcolonial Texts: Narratives of Liberation
  • Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts and Theory
  • Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries
  • Literature in Theory: Writing, Technology, and the World
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Nuclear Literature
Film & TV optional modules
  • American Television since 1950
  • American Cinema since 1949
  • International Cinemas 2
  • European Cinema, Globalisation and Resistance

English and Film & TV - BA (Hons)

Price on request