English Literature and Film BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Winchester

£ 27,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Winchester

The programme draws on the research interests and expertise of staff with subject-specific and strong interdisciplinary backgrounds. You develop sophisticated skills in analysis, expression, argumentation and presentation in both subject-specific and interdisciplinary ways, all of which are preparatory to success in future employment.In Year 1, you acquire relevant subject knowledge, critical approaches and key skills. These are developed in Years 2 and 3 alongside the integration of film and literature studies and enhanced research skills to allow you to work in both independent and informed ways at advanced levels of study.In Year 2, in addition to the mandatory requirements, you must take at least two Film Studies and two English Literature optional modules. In Year 3 you must choose three film and three English optional modules.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Winchester (Hampshire)
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University Of Winchester, SO22 4NR

Start date

On request

About this course

Our aim is to shape 'confident learners' by enabling you to develop the skills needed to excel in your studies here and as well as onto further studies or the employment market.You are taught primarily through a combination of lectures and seminars, allowing opportunities to discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures in smaller groups.In addition to the formally scheduled contact time such as lectures and seminars etc.), you are encouraged to access academic support from staff within the course team, your personal tutor and the wide range of services available to you within the University.Independent learningOver the duration of your course, you will be expected to develop independent and critical learning, progressively building confidence and expertise through independent and collaborative research, problem-solving and analysis with the support of staff. You take responsibility for your own learning and are encouraged to make use of the wide range of available learning resources available.Overall workloadYour overall workload consists of class contact hours, independent learning and assessment activity.While your actual contact hours may depend on the optional modules you select, the following information gives an indication of how much time you will need to allocate to different activities at each level of the course .Year 1 (Level 4): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 264 hours Independent learning: 936 hoursYear 2 (Level 5): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 252 hours Independent learning: 936 hours Placement: 12 hoursYear 3 (Level 6): Timetabled teaching and learning activity* Teaching, learning and assessment: 240 hours Independent...

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Subjects

  • Shakespeare
  • Cinema
  • Film Studies
  • English

Course programme

Year 1

Core modules:

  • Introduction to English Studies
  • Critical Reading 1
  • Reading Film
  • Film Criticism
  • Critical Reading 2
  • Early English Texts and Contexts
  • Film Form, History and Culture
  • Understanding Horror Film

Year 2

Core modules:

  • Literary Adaptations for Film and Television
  • Approaches to Film
  • Researching Film Studies

Optional modules:

  • Contemporary European Cinema
  • Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • Music and Film
  • Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • Cinema, Politics and Society
  • B-Movies
  • Gangster and Crime Film
  • British Cinema - Comedy, Realism and the Imaginary
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • The American Film Western
  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
  • Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
  • Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
  • The Modern Age
  • Chaucer and His World
  • Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
  • Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
  • Victorian Fictions
  • British Literature in the Age of Reason 1688-1743
  • Literature in the Shadow of Revolution1745-1775-1789
  • Gothic and Romantic Fiction
  • Postcolonial Fictions
  • The Postmodern Age
  • American Science Fiction
  • Volunteering for Film Studies
  • Volunteering for English
Year 3

Core modules:

  • English and Film Dissertation (Extended Independent Study)

Optional modules:

  • Authorship and Film
  • Stars
  • Film and the City
  • National Cinemas I
  • Animation
  • Cult Film and Art Cinema
  • Discontent Down Under: Gender, Racism, Change and Loss in Australian Cinema
  • Film and Reality: Modernity, Modernism and Postmodernism
  • Gothic Film
  • Killer Films
  • The Shakespeare Phenomenon
  • Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth-Century
  • Biography and the Body
  • William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
  • Twentieth-Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
  • Consumer Culture
  • Jewish Identities
  • Keywords
  • Literature, Sexuality and Morality
  • The City in American

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.

English Literature and Film BA (Hons)

£ 27,750 VAT inc.