Film and Philosophy (Placement Year) : BA Hons : PV36

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s combined Film and Philosophy degree is taught jointly by academics in the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, which is home to 10 philosophers.
Your degree will provide you with the information and theoretical frameworks for understanding films as crucial cultural artefacts. You’ll examine cinema’s aesthetic importance in the context of an increasingly visual and media-oriented culture, while investigating the connections between contemporary art, theatre, music and film. Lancaster’s course is academic rather than vocational, but you will have the opportunity at each year of the programme to make your own digital film using the University’s state-of-the-art equipment.
You’ll be able to select from a wide range of options in both disciplines to complement your compulsory courses, beginning with the core first-year modules Introduction to Film and Introduction to Philosophy. In your second year, your courses include Global Cinema and you’ll complete a Film Dissertation in your third and final year.
You will have the opportunity to spend Year 3 on placement with a public, private or voluntary organisation in the UK or overseas. This experience will boost your employment prospects and will help you to decide on your career direction and the kind of organisation in which you want to work once you graduate. You will be doing a real, responsible job – with all the satisfaction that brings. Our Placements Team will support you in finding and applying for a suitable placement that will support your professional development. Applying for a placement is a competitive process and the preparatory modules you will complete in years one and two are designed to give you the best chance of success in your placement applications.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

Lancaster’s Film and Philosophy graduates have strong research, analytical and communication skills, which open doors in any sector. Our graduates are highly employable and have a strong track record in finding work, especially in areas of advertising, marketing, arts administration and the media industry.

Many alumni go on to follow one of the postgraduate MA degrees offered at Lancaster; undertake vocational postgraduate training in media-related professions such as journalism, or pursue careers in law, computing consultancy, finance and local government.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects Film, Media or one other humanities subject considered desirable but not essential

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Philosophy
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • Media
  • Hollywood
  • Film Studies
  • Documentary Cultures
  • Documentary film
  • Metaphysics

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Introduction to Film Studies
    • Introduction to Philosophy
    • Placement Preparation
Year 2

Core

    • Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Critical Reflections
    • Documentary Cultures
    • Documentary Film Practice
    • Ethics: Theory and Practice
    • European New Wave Cinema
    • Film and Comic Books
    • History of Philosophy
    • International Relations and Security
    • Introduction to Peace Studies
    • Introduction to Sound
    • LICA Work Placement
    • Media & Performance
    • Metaphysics
    • Modern Political Thought
    • Perception and the Arts
    • Philosophical Questions in the Study of Politics and Economics
    • Philosophy of the Mind
    • The Politics of Development
    • The Politics of the European Union
    • The United Kingdom: State, Politics and Policies
    • Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
Year 4

Core

    • Dissertation
    • Work Based Learning Reflection

Optional

    • Aesthetics
    • Africa and Global Politics
    • Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
    • Britain in the World
    • Buddhism and Modernity in Asian Societies
    • China in the Modern World
    • Christianity in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations
    • Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
    • Comparative Politics of the Asia Pacific and the Middle East
    • Constructing Ethics: Christianity and Islam
    • Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
    • Contemporary Issues in Human Rights
    • Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
    • Continental Philosophy
    • Corporations, Global Political Economy and the Law
    • Creative Enterprise
    • Darwinism and Philosophy
    • Dissertation
    • Dissertation with external collaboration
    • Dissertation with field studies
    • Elections, Voters and Political Parties
    • Exploring the Persian Gulf
    • Film Theory
    • Foreign policy of contending powers
    • Future generations
    • Hinduism in the Modern World
    • History of Twentieth Century Philosophy
    • Indian Politics, Society and Religion
    • Indian Religious and Philosophical Thought
    • International Political Economy of Globalization
    • Islam: Tradition, Community and Contemporary Challenges
    • Islamic Politics
    • Logic and Language
    • Media, Religion and Politics
    • Modern Religious and Atheistic Thought
    • New religions and alternative spiritualities
    • Philosophy of Medicine
    • Politics of Cultural Diversity
    • Politics of Global Danger
    • Reading Buddhism
    • Reading Political Theory
    • Religion and politics
    • Religion and Society
    • Religion and Violence
    • Religion in schools
    • Religions in the Modern World
    • Silent Cinema
    • Sound as Practice
    • Special Subject: The Imagination
    • The Ritual and Social Contexts of Spirit Possession
    • Understanding External Intervention in Violent Conflicts

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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