Film and Sociology (Placement Year) : BA Hons : PL34

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

Taking Film and Sociology at Lancaster gives you the opportunity to learn from leading academics at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and our Sociology Department.
Film combines particularly well with Sociology because it examines cinema's role as a major contemporary cultural form that influences, reflects and shapes social values and beliefs. 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.
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. You will also be provided with dedicated workshops, 1:1 appointments with careers professionals as well as opportunities to speak with employers here on campus.
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 Sociology. In your second year, your courses include Global Cinema; Understanding Social Thought, and Sociological Research Methods. In your second and third year, you’ll also be able to choose from wide range of options courses, such as Sociology goes to Hollywood, or Imaging the Body.

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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 Sociology graduates have strong research, analytical and communication skills, which open doors in the public and private sectors. Our graduates are highly employable and have a strong track record in finding work, especially in the advertising, arts administration, marketing and media industries.

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

  • Sociology
  • Cinema
  • Media
  • Hollywood
  • Film Studies
  • Documentary Cultures
  • Documentary film
  • Visual culture
  • Viral Video
  • Filmmakers

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
    • Placement Preparation
    • The Sociological Imagination
Year 2

Core

    • Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
    • Skills for researching social and cultural life
    • Understanding Social Thought
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Bodies in Society
    • Critical Reflections
    • Disasters: Why do things go wrong?
    • Documentary Cultures
    • Documentary Film Practice
    • European New Wave Cinema
    • Film and Comic Books
    • Film, Modernism and the Avant Garde
    • Gender, Sexuality and Society
    • Introduction to Sound
    • LICA Work Placement
    • Living with Capitalism: Work and Profit
    • Media & Performance
    • Media and Visual Culture
    • Media in a Global Age
    • Perception and the Arts
    • Viral Video Production
    • Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
Year 4

Core

    • Dissertation
    • Work Based Learning Reflection

Optional

    • Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
    • Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
    • Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
    • Creative Enterprise
    • Film Theory
    • Media in a Global Age
    • Silent Cinema
    • Social Media and Activism
    • Sociology in the Real World
    • Sociology of the Future
    • Violence and Society

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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Oversea fee - £15,680

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