Film studies and drama ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your Film Studies and Drama degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

Your first year includes a combination of practice-based and seminar-based modules:

• Approaches and Analysis
• Concepts and History
• London/Culture/Performance
• Power Plays
• Beyond Acting

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

• Culture, Power and Performance
• Group Practical Project

You choose the rest of your modules from a range of seminar and practice-based options that changes each year.

• Brazilian Cinema: The Social Tradition
• Contemporary World Cinemas
• Film Curation
• From Page to Screen
• Introduction to British Cinema
• Research Methods (Film)
• Scriptwriting: Adaption and Original Script
• Action Design
• London Performance Now
• Making Contemporary Theatre
• Naturalism
• Performing Illness and Disability
• Performing Shakespeare
• Race and Racism in Performance

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Choose one from

• Film Studies Research Project
• Practice-based Research Project
• Written Research Project

You choose the rest of your final-year modules from a range of seminar and practice-based options that changes each year.

• Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
• Film Archaeology
• German Narrative Fiction in Text and Film
• Mapping Contemporary Cinemas
• New Independent Indian Cinema
• Slavery, Colonialism and Postcolonialism in African Cinema
• Applied Performance
• Culture, Performance and Globalisation
• Performance and Celebrity
• Performance Composition
• Shakespeare after Shakespeare
• Show Business: Theatre and Capitalism
• Verbatim, Testimonial, Tribunal

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Film Studies and Drama BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules require you to buy books, tickets to performances, films or exhibitions and travel within London. Tickets for Drama modules are free in your first year and, where possible, offered at a discounted rate or subsidised in subsequent years.