MA English and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: CCC (The recommended subject is English) IB: 28 points, including 5, 5, 4 at higher level Higher / Advanced Higher, SQA (standard): BBBC (There are no essential subjects for level 1 entry).
About this course
MA (Hons) in English and Film Studies, bringing together literary criticism and film analysis. Core topics include research methods and design and creative practice. Applied language modules in French or Spanish are available as part of the programme, and an optional internship provides work placement experience. Teaching takes place through lectures, seminars, and film screenings, with access to the University of Dundee Archives' film script collection.
Modules
- Humanities in Practice
- Introduction to Literary Study
- Reading the Screen: An Introduction to Film Studies
- Approaches to Reading
- Applied French 1A (Beginner)
- Applied French 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied French 1B (Beginner)
- Applied French 1B (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1A (Beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1B (Intensive)
- Applied Spanish 1B (non-beginner)
- Career Planning Module Online
- Internship
- Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Literature in Context
- Literature and Society
- National Cinemas Post-1945
- Practicing Creative Writing
- Gender, Sexuality, Culture
- Multi Ethnic American Fiction
- The Pictured Page: Literature to Comics
- The African Novel
- Theoretical Perspectives on Film
- Reading and Writing Short Stories: Learning from the American Tradition
- American Literature
- Film Art
- Science Fiction in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
- Writing Poetry
- Literature in Theory
- Mediterranean Literature
- The Writer in the World
- Creative Practice Dissertation
- English Dissertation
- Transatlantic Modernism
- Romanticism in Literature and Film
- Contemporary Scottish Literature
- The Gothic Tradition
- Writing the Environment
- Forms of Love
- Adapting Nineteenth-Century Classics
- From Final Draft to Final Cut
- Final Draft: Screenwriting in Theory and Practice