BA English and Film & Television Studies
About this course
BA in English and Film & Television Studies, an English and Film Studies degree centred on the critical and creative exploration of literary and screen media. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students benefit from campus facilities such as special literary collections, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, and a digital humanities laboratory. The first year establishes foundational perspectives through compulsory study in Major Debates in Film Theory, Interrogating Screens, and Beginnings: English Literature before 1800, alongside optional modules like Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry, The Novel, The Poem, Academic English, Rethinking Shakespeare, and Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing. The second year expands the curriculum through diverse optional choices spanning literature and screen cultures, including Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640, Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England, Chaucer and His Contemporaries, Renaissance and Revolution, Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750, Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings, Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960, Romanticism, Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture, Creative Writing: Building a Story, Creative Writing: Making a Poem, British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar, Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres, Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future, Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory, Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World, Script Craft: Writing for Screen and Stage, Shots in the Dark, Television: Times, Trends and Technologies, Scrublands, Sanctuary, Screens: Co-creating Knowledges alongside Donkeys, Fanatical: Fan Culture and Identity, World Cinemas: Representations, Histories, Conflicts, and World Cinemas: Contexts, Environments, Industries.
Modules
- Major Debates in Film Theory
- Interrogating Screens
- Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
- Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry
- The Novel
- The Poem
- Academic English
- Rethinking Shakespeare
- Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
- Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640
- Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England
- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Renaissance and Revolution
- Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750
- Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings
- Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960
- Romanticism
- Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Creative Writing: Building a Story
- Creative Writing: Making a Poem
- British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory
- Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World
- Script Craft: Writing for Screen and Stage
- Shots in the Dark
- Television: Times, Trends and Technologies
- Scrublands, Sanctuary, Screens: Co-creating Knowledges alongside Donkeys
- Fanatical: Fan Culture and Identity
- World Cinemas: Representations, Histories, Conflicts
- World Cinemas: Contexts, Environments, Industries