BA English & Film
Entry requirements
Scottish Higher: Standard Entry Requirement: ABBB including English or literary subject. Minimum Offer Entry Requirement: BBBC including English or literary subject. A level: BBC including English or literary subject. Irish Leaving Certificate: H2, H2, H2, H3 at HL including English or literary subject. BTEC Extended Diploma: Minimum grades DMM (Distinction, Merit, Merit) in a related subject, plus A Level English or literary subject at Grade C. IB: Award of Diploma with 29 points overall with three HL subjects at grades 6,5,5 including English or literary subject. HNC: Pass HNC in Media and Communications, Creative Industries: Media and Communication, Practical Journalism or Creative Industries: Television with grade B in the graded unit. T Level: Grade Merit T Level must be completed in a English/literary subject or A Level English/literary subject may be required. Please contact ugadmissions@napier.ac.uk to check if you meet the subject specific requirements. *Literary subjects: Modern Studies, History, Psychology, RMPS, Latin, Sociology, Theology, Media Studies, Politics, Classics, Philosophy, Geography, A Level Government and Politics, A Level Classical Civilisation, A Level Drama
About this course
This BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies examines literature and cinema across historical and cultural contexts. Core topics include social and cultural analysis. The programme includes options for a work placement or study abroad at a partner university. The degree focuses on critical analysis and theory rather than practical film-making.
Modules
- Literature and Adaptation
- Reading Texts: Analysing Film, Literature and Culture
- Introduction to Literary Studies: Text and Context
- Critical Contexts: Introduction to Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
- 18th and 19th-Century Texts and Contexts
- Screen Time: Critical Approaches to Narrative, Form and Genre
- The Modern Novel
- Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
- Modernism at the Movies
- From the Colonial to the Postcolonial
- American Outlaws: Modern American Writing
- Creative Writing: Finding your Voice
- Generation Television: US Complex TV 1990 - Present
- World Cinema
- Fantasy Fiction and Film
- C21 Literature: Writing the Unfolding Present
- Cultural and Literary Theory: Debates and Application
- Women's Writing and Film-making
- Creative Writing: Genre Writing
- Narratives of Nature
- Unacknowledged Legislators: Poets in History and Society
- Modernisms in the magazines and at the margins
- Bloody Bodies: Violence in Early Modern Drama
- Cultural Heritage: Narratives and Memorialisation
- Science Fiction: Genres and Criticism
- Asian Cinema
- Film and Sustainability
- Comics and Culture
- The Gothic Tradition
- Crime in Text and Film
- Modern Scottish Fiction
- Fictions of Terror: From Dynamite Violence to Media Spectacle
- The First World War in Culture: 1914 to the present
- Utopia, Dystopia and the Global Political Imagination
- Migration, Literature and Decolonisation
- Film and Comics
- Keeping up Appearances: Facing Prejudice in Eighteenth-Century Literature
- The Concept of Intelligence in Literature, Film and Culture
- Global Shakespeare: Adaptation and Appropriation