BA English and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 32 points overall, including 6 (English),5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English and Film Studies. Core topics include Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Fieldwork. Students examine literature, language, and cinema across historical, cultural, and ideological contexts, spanning from early Anglo-Saxon texts to contemporary global literatures and world cinema.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to Film Studies 1
- Introduction to Film Studies 2
- Introduction to English Language
- Screen Technologies
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Film Genre Studies
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Cinema and Modernism
- Film and Sound: History and Theory
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- World Cinema
- Principles of Business in Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries
- Popular Genres
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Introduction to Animation Studies
- Creative Enterprise in Film and Digital Media
- America's Aftermaths
- Gender, Culture, and Representation – Backwards & in Heels
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Hollywood Cinema 2
- Language in the Media
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Film and Music: Theory and Criticism
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Media and Time
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Transnational Crime cinema
- Cinema and the Environment
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now