BA English Literature and Film
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including grade B in A level English Literature or related subject. Related subjects include English Language and Literature, English Language, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Creative Writing. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in higher level English or a related subject listed above
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Photography. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme is taught across two collaborating departments and includes a placement module offering industry experience. Students must take at least one module covering a historical period before 1900.
Modules
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Poetry in English
- Approaches to Television
- Approaches to Film
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Film Forms and Cultures
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Placement and Employability Skills
- Documentary
- Reworking Shakespeare in Performance
- Television and Contemporary Culture
- Identity, Performance and Culture
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Critical Thinking
- Early Modern Literature
- The Business of Books
- Shakespeare
- English Literature Dissertation
- Film Dissertation
- Creative Research Project
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Set Design
- Literature and Mental Health
- Children's Literature
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- Adaptations across Stage and Screen
- Musical Theatre
- Film Programming and Film Festivals
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Advanced Scriptwriting
- Screen Bodies
- Placing Jane Austen
- Shakespeare on Film
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature