BA English and Film
Entry requirements
GCSE: GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is required. You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements in addition to the Level 3 qualification requirements. UCAS tariff: 104 UCAS points. A level: 104 UCAS points. T level: Merit. BTEC: DMM. Access to HE: Pass Level 3 Access to HE Diploma with 104 UCAS points. Scottish Highers: 104 UCAS points. Irish Leaving Certificate: 104 UCAS points. IB: 30-32 points. European Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma at least 71% overall.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and Film Studies, combining literary and cinematic study. Core topics include Programming and Research Methods. The course examines cinema from Britain, America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. A Film Programming and Curating module includes case studies such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Modules
- Critical Approaches to Film
- Popular Fictions
- Film Form, Film Meaning
- Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Discovering Literature
- British Cinema
- Film Journalism
- Cinema Asia
- Comedy and British Cinema
- Contemporary American Cinema
- The Romantic Period: the Sublime and the Gothic
- Analysing Media Texts
- Literature, Adaptation and the Screen
- Victorian Literature: Progress and Panic
- 21st Century Women’s Writing
- The Female Gothic
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Environmental Nightmares, World Futures
- Postmodernism
- Teaching Masterclass
- Sequential Art (Comics and Graphic Novels)
- Hollywood Masculinities
- Film Programming and Curating for Cinemas and Festivals
- Alternative, Independent, and Marginal Film
- Film and Theory
- British Theatre Post-1950
- Biography: Tradition and Innovation
- Health Communication
- Post/Colonial African Literature
- Alternative Ulster
- Dissertation