BA Dutch and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB (Foreign language preferred.) IB: 34 points (A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5. Foreign language preferred.)
About this course
BA in Dutch and Film Studies, a School of European Languages, Culture and Society degree focusing on the culture and history of the Netherlands and Flanders alongside cinematic history. Core topics include Research Methods. The third academic year is spent abroad to immerse students in the cultures and societies of the Dutch language. The first year covers the foundations through An Introduction to Dutch Language and Culture, Introduction to Dutch Studies 1, Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World and Film and Media History and Analysis. The second year progresses with Intermediate Dutch Language and Culture, Introduction to Film Genre, Topics in Popular Film and Media and Mediatising Dissent, while introducing optional modules such as French Film History and The New German Cinema. The final year involves Advanced Dutch Language and Culture and a compulsory Dissertation in Film and Media, with further specialisation possible through optional choices like Low Countries Cinema, Bombay Cinema: Industry and History and East Asian Cinema.
Modules
- An Introduction to Dutch Language and Culture
- Introduction to Dutch Studies 1
- Introduction to Dutch Studies 2
- Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
- Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies
- Film and Media History and Analysis
- Intermediate Dutch Language and Culture
- Introduction to Film Genre
- Topics in Popular Film and Media
- Mediatising Dissent
- Directions in Contemporary Cinema
- French Film History
- The New German Cinema
- Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema
- 20th Century Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Aesthetics
- Advanced Dutch Language and Culture
- Dissertation in Film and Media
- Low Countries Cinema
- The Cinema of Resistance: Second World War
- Film and/as Philosophy
- Bombay Cinema: Industry and History
- East Asian Cinema
- French Film Adaptations
- Weimar and Nazi Film
- Words and Images: Italian Film Adaptations
- Experimental Film and Video: Between Gallery and Cinema
- Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II)