BA History and Film Studies with a Placement Year
Entry requirements
A level: BBB
About this course
BA (Hons) in History and Film Studies, spanning cinema analysis and historical investigation. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. The course follows a modular structure, allowing choice across a range of historical periods and film topics, and includes a Film and Video Production module. A final-year dissertation is required.
Modules
- HUM PLACEMENT YEAR
- DOING FILM HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- ANALYSING FILM
- WORLD CINEMAS
- VISUAL(ISING) HISTORY
- DOING HISTORY
- PROPAGANDA
- KEY CONCEPTS IN FILM THEORY
- FILM GENRES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
- THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
- STUDYING MEDIA AUDIENCES
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
- ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
- THEORISING TELEVISION: FROM BROADCASTING TO STREAMING
- HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
- FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 4000BC TO 1066AD
- TUDOR ENGLAND
- FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION
- THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
- DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE
- THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
- STUART ENGLAND
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- DIGITAL MEDIA: CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES & CULTURES
- NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
- JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
- ASIAN FILM AND DIGITAL CULTURE
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
- RESEARCHING MEDIA INDUSTRIES AND CREATIVE SECTORS IN CONTEXT
- FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
- SCRIPTWRITING: ADAPTATION
- IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- SOUND ON SCREEN
- MEDIA, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- SCIENCE FICTION
- WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
- TEACHING HISTORY
- IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
- CONTEMPORARY SCREEN DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION
- CELEBRITY: FROM STARS TO INFLUENCERS
- DISSERTATION IN MEDIA, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
- STORYTELLING, MEDIA AND CRISIS