Film and Television Studies BA (Hons)
Education with the personal touch
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Film and Television Studies BA (Hons)
Course fees: £9,945* *These fees apply if you are starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fees as they can change. Costs can increase each year.
Start date: September
There will be formal lectures and some group work as well as seminars. In each module there are tutorials, in which you’ll be preparing for assignments. We will also be screening material and discussing it in the class.
Your career
Why choose this course?
Graduates from this course have gone on to have careers in cinema marketing and management, television production, television research, journalism, public relations and radio production. You could also move on to careers in lecturing, teaching, museum work, library work and film archiving.
This course focuses on the critical and theoretical study of the moving image. You’ll benefit from the expertise of our teaching team and learn from industry speakers who will enhance your understanding of film and television theory with their first-hand experience of working in the industry.
If you would like to develop your skills and knowledge further, you'll be able to take postgraduate courses like filmmaking, scriptwriting, journalism, film archiving and teacher training. Or you may wish to pursue your studies on our MA Humanities course.
UCAS Code: W622
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STAGE ONE STAGE TWO
European Cinema*
SPRING
In your first year you will normally have up to 12 hours of teaching per week. You will take 6 modules across the year.
Introduction to Hollywood Cinema*
The Moving Image II*
Representation: Race and Gender*
Introduction to American Television*
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How you’ll learn
The Moving Image I*
Youth TV or British Cinema Since 1960*
Film and Narrative Theory
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Duration: 3 years full time
In addition, you can specialise in either Film Studies or Film and Television Studies from your second year, depending on what you have enjoyed studying and find most interesting.
What you’ll cover
British Television Drama or Spectatorship and Gender *
Critical Approaches
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Language – A qualification such as IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all areas) or TOEFL – 550 (paper based), 213 (computer based), 80 (internet based). See our website for other accepted qualifications or phone us: +44 (0)1332 591698.
Throughout your studies you will develop an in-depth understanding of film and television using a wide variety of disciplines including history, psychology, cultural studies and politics.
STAGE THREE
Entry requirements: Academic – 240 UCAS tariff points, of which at least 200 must be from your International Baccalaureate or equivalent qualification.
About the course
SPRING
Where you will study: Derby Campus – Kedleston Road site.
Independent Study in Film and Television or Independent Study in Film*
Options Stage two You’ll choose from: ▪ Film in the East* ▪ Writing for the Screen* ▪ Work-Based Learning in the Creative and Cultural Industries* ▪ American Television in the 1950s and 1960s ▪ Image/Music/Sound* ▪ Practices and Narration* ▪ Conflicting Images ▪ British Cinema Since 1960. Stage three You’ll choose from: ▪ Experiment and Avant-Garde* ▪ World Cinema* ▪ The Magic Box: Psyche and Cinema* ▪ Horror/Nation* ▪ Cyberbodies* ▪ Advanced Scriptwriting* ▪ Contemporary American Cinema* ▪ Management Experience in the Creative and Cultural Industries*
▪ Schedules and Margins ▪ Television and Tourism ▪ Documentary and Factual Production: Poetics and Praxis. *Modules required for the BA (Hons) Film Studies pathway
Additional information You will benefit from the broad range of expertise within your teaching team, which includes subjects such as third cinema, British television drama, cyberbodies and the international horror genre. Some of our lecturers are also award winning filmmakers in their own right. Throughout the course we invite industry speakers to talk to you about their experience of the industry. A recent example is Terry Bamber, one of the team behind James Bond’s last five film outings.
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The information in this leaflet was correct when we produced it, but please check our website for the most up to date information.
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