Film and Television Studies Joint Honours
Education with the personal touch
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Film and Television Studies Joint Honours Where you will study: Derby Campus – Kedleston Road site. Entry requirements: Academic – 220-300 UCAS tariff points, of which at least 200-240 must be from your International Baccalaureate or equivalent qualification. 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. Duration: 3 years full time 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 UCAS Code: Y002
Why choose this course? This course focuses on the critical and theoretical study of the moving image. You can combine Film and Television Studies with one or two other subjects to create a varied and interesting joint honours degree. You’ll study at Kedleston Road, at the heart of the Derby campus. It’s equipped with a four storey library that’s crammed with learning resources.
About the course 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. You’ll also explore related topics such as scriptwriting.
How you’ll learn Teaching will include many hours of screenings of television programmes, films and extracts. There will also be formal lectures and small group and seminar work. In each module there are tutorials, in which you'll be preparing for assignments. You'll be assessed entirely by coursework - mainly essays and some oral presentation work. In the third year there is an Independent Study of 8000 words.
What you’ll cover STAGE ONE
STAGE TWO
STAGE THREE
The Moving Image
Conflicting Images
Experiment and Avant-Garde
Introduction to Hollywood Cinema
Film in the East
Independent Study in Film and Television
European Cinema
Work Based Learning in the Creative and Cultural Industries
The Magic Box: Psyche and Cinema
The Moving Image II
British Television Drama
World Cinema
Representation: Race and Gender
Image/Music/Sound
Schedules and Margins
Introduction to American Television
American Television in the 1950s and 1960s
Horror/Nation
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Critical Approaches
Cyberbodies
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American Youth Cinema
Documentary and Factual Production: Poetics and Praxis
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Contemporary American Cinema
Your career Graduates from this course have gone on to have media-related careers in marketing or 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. Or if you’d like to continue your studies, you'll be able to take a postgraduate qualification like our MA Humanities or MA Humanities – Horror and Transgression.
Additional information This is a great opportunity for our film students to hear from someone who has seen the film industry from many angles and the changes it’s gone through. Professor Jason Lee speaking about Terry Bamber’s visit
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, enabling them to enhance your understanding of film theory with their first hand experience of working in the industry. Throughout the course you’ll learn from industry speakers - Terry Bamber, one of the team behind James Bond's last five film outings came to talk to students, to share his experiences and give advice.
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