Program Overview

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English and Film Studies BA

Overview

This joint honours degree gives students a unique insight into global film and literary culture. Students will have the chance to explore the richness of English language and literature alongside cinemas from around the world, gaining critical skills and cultural awareness valued by employers.

Course Details and Modules

• Year 1: Students will be introduced to the standard concepts and research skills in film studies through an original and democratic approach. Modules will look at these concepts from the perspective of world cinema. At the same time, students will explore poetry, prose, and drama to develop their understanding of literature.
• Year 2: Students will engage with key critical concepts, theoretical frameworks, and methodologies in film studies whilst also gaining an in-depth understanding of key periods in English literature. They will also choose from an array of optional modules to explore different areas of film studies and literature.
• Year 3: Students will use the research skills they have developed in their Final Year Project, an independent piece of research on a topic of their choosing. They will also encounter some of the latest approaches and thinking in film studies and choose from more optional modules.

Course Structure

The list of modules shown represents typical modules studied and may change from time to time.

Year 1 Compulsory Modules

• Writing Matters (20 credits)
• Reading Between the Lines (20 credits)
• Introduction to Film Studies I (20 credits)
• Introduction to Film Studies II (20 credits)

Year 1 Optional Modules

• Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation (20 credits)
• Race, Writing and Decolonization (20 credits)
• Directing World Cinemas (20 credits)
• Worlds of Literature (20 credits)
• Film Music (20 credits)

Year 2 Compulsory Modules

• Body Language: Literature and Embodiment (20 credits)
• Critical Approaches to Screen Studies (20 credits)

Year 2 Optional Modules

• Cinematic Themes (20 credits)
• Chinese Cinema (20 credits)
• American Words, American Worlds (20 credits)
• Postcolonial Literature (20 credits)
• Modern Literature (20 credits)
• Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature (20 credits)
• The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 (20 credits)
• Women's Authorship in World Cinema (20 credits)
• Introduction to German Cinema (20 credits)
• Cinema in France: The Seventh Art (20 credits)
• Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals (20 credits)
• Screening Italy: Neorealist cinema to Netflix (20 credits)
• Questioning Genre in World Cinemas (20 credits)
• Issues in Hispanic Cinema (20 credits)
• Global Environmental Humanities (20 credits)
• Digital Communications Across Cultures (20 credits)
• Black Europe (credits not specified)
• Global Queer Politics and Cultures (credits not specified)

Year 3 Compulsory Modules

• Current Enquiries into Film Studies (20 credits)
• Final Year Project (credits not specified)

Year 3 Optional Modules

• Japanese Cinema in the World (20 credits)
• Writing Modern Sexualities (20 credits)
• Shakespeare (20 credits)
• Refugee Narratives (20 credits)
• Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century (20 credits)
• Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir (20 credits)
• Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After (20 credits)
• Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature (20 credits)
• Shakespeare and Global Cinema (20 credits)
• Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery (20 credits)
• Postcolonial London (20 credits)
• Post-War European Cinema: History, Politics and Aesthetics (20 credits)
• Hollywood and its Others (20 credits)
• Queer Films on Global Screens (20 credits)
• Cinema in the Digital Era (20 credits)
• Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents (20 credits)
• Decolonial Approaches (20 credits)

Learning and Teaching

Students will benefit from a variety of learning and teaching styles. Tutors are experts in their fields, so students will be able to benefit from their knowledge in lectures, small-group seminars, and supervision meetings.

Assessment

Assessments include written and video essays, literature reviews, a mixture of live and pre-recorded presentations, sequence analysis, and exams. Students will regularly receive detailed feedback on their coursework.

Entry Requirements

• A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature)
• Other qualifications:
  • Access to HE Diploma: Pass diploma with 60 credits overall, including at least 45 credits at level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher.
  • BTEC: Considered in combination with other qualifications.
  • Cambridge Pre-U: D3, M1, M2 including D3 in English.
  • International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 6 in English at Higher Level.
  • Irish Leaving Certificate (higher Level): H2, H2, H2, H2, H3, H3 including H2 in English
  • Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers: AB in Advanced Highers including A in English and AABBB in Highers, or A in English in Advanced Highers and AABBB in Highers.
  • Welsh Baccalaureate: Accepted in place of a third A-level subject at the same grade.
  • European Baccalaureate: 80% including 8.5 in English.

Fees

• UK: £9,790
• International: £26,500 (per year)

Additional Cost Information

There may be additional costs related to the course or programme of study, or related to being a student at the University of Leeds.

Scholarships and Financial Support

The University offers scholarships and financial support to help fund students' degrees.

Applying

Apply to this course through UCAS. The deadline for applications can be found on the UCAS website.

Career Opportunities

A degree in English and Film Studies will equip students with a wide range of transferable skills that will appeal to employers. Graduates have gone on to succeed in careers in publishing, law, advertising and marketing, journalism, education, charity work, business and finance, and the civil service.

Study Abroad and Work Placements

On this course, students have the opportunity to apply to spend time abroad or take a work placement year with organisations across the public, private, and voluntary sectors in the UK or overseas.

Related Courses

• Arts and Humanities with Foundation Year BA
• English and Comparative Literature BA
• English Literature BA
• Liberal Arts BA