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BA (Hons) Film Studies

Keele University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

A degree in Film Studies can be a starting point for careers in film and television, whether your particular interest is in direction, screenwriting, editing, production, or marketing; as well as being a vital foundation for teachers and critics of the medium. Film Studies at Keele can also open up a wide variety of other career options in media and education, as well as publishing, advertising and events management, and a range of other related fields.

General Eligibility

A LEVEL REQUIREMENTS

  • A Level requirement BBC

GCSE REQUIREMENTS

  • English at C (or 4)

BTEC

  • BTEC requirements DMM

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

  • 29 points 

ACCESS TO HE DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS

  • Access to Higher Education Diploma with 112 UCAS Tariff points including a minimum of 15 Level 3 credits at Distinction. 

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Introduction to Television Studies

  • Film Animation: History and Theory

  • Reading Film and Media

  • Modern European Film and Television

  • Film and Culture

  • Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • History, Media, Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture

  • The Photographic Message

  • Digital Video

  • Sound for Moving Image

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Gender and the Cinematic Gaze

  • Adaptation

  • Science Fiction Cinema: Utopias and Dystopias

  • Global Popular Cinemas

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Social Media and Society

  • Work Placement for Humanities Students

  • Alfred Hitchcock's America

  • Documentary: Theory and Practice

  • Film and Screen Music

3 Year 3

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Independent Study Project (ISP) in Film Studies

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

  • Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation

  • British Social Realism

  • Youth and Film: Growing Up on Screen

  • Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students

  • ISP in Film Studies and Creative Writing

  • Work Experience in Media, Communications and Culture

  • Hitchcock's Queer Cinema

  • Crime in Neoconservative America

  • Approaches to Screenwriting

  • Visual Pleasures: From Carnival to Disney

  • Music, Conflict and Social Change

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component or equivalent.

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