Course Overview

Our Film Studies degree is about cine-literacy: studying popular movies, art cinema, and experimental film; contemporary and historical, mainstream and alternative, international and domestic cinemas as a kind of literature. Our Film Studies program, in this sense, is an extension of our English Literature program, studying films as text, and exploring the cultural, political, and personal contexts of the creation of the text. We also explore the opportunities Film Studies opens by examining film marketing, distribution, exhibition, curating, festivals, film journalism, and audience research.

Our Film Studies degree is designed around exposing students to a wide variety of employment options after a Film degree beyond being a filmmaker or reviewer specifically.

Through the program’s core modules, employability opportunities are specifically identified and attendant skills are developed. At Level 5, for example, the course team expands the student’s understanding of film-based employment options by directly addressing film cultures like festivals, programming special seasons, curetting, audience research, marketing, and distribution & exhibition contexts. Level 5 also has an optional Work Experience module which students may opt-in for.

Level 6 enables students to explore more independently their own interests in further developing their employability options in two ways: potentially through their independent study projects and through the Film Reviewing module.

General Eligibility

104 UCAS tariff points (for example, BCC at A-Level)

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).