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The BA (Hons) English and Film & TV degree unlocks the power of storytelling. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory, analysis, and creative practice, you’ll gain a deep appreciation for how literature, film, and television shape our understanding of the world around us.
You’ll benefit from a collaborative learning environment that fosters creativity and innovation, working closely with fellow students, academics, and industry professionals, whilst plotting a personalized pathway through this dynamic course thanks to its mix of modules on national, international, and transnational cinematic, televisual, and literary traditions. From Scorsese to Shakespeare, we’ve got it covered.
Alongside subject expertise, you’ll develop your ability to express yourself across a range of different platforms, including video essays, podcasts, and blogs, and gain first-hand experience with a host of graduate workplace skills, including teamwork, event management, and flexibility. You’ll also learn how to communicate the significance of film, television, fiction, poetry, theatre and creative non-fiction in the context of current global challenges.
For UK Students:
Standard offer: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications
Contextual offer: 104 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications.
GCSE English and Maths grade C / 4
International Students:
112 UCAS tariff points from four A-levels or equivalent qualifications
GCSE English and Maths grade C / 4.
International qualifications
We accept qualifications from all over the world – check yours here: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/international/study-and-courses/your-application/entry-requirements-by-country
20 hours work permit for international students
Core modules
Literary Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Ways of Reading
Film and TV style in close-up
The Bigger Picture: core concepts, contexts and debates in film and television studies
Transformation: Agency and Self
Optional modules typically include - choose one
Global Narratives in English
International Ciné-Club
Rebel Literatures
Putting Film and TV into practice
Transformation: Agency and World
Optional pathways
Pathway 1: Extended work-like experience
Pathway 2: An international exchange
Pathway 3: Taught modules
Interdisciplinary optional modules typically include:
Intercultural Communication at Work
People and Planet: pasts, presents, and futures
Rhetoric and Public Communication
Film & TV optional modules typically include:
British Cinema
Analysing British Television
Film Programming
English optional modules typically include:
Imagining the Sustainable World
Women's Writing and the Literary Marketplace
Shakespeare and Co.
Black Writing in Britain
Contemporary Working-Class Writing
Core module
Major project
English Major Project
Film and Television Major Project
Humanities Research Project
Transformation: Agency and Social Change
Artificial Intelligence: Human Factors
Humanities in Action
Film and TV optional modules typically include:
American Television since 1950: from broadcast to narrowcast
Rubbish Film
American Cinema Since 1949: Margins and Mainstreams
Global Screen Cultures
Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory
Writing Justice: Changing Worlds
Poetry and the Planet
Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries
Early Modern Poetry and Prose: Nation, Self, Other
Nuclear Literature: Culture in the Atomic Age
Accepted qualifications:
IELTS Academic
TOEFL iBT, including ‘Home Edition' - We accept the online test as well
IGCSE
Cambridge
Oxford
Pearson Test of English
International/European Baccalaureate
A/O level
Trinity College ISE
KITE - We accept the online test as well
Various country qualifications
6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component
This requirement is for Year One entry only. If you're starting in Year Two or final year you'll need a higher grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component
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