BA (Hons) Film Studies

UCAS code: W622

Start date: September

Course length: full time: three years

Campus: Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus

This course is available to international students

This course is a pathway within our BA (Hons) Film and TV Studies programme.

During this course you'll focus on the critical and theoretical study of the moving image, while exploring related topics such as scriptwriting and archiving and gaining work experience.

Throughout your studies you'll develop an in-depth understanding of film and television using a wide variety of disciplines including history, psychology, cultural studies and politics. 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.

You'll study a total of 120 credits per year. This will be made up of single or double modules.

Stage one

You'll study modules such as:

• European Cinema
• Hollywood Cinema
• Introduction to American Television
• Moving Image 1
• Moving Image 2

Stage two

You'll study modules such as:

• British Cinema Since the 1960s
• Critical Approaches in Film and TV
• Film and Narrative Theory
• Spectatorship and Gender

And you'll choose two options from modules such as:

• American Youth Cinema
• Film in the East
• Image/Music/Sound
• British Cinema Since the 1960s
• Work Based Learning in the Creative and Cultural Industries
• Writing for Screen

Stage three

You'll study one module such as:

• Independent Study in Film (double module)

And you'll choose four options from modules such as:

• Contemporary American Cinema
• Cyberbodies
• Exhibition and Archive
• Experiment and Avant Garde
• Horror/Nation 
• Magic Box: Cinema and the Psyche
• Management Experience in the Creative and Cultural Industries
• World Cinema

Our entry requirements are usually 240 UCAS points, of which at least 200 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc.

We'll accept up to 40 points towards the total from level 3 qualifications such as AS levels (where those AS levels are not taken on to A2 level), the Extended Project or Music qualifications.

We don't accept points from Key Skills Level 3. If you have any questions about what is or isn't accepted, please contact our Admissions team.

We also accept the Access to HE Diploma.

Your points at level 3 will be in addition to 5 GCSEs at grade C or equivalent level 2 qualifications.

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The UCAS tariff points are a guide - we'll also consider all the information that you've included in your application. We'll also want to see that you're enthusiastic and motivated to take this course and that you have the potential to benefit from coming to university.

General undergraduate entry requirements

Fees for 2013/14

This is a classroom based course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £7,700 (each year)

We'll be announcing our international fees for 2013/14 later in the year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

How you'll learn

You'll normally have 12 hours of teaching per week - 3 hours per module. This includes many hours of film screenings and extracts. There will also be formal lectures and also small group and seminar work. In each module there are tutorials where you'll be preparing for assignments.

How you're assessed

It's all coursework - mainly essays, practical production work and some oral presentation work. In the third year, there's an Independent Study of 8,000 words.

Graduates from this course have found jobs in media related careers, as well as lecturing, teaching, museum work, library work and film archiving.

There's a thriving film culture in Derby which means that you'll get plenty of opportunities to indulge your passion for film, and you'll gain knowledge and skills that can help you in your career.

You'll benefit from having Quad - an arts centre that showcases visual arts, film and media - in the heart of the city. We also encourage students to get involved in film festivals such as FIVE/24 which gives aspiring film makers a single day to write, shoot, edit and complete a film which will then be shown on the big screen at Quad.  A previous winner was Derby film student Owen Tooth who used the opportunity to shoot a short film which he then used to attract investors for a feature film.