Year 1

You will acquire foundation knowledge in both English and Film Studies. You will learn about the most popular modes of literature and the predominant styles in film.

Modules

• Reading Film
• Introduction to Film History 1
• A Literary Genre: The Novel
• American Film and Visual Culture
• Film and Art: Academic Study and the Workplace
• Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year 2

During your film modules you will explore national and transnational cinemas, and work in groups to create your own short video. You will add a new dimension to your English education by studying the critical theories that have developed in response to literature and provide possible explanations of our relationship with art.

Modules

• Researching World Cinemas
• Film Production
• Documentary Film and Television
• Realism and Cinema
• Concepts in Criticism B (double module)

Plus either Chaucer and the English Tradition (double module) or Renaissance Literature B (double module)

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year Abroad (optional)

If you want to, you can spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions (eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2). Alternatively, you can opt to continue studying at the University and complete your degree in three years.

Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to work in the private sector, the state sector, a non-governmental organisation, or become self-employed you will find the experience invaluable. Find out more from our Study Abroad Unit. 

Please note that a year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See our Fees and Funding section for details.

History of Art and Film at Leicester has links with several European universities, administered through the Erasmus+ scheme. If you are eligible for a loan from Student Finance you can apply for a travel grant from them. Languages courses, at both beginners and advanced level, are available through the University’s Languages at Leicester scheme.

• For the latest information on the future of the Erasmus+ scheme at UK universities please see our Brexit microsite.

We have links with the following universities:

• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Université Paul-Valery Montpellier, France
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
• Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
• Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (Film Studies Dissertation)

During your final year you will research and write a dissertation on an area of Film Studies that most fascinates you. The rest of your learning will be entirely decided by you. A wide range of option modules will allow you to tailor your degree according to your interests and our expertise.

Choose 3 option modules from the following list. You must choose at least one of the modules marked *. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules.

• Romanticism: Revolutionary Writing from Blake to Shelley*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray B (double module)*
• Contemporary European Cinema
• Contemporary Hollywood
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• New Chinese Cinemas
• Hitchcock and Film History
• Film and Art Journalism
• Postwar Italian Directors
• Cinematic Representations of Latin America
• Blood, Terror, and Belonging: Culture at American Borders
• Coming of Age in America
• Modern Forms of Poetry
• The Child Writer
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Feminist Fiction
• Church and State in Medieval Literature
• Writing Voices
• Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
• English Around the World
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• Postcolonial Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the War on Terror
• English Place Names
• Detective Fiction
• Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
• Writing Prose Fiction
• On the Road Again: The Canterbury Tales After Chaucer
• Clinical Encounters? Narratives of Doctors and Patients from the Victorians to the Present Day
• Twenty-First Century Global Fiction
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Multilingual and Multicultural Communities

Choose 2 option modules from the following list. You must choose at least one of the modules marked*. You cannot choose both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules.

• Modern Literature*
• Post-War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-Present Day A*
• Post-War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-Present Day B (double module)*
• Women and Cinema
• Screen Affect
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Norms and Margins in French Cinema
• The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
• Spanish Horror Cinema
• Modern Monsters: The Other in Contemporary American Texts
• Autobiography and American Literature
• Advanced Marlowe: Poems, Translations, Plays
• Writing the Middle Ages: Medievalism in Contemporary Literature
• Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• Jane Austen: Novels, Contexts, Adaptations
• Modern European Fiction
• Advanced Old English
• Historical Fiction
• Understanding Screenplays
• Kingdoms of Ice and Snow: Exploration in Writing and Film
• Writing the English Revolution: Literature and Politics in Milton and Marvell
• Tragedy
• Austen in Antigua: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of Rural Britain’s Colonial History
• Writing for Laughs
• Language, Power and Persuasion
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution

Plus your Dissertation

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (English Dissertation)

Choose 4 option modules from the following list. You must choose at least one of the modules marked *. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules.

• Romanticism: Revolutionary Writing from Blake to Shelley*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray A*
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray B(double module)*
• Contemporary European Cinema
• Contemporary Hollywood
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• Hitchcock and Film History
• Film and Art Journalism
• Postwar Italian Directors
• Cinematic Representations of Latin America
• Blood, Terror, and Belonging: Culture at American Borders
• Coming of Age in America
• Modern Forms of Poetry
• The Child Writer
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Feminist Fiction
• Church and State in Medieval Literature
• Writing Voices
• Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
• English Around the World
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• Postcolonial Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the War on Terror
• English Place Names
• Detective Fiction
• Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
• Writing Prose Fiction
• On the Road Again: The Canterbury Tales After Chaucer
• Clinical Encounters? Narratives of Doctors and Patients from the Victorians to the Present Day
• Twenty-First Century Global Fiction
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Multilingual and Multicultural Communities

Choose 2 option modules from the following list. You must choose at least one of the modules marked*. You cannot choose both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules.

• Modern Literature*
• Post-War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-Present Day A*
• Post-War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-Present Day B(double module )*
• Women and Cinema
• Screen Affect
• New Chinese Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Norms and Margins in French Cinema
• The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
• Spanish Horror Cinema
• Modern Monsters: The Other in Contemporary American Texts
• Autobiography and American Literature
• Advanced Marlowe: Poems, Translations, Plays
• Writing the Middle Ages: Medievalism in Contemporary Literature
• Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• Jane Austen: Novels, Contexts, Adaptations
• Modern European Fiction
• Advanced Old English
• Historical Fiction
• Understanding Screenplays
• Kingdoms of Ice and Snow: Exploration in Writing and Film
• Writing the English Revolution: Literature and Politics in Milton and Marvell
• Tragedy
• Austen in Antigua: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of Rural Britain’s Colonial History
• Writing for Laughs
• Language, Power and Persuasion
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution

Plus your English Dissertation

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.