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
• The Novel Around the World
• 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
• Film, Reception and Consumption
• Concepts in Criticism B (double module)

Plus either Chaucer and Medieval Culture (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.

Core module

• Dissertation

Option modules 

Choose 3 option modules from lists labelled A, plus 2 option modules from lists labelled B. You must choose at least one of the modules marked * and at least one of the modules marked **. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules or both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules. Overall, at least 3 modules should be from the English lists.

Film Studies A

• Seriality: Film, Television and Other Media
• Contemporary European Cinema
• Contemporary Hollywood
• New Chinese Cinemas
• Hitchcock and Film History
• Film and Art Journalism

English A

• 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)*
• 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
• Advanced Old English Language
• Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
• Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
• Writing Prose Fiction
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Multilingual and Multicultural Communities

Film Studies B

• Screen Gothic
• Screen Affect
• Women in Cinema
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Norms and Margins in French Cinema
• The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
• Spanish Horror Cinema

English B

• Modern Literature**
• Postcolonial Britain**
• Rewriting Britain (double module)**
• Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
• American Autobiography and American Literature
• Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• Modern European Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Understanding Screenplays
• Tragedy
• Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
• Writing for Laughs
• Language, Power and Persuasion
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution

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)

Core module

• Dissertation

Option modules 

Choose 4 option modules from the lists labelled A, plus 2 option modules from the lists labelled B. You must choose at least one of the modules marked * and at least one of the modules marked **. You cannot choose both the 'Victorians' modules or both the 'Post-War to Post-Modern' modules. Overall, at least 3 modules should be from the Film Studies lists.

Film Studies A

• Seriality: Film, Television and Other Media
• Contemporary European Cinema
• Contemporary Hollywood
• New Chinese Cinemas
• Hitchcock and Film History
• Film and Art Journalism

English A

• 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)*
• 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
• Advanced Old English Language
• Detective Fiction from Sherlock Holmes to the Second World War
• Libertine Literature, 1660-1690
• Writing Prose Fiction
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Multilingual and Multicultural Communities

Film Studies B

• Screen Gothic
• Screen Affect
• Women in Cinema
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Norms and Margins in French Cinema
• The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
• Spanish Horror Cinema

English B

• Modern Literature**
• Postcolonial Britain**
• Rewriting Britain (double module)**
• Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
• American Autobiography and American Literature
• Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• Modern European Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Understanding Screenplays
• Tragedy
• Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
• Writing for Laughs
• Language, Power and Persuasion
• Sex and Sensibility: Women, Writing, Revolution

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.