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 Practice 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 at least one option module from:

• 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)

Choose one or two option modules from:

• Seriality: Film, Television and Other Media
• Contemporary European Cinema
• Contemporary Hollywood
• New Chinese Cinemas
• Hitchcock and Film History
• Coming of Age in America: Representing Adolescence in Fiction and Film
• The Forms of Modern Poetry
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Feminist Fiction
• Writing Voices
• Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
• Love and Sex in Old English Literature
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• 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
• Life and Fate: Russian Literature from Pushkin to Grossman
• Shakespeare, Sex, and Gender
• Language, Power and Persuasion

Choose at least one from:

• Modern Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Rewriting Britain (double module)

Choose one option module from: 

• Screen Gothic
• Screen Affect
• Women in Cinema
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Film and Art Journalism
• Autobiography and American Literature
• Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
• War, Trauma and the Novel
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
• Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
• Modern European Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Tragedy
• Clinical Encounters? Narratives of Doctors and Patients from the Victorians to the Present Day
• Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
• Writing for Laughs
• Reading and Writing Climate Change Fiction
• 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 at least one option module from: 

• 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)

Choose two or three option modules from:

• Screen Affect
• Women in Cinema
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Coming of Age in America: Representing Adolescence in Fiction and Film
• The Forms of Modern Poetry
• Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
• Feminist Fiction
• Writing Voices
• Criminal Women in Early Modern Literature
• Love and Sex in Old English Literature
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• 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
• Life and Fate: Russian Literature from Pushkin to Grossman
• Shakespeare, Sex, and Gender

Choose at least one option module from:

• Modern Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Rewriting Britain (double module)

Choose one option module from: 

• Women in Cinema
• Screen Affect
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Film and Art Journalism
• Modern Monsters: The Other in Contemporary American Texts
• War, Trauma and the Novel
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• Representing the Holocaust
• The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
• Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
• Modern European Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Tragedy
• Clinical Encounters? Narratives of Doctors and Patients from the Victorians to the Present Day
• Green Unpleasant Land: Britain’s Colonial Countryside
• Writing for Laughs
• Reading and Writing Climate Change Fiction
• 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.