Film Studies  (FMI1)

The Film Studies Programme is aimed at students who wish to deepen and refine their engagement with the film, television, internet, and other popular media that saturates their environment; from which they get information, transact business, conduct relationships, and spend leisure time. Our mission is to produce graduates capable of fulfilling their highest potential as critical and creative citizens, and to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, resources and inspiration useful for a range of professions and beneficial for life. We educate students in the history of media and cultural production, in current theoretical methods and approaches, and in a wide range of generic, historical and national media.  We promote our core values – independence, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness – through innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods.  The lecture, seminar, workshop and small group work are at the core of our teaching. In supportive learning environments students and staff come together in the spirit of mutual inquiry, contemplation, discussion and debate. Work is assessed by a variety of methods including exams, essays, reading and screening responses, presentations, individual and group projects. Together these modes of assessment foster the development of a range of important skills and qualities.  Our students are educated for life and hope that the experience of studying Film, within the School of English, Drama and Film, will help our students learn who they are, search for a larger purpose for their lives, and leave college better people. The challenges, experiences and opportunities provided in this educational environment prepare students for a variety of different workplaces.

1 - Negotiate media as critical consumers, able to situate a text within appropriate generic, thematic, critical, historic and cultural contexts, and to interrogate it in the light of current critical debates and their own ideas.
2 - Possess knowledge of media production in specific time periods and cultures, and able to identify aesthetic innovations and trends, but with an ability to connect ideas, forms and genres across periods, cultures and modes
3 - Demonstrate refined and sophisticated skills in detailed textual analysis and close reading, and highly attentive to the relationship between texts and form
4 - Be attuned to audio-visual formal techniques, with an extensive command of visual terminology, and the ability to apply this knowledge to the analysis of texts in a range of genres and media
5 - Articulate with clarity, precision, depth, and style that demonstrates an awareness of genre, modes of argument, rhetorical skills, and audience, verbally and in writing
6 - Be confident of their own critical judgements, informed by appropriate academic and theoretical skills, and be capable of expressing critical judgement clearly and effectively
7 - Be innovative, independent thinkers who are creative in their approach and response to complex issues
8 - Articulate the value and radical transformative potential of literature and literary studies, and become an enthusiastic advocate for the discipline in wider society
9 - Plan effectively, negotiate commitments, manage time and solve problems, whether working independently or collaboratively
10 - Crituque as highly skilled critical media consumers, committed to the necessity of understanding media and its cultural impact, with an ongoing desire to explore the rich variety of cultural production and cultural history
11 - Have through research challenges the opportunity to identify gaps in knowledge and locate appropriate sources of information (including online resources, databases, digital tools), and to differentiate between finding information, and evaluating and using knowledge in their project work
12 - Advance to Postgraduate studies will all the necessary critical, writing and research skills

Stage 3

Students must take 2x10 credit modules.