The combination of Film Studies and Sociology offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that will enhance your knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of film, as well as deepening your grasp of crucial issues about the social worlds in which we live and work. This course allows you to develop your understanding of film while equipping you with a range of critical and analytical skills designed to help you enjoy a rewarding career with a range of employers.
Film Studies offers an excellent balance of theory and practice, allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to a range of films, and to apply these to a variety of practical projects. You well benefit from industry-standard facilities, including TV studios, multimedia suites plus digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites. You will also have opportunities to screen your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through work placements, thereby developing skills of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.
Sociology is concerned with the structures, institutions, powers and desires that motivate and control people, encouraging you to look beneath the surface of what we most take for granted about life. These insights can give us all sorts of new ways of making sense of human existence. The course is carefully designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of sociological theory from the start. Gaining a critical understanding of these issues will equip you with essential academic skills, whilst also encouraging you to develop as a creative and independent thinker. You also learn from case studies and research data about key issues of race, class and gender, and you will have the opportunity to participate in work placements related to Sociology.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Social Science and Modern Society
Contemporary Sociological Issues
Researching social Issues
Comparing Social Lives
Psychoanalysis and Society
Introduction to Film and Cinema
Visualization, Research and Storyboarding
Film and Genre
Introduction to Video
History of Cinema.
Year two modules:
Individual and Society
Social Divisions
Theories of Deviance, Crime and Social Control
Knowledge and Belief
Social Research Methods
Applied Ethics
Theorizing the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema
Film, Identity and Globalization
Documentary Film Theory
16mm Filmmaking
Introduction to European Cinema
Independent Cinema: US and Beyond
Video Documentary
Animation
European Cinema and Identity.
Year three modules:
Gender Relations
Sexuality and Social Control
Race, Racism and Identity
Diaspora and Migration
Contemporary Work and Organisational Life
Film Art
Film, Modernity and Post-modernity
Creative Practice in Film & Video 1
Working in Film
Avant-Garde Film and Experimental Video
Multiplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema
Creative Practice in Film & Video 2.
Associated careers
A key element of this course is the focus on the kind of skills currently in demand within the creative industries. Recent graduates are now following successful careers in film and video production, film criticism, broadcasting, the civil service, arts administration, journalism, financial services, human resource management, education, business management and advertising.
Assessment
Assessment is via a mix of traditional methods including examination, essays and presentations, plus a range of 'hands-on' methods including evaluation of students' production of creative work, plus the 'crit', during which students present and defend their own work.
200 - 220 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. GCSE(s) Preferred: English, grade C
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