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What makes English Literature and Film Studies at Worcester special?

A joint honours in English Literature and Film Studies enables you to critically examine English Literature in some of its immensely varied contexts alongside developing analytical skills attuned to the diverse medium of film.  

Studying English Literature at Worcester allows you to develop skills in close and creative reading, theoretical concepts and a critical awareness of the relationship between texts and their contexts.

Film Studies at Worcester introduces you to a wide range of film genres and gives you the ability to understand how we interact, represent our ideas, and tell our stories through a visual medium.

Overview

Overview

Key Features

  • Excellent employment potential in careers like advertising, PR and journalism, as well as the film industry.
  • Small-class sizes, one-to-one tutorials and robust communication between students and staff
  • Study diverse literatures emanating from the sixteenth through to the twenty-first centuries – and encompassing both ‘canonical’ and ‘marginal’ texts
  • All Film Studies modules are assessed by coursework, not formal examinations
  • Tailor your course to your individual needs with a joint honours degree
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Entry requirements

What qualifications will you need?

104
UCAS tariff points

Entry requirements

104 UCAS Tariff points

Study options

Full-time or part-time study available

Course content

What will you study

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the discipline and feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do therefore change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practice. The most up-to-date information will be available to you once you have accepted a place and registered for the course. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative. 

Year 1

Mandatory modules:

  • World Cinema
  • Introduction to Film
  • Literary Forms and Genres
  • Writing Worcester Past and Present
  • Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing

Year 2

Mandatory modules:

  • Film Theory
  • Exploding the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice

Module options:

  • Film Genre Studies
  • British Cinema
  • Film Cultures
  • Authors & Authorship
  • Work project
  • Beyond the Mainstream: Identity and Diversity in Film and TV
  • Movement and Migration
  • Politics, Sex and Identity in the Early Modern World
  • Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
  • Gothic and Romantic Literature
  • Spaces of Modernity
  • Children’s Literature

Year 3

Module options:

  • Independent Study/Dissertation
  • Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western
  • Postcolonial Encounters
  • Writing and the Environment
  • War and Conflict
  • Gendering Voices
  • Partnerships and Rivalries
  • Literatures and Cultures: International Explorations
  • Queer Bodies, Queer Texts
  • Film & Folklore
  • Film Reviewing
  • Studies in Cult and Exploitation Cinema
  • Making Monsters
  • Cinema and Modern Life
  • Literature and Culture: International Exchanges
  • Asian Cinema
  • TV Times
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Joint Honours

Discover our full range of joint degrees and read about how your degree will be structured.

Find out more about studying a joint honours course
Teaching and assessment

How will you be taught?

For more information about teaching, learning and assessment on this course, please see the single honours course pages for English Literature and Film Studies.

Programme specification

For comprehensive details on the aims and intended learning outcomes of the course, and the means by which these are achieved through learning, teaching and assessment, please download the latest programme specification documents for English Literature and Film Studies.

Careers

Where could it take you?

Employability

Many English Literature graduates will progress to careers requiring good communication skills such as Public Relations or develop research careers with media or publishing companies. Throughout the English Literature degree, there is a focus on developing employability, including the opportunity to select a work project module a credited work project module. Students are also strongly encouraged to take up the opportunity to study abroad for a semester.

Film Studies develops student skills in practice-as-research and research-as-practice for a number of culture and media industries including exhibition, distribution, audience-based marketing, journalism, film education, curating, programming, filmmaking, screenwriting and further academic research.

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Careers and Employability

Our Graduates pursue exciting and diverse careers in a wide variety of employment sectors.

Find out how we can support you to achieve your potential.
Costs

How much will it cost?

Full-time tuition fees

UK and EU students

The standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2023/24 academic year is £9,250 per year.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.

International students

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2023/24 academic year is £14,700 per year.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.

Part-time tuition fees

UK and EU students

The standard tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students registering on this course in the academic year 2023/24 are £1,156 per 15-credit module, £1,542 per 20-credit module, £2,312 per 30-credit module, £3,083 per 40-credit module, £3,469 per 45-credit module and £4,625 per 60 credit module.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.

Additional costs

Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses.

If your course offers a placement opportunity, you may need to pay for an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Accommodation

Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience. Our halls of residence are home to friendly student communities, making them great places to live and study.

We have over 1,000 rooms across our range of student halls. With rooms to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Hall' at £122 per week to 'En-suite Premium' at £207 per week (2023/24 prices).

For full details visit our accommodation page.
How to apply

How do you apply?

Part-time applications

If you would like to apply to study this course part time, please complete our online application form.

Apply through UCAS

English Literature and Film Studies - QP3H

UCAS is the central organisation through which applications are processed for entry onto full-time undergraduate courses in Higher Education in the UK.

Read our How to apply pages for more information on applying and to find out what happens to your application.

UCAS Code

QP3H

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Get in touch

If you have any questions, please get in touch. We're here to help you every step of the way.

Dr Sharon Young

Admissions Tutor, English Literature
s.young@worc.ac.uk
01905 542428

Dr Mikel Koven

Course Leader, Film Studies
m.koven@worc.ac.uk
01905 85 5297

Admissions office

admissions@worc.ac.uk
01905 855111

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