English and Film with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

This well-established joint programme allows you to explore these separate disciplines and to exploit the synergies between them.Studying literature, you will harness core skills in critical and independent thinking to analyse a range of literary texts, gaining a sophisticated appreciation of how texts interact with their historical and social contexts.Studying film, you will examine a range of critical approaches, investigate developments in American and British cinema from their origins to the present day and discover how cinema has become a significant part of international culture as a major entertainment industry.This course is just one of our English and Creative Writing programmes, which have risen ten places in the 2020 Guardian university league tables. The foundation year of this four-year programme aims to provide you with a range of necessary study skills for undertaking successful undergraduate learning, and it will introduce you to a range of academic study which will prepare you to progress positively onto the BA (Hons) English and Film.