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Description
This flexible degree enables students to carry out critical analysis of some of societys most powerful media: literature, film and television. You will explore the ways in which film and television relate to history, culture and identity, in addition to studying major areas of English literature. You will develop an informed understanding of current debates in both these fields and are encouraged to explore your own ideas and interests.
English
This degree provides you with a varied, challenging, and enjoyable programme. You will engage in in-depth study of the major areas of English literature from the Renaissance to the most recent publications in poetry, fiction and drama, whilst developing an informed understanding of current debates in the subject. You will explore literature by looking at its structures and forms as well as the varying contexts in which it is produced and read.
Film and Television Studies
From Hong Kong cinema to Hollywood and from Science Fiction to Documentary, Film and TV Studies at Brunel examines a wide range of recent and contemporary production for big screen and small. The course offers many innovative, exciting and distinctive modules, taught by a team of enthusiastic staff.
Individual modules focus on both mainstream and alternative practices, the latter including American Independent Cinema, Third Cinema and Alternative Film and Video Practices. Popular genres such as Horror and Comedy and studied alongside, and informed by, more theoretically oriented material.
Limited opportunities will be available for practical work, but significantly less so than is the case for single honour students.
About the College of Business, Arts and Humanities
The College of Business, Arts and Humanities at Brunel includes single and joint honours degree courses in English, Journalism, Music and Creative Music Technology, Film and Television Studies and Modern Drama. This is a vibrant, friendly and creative place to study. Research conducted by staff provides the basis for much of our teaching, ensuring that modules are connected to debates and issues that are current within these interdisciplinary areas.
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English
The degree is designed to develop your ability to read texts in increasingly complex and diverse ways.
Our lecturers have a good record of research and publication but, because our own areas of expertise are wide-ranging, we dont promote any single critical approach as the right way of reading literature. Instead we aim to introduce you right from the start to a variety of critical perspectives in preference to a routine chronological survey.
Film and Television Studies
You will study film and television texts from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and develop the critical and technological vocabularies and theoretical frameworks with which to conduct close textual and contextual analysis.
Detailed Course Facts
Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee- GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
- GBP 13000 Year (Non-EEA)
Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
- English
Course Content
English
There are opportunities for specialisation through a wide range of options which you may select according to your own particular tastes and interests, be they in contemporary poetry, drama, fiction, in literatures of the past or in literatures from cultures remote from our own.
There is only one compulsory module, and that is at Level 1. It deals with the most important approaches to criticism and theory that inform English studies in universities throughout the country. As such, it acts as a foundation for your other English studies. Other modules concentrate on different approaches to poetry, dramatic text and prose.
We also offer modules which concentrate on periods and themes. These include Early Modern Writers and Popular Fictions.
Levels 2/3
At Level 2, you will study some period based modules such as Romanticism and Revolution, Shakespeare, The Nineteenth Century Novel, and Modernism, as well as conceptual modules that build on themes explored in the Level 1 compulsory module, such as Post-Colonial Writing and The Womens Movement. At Level 3, you can choose from a wide range of modules that are research-led by experts in the field, including: Shakespeare the Return of the Author; Writing Ireland; Critical Perspectives (Historical and Contemporary); Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture; and Post-Millennial Fiction, 2000 to the Present.At Level 3, you can choose from a wide range of modules that are research led by experts in the field, including: Shakespeare the Return of the Author; Writing India; Critical Perspectives (Historical and Contemporary); Jane Austen; Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture; and Post-Millennial Fiction, 2000 to the present.
Film and Television Studies
You will begin with a series of foundational modules at Level 1 that introduce you to film and television form, critical frameworks that have shaped the subject, historical and social context and an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice. At Level 2, you will be given more choice, to develop these understandings in relation to more specific media, geographical and/or genre contexts, and to undertake video practice. At Level 3, you are expected to develop increasingly sophisticated frameworks of analysis across a range of modules, including those focused on alternative practices in a variety of contexts. Level 3 practical options are restricted, however, to single honours students.
English Language Requirements
IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL paper-based test score : 580 TOEFL iBT® test : 92
To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to
take an IELTS test. More About IELTSRequirements
GCE A-level AAB ABB. Typical offer AAB, including Grade B in English.
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma D*D*D in a related subject (Applicants without A-level English will be required to submit a written sample of work on request).
BTEC Level 3 Diploma D*D in a related subject with an A-level in English at grade A.
BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A-levels grade AA including English.
International Baccalaureate Diploma 35 points including Higher Level 5 in English.
Access to Higher EducationDiploma Complete and pass a related subject Access course with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. All English units must be Distinctions at level 3.
GCSE Mathematics grade C and GCSE English grade C are also required.
Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants within our grade range as well as our full GCSE requirements and accepted equivalencies in place of GCSEs.
English Language Requirements
IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)
Work Experience
No work experience is required.
Related Scholarships*
- Academic Excellence Scholarship
"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."
- Access Bursary
Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.
- Alumni Bursary
Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students
* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Brunel University.
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