Edinburgh Napier University

BA (Hons) English & Film

Edinburgh Napier UniversityEdinburgh, United Kingdom

Course overview

Explore literature in its most modern context alongside film theory and criticism in this Joint Honours degree. The BA (Hons) in English and Film degree will deepen your interest, understanding and knowledge of important texts, genres and concerns in literature from the Renaissance to the present, and film from the early twentieth-century to contemporary releases. You will study both literature and film across a wide and diverse area of cultural studies, including: popular culture, genre fiction and film, adaptation studies, TV studies, new media, creative writing, and socially-relevant modules examining cultural representations of crime, ecology, terrorism, global conflict and globalisation, imperialism, cultural hertiage and more.

You'll study English from exciting interdisciplinary perspectives and benefit from your lecturers' and tutors' deep literary knowledge and expertise. You'll also gain a strong foundation in a range of global cinemas and literatures, including the theoretical and historical debates that have helped to shape our understanding of literature and film across the world. This course will develop your critical and theoretical skills, and help prepare you for a career in a number of areas of the cultural and creative industries.

The course provides the opportunity to study at a partner university overseas, or take a work placement in industry. The BA (Hons) in English and Film is not a practical film-making course. However, the University does offer plenty

Key highlights

  • Joint study of literature from the Renaissance and twentieth-century to contemporary film
  • Modules span adaptation studies, TV studies, new media and creative writing
  • Explores cultural representations of crime, ecology, terrorism and globalisation
  • Strong foundation in global cinemas and literatures and their theoretical debates
  • Option to study at a partner university overseas
  • Opportunity to take a work placement in industry

Entry requirements

  • Scottish Highers: ABBB — to include including English or literary subject
  • Scottish Highers: BBBC — minimum (widening access) offer
  • A-level: BBC — to include including English or literary subject; minimum (widening access) offer
  • Irish Leaving Certificate — minimum (widening access) offer; H2, H2, H2, H3 at HL including English or literary subject
  • HNC / HND: Pass — minimum (widening access) offer; Pass; in Media and Communications

Scholarships

  • Albert Morris Scholarships

    Undergraduates - £8,000; Master’ - £12,000

Careers this course leads to

  • Film critic
  • Journalist
  • Editor
  • Content writer
  • Arts administrator
  • Marketing executive

Cost of study

UK/Home: £9,790 | International: £18,220

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Edinburgh Napier University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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