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Master of Arts (Honours) Film Studies and French


Film Studies joint: First year
Code Module name Credits
Key Concepts in Film Studies 20 AND
Film History and Historiography 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

French joint element: First Year
Code Module name Credits
French Language and Literature 1 20 AND
French Language and Literature 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


Film Studies joint: Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ Modern World Cinemas 20 AND
^ Film Culture, Theory, Entertainment 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^
French joint element: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ Second Level French Language (1) 10 AND
^ Second Level French Language (2) 10 AND
^ View list At least 20 credits from Module List: FR2000 - FR2999 (excluding FR2201 and FR2202) AND
French Civilisation: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
French Civilisation: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
French Literature: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
French Literature: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.


Film Studies joint: Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4100 - FM4899
Cinema and Politics 30
FM4104 Film and History 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
FM4107 Cinema and Nation 30
Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
Film and the Archive 30
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
FM4111 The European Crime Film 30
FM4112 Images of the Past 30
FM4113 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
FM4114 Film Genres 30
Sensory Cinema 30
Stars 30
FM4117 Modernity and the Moving Image 30
FM4118 Film and Fashion 30
Silent Cinema 30
FM4121 Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
FM4123 Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4202 The Cinema in Eastern Europe 30
Asian Cinemas 30
FM4206 Cinemas of India 30
FM4207 British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders 30
City in Asian Cinema 30
Documentary Cinema 30
FM4304 Film and Sexual Identities 30
Feminist Film Studies 30
FM4308 Film Sound 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Project (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.
French joint element: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
French Language 1 15 AND
French Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099, FR4011 - FR4197, ML3201
FR3021 An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3025 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Nineteenth-Century French Theatre 15
Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3030 'Tartuffe' in Context, in Performance and in Translation 15
From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3076 Writing the Nineteenth Century 1: French Literature, History and Politics 1848 - 1871 15
Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3078 Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
FR3080 Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR3081 The Court of Louis XIV 15
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
Translation Methodology 1 15
Translation Methodology 2 15
Communication Skills in French 1 15
Communication Skills in French 2 15
FR4110 Translating French Opera 15
FR4111 Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
Mediaeval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Mediaeval French Literature 15
Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
FR4125 The French Age of Enlightenment 15
Flaubert's France 15
Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea 15
A semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie 15
FR4129 Plays, Players and Playwrights: The Theatre in France 1620 - 1715 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
Creative Writing in French 15
FR4160 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
Antillean Identities 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4169 Painting and Writing: the figure of the artist in recent French Literature 15
FR4175 The 'nouveau roman': Undoing the Novel 15
Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
Modern French Thought 15
Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
African Francophone Fiction 15
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If unsure please take advice from an Adviser on the number of French credits required/allowed over Third and Fourth Years.

Film Studies joint: Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: FM4000 - FM4899
Film Studies Dissertation 30
Cinema and Politics 30
FM4104 Film and History 30
FM4106 War and Cinema 30
FM4107 Cinema and Nation 30
Cinema and Media in the Digital Age 30
Film and the Archive 30
FM4110 Images and Impact: The Uses of Film 30
FM4111 The European Crime Film 30
FM4112 Images of the Past 30
FM4113 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film 30
FM4114 Film Genres 30
Sensory Cinema 30
Stars 30
FM4117 Modernity and the Moving Image 30
FM4118 Film and Fashion 30
Silent Cinema 30
FM4121 Screen Comedy 30
FM4122 Watching the Detectives: Murder, Mystery and the Media 30
FM4123 Artists' Film and Video 30
FM4202 The Cinema in Eastern Europe 30
Asian Cinemas 30
FM4206 Cinemas of India 30
FM4207 British Cinemas: Conventions, Subversions, and Outsiders 30
City in Asian Cinema 30
Documentary Cinema 30
FM4304 Film and Sexual Identities 30
Feminist Film Studies 30
FM4308 Film Sound 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Project (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School a student may substitute 30 Level-4000 Film Studies credits for another subject.

With the permission of the Director of Teaching of Film Studies and the relevant Head of School, students may substitute 30 credits from another subject for 30 4000-level Film Studies credits.

French joint element: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Communication Skills in French 1 15 AND
Communication Skills in French 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 90 credits from French Fourth Year Optional Modules List A
FR3021 An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3025 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Nineteenth-Century French Theatre 15
Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3030 'Tartuffe' in Context, in Performance and in Translation 15
From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3076 Writing the Nineteenth Century 1: French Literature, History and Politics 1848 - 1871 15
Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3078 Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
FR3080 Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR3081 The Court of Louis XIV 15
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
Translation Methodology 1 15
Translation Methodology 2 15
Communication Skills in French 1 15
Communication Skills in French 2 15
FR4110 Translating French Opera 15
FR4111 Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
Mediaeval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Mediaeval French Literature 15
Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
FR4125 The French Age of Enlightenment 15
Flaubert's France 15
Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea 15
A semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie 15
FR4129 Plays, Players and Playwrights: The Theatre in France 1620 - 1715 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
Creative Writing in French 15
FR4160 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
Antillean Identities 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4169 Painting and Writing: the figure of the artist in recent French Literature 15
FR4175 The 'nouveau roman': Undoing the Novel 15
Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
Modern French Thought 15
Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
African Francophone Fiction 15
Dissertation on a French Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a French Topic 30
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 15
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If unsure please take advice from an Adviser on the number of French credits required/allowed over Third and Fourth Years.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).