English and Film Studies BA at Royal Holloway, University of London

This Joint Honours degree allows you to combine English and Film Studies, considering the cultural and creative impact of both literature and film. English offers you the opportunity to study the full historical range of literature in English, from Beowulf to the Booker Prize, as well as the latest developments in the field, and even to pursue your own creative writing.

Department: English  |  Duration: 3 years full time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Egham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules: Year 1: Literature and Crisis, Reorienting the Novel, Introduction to Media Histories 1, Introduction to Media Histories 2, Screen Narrative: Theory and Practice and others; Year 2: Screen Adaptations: Turning Literature into Film. Optional modules: Year 2: Middle English Poetry, Tolkien's Roots, Medieval Dream and Vision, Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages, Renaissance Literature and others; Year 3: Ideas in Contemporary Fiction, On Murder, Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays, Literature and Philosophy, Brexit, Literature and Discipline of English and others.

Career pathways

Our graduates have gone into broadcasting, film and TV production and information technology and design. We've helped to create video directors, Hollywood script supervisors, independent documentary film makers, web designers, marketing professionals and contemporary artists.

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