Университет Де Монфорт, BA (Hons), Film Studies and Journalism

Film studies Year 1: Modules include: Introduction to film; introduction to media, culture and society. Year 2: International cinema and film theory; film in America and Britain, 1946-1979. Year 3: Film studies dissertation; contemporary British and American cinema; exploitation cinema; silent cinema; French cinema. Journalism Year 1: Modules include: Practical journalism 1: an introduction to United Kingdom journalism, news and news-writing; media law and public affairs: an introduction to how the law affects United Kingdom journalism and how journalism interacts with public bodies, particularly local councils, the Government and Parliament. Year 2: Practical journalism 2: this module widens students’ appreciation of the varieties of journalism, focusing on specialisms, different forms of journalistic media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and on-line, before looking at production, design and management of journalism; issues in journalism: in this modules students explore in more depth the fascinating range of issues in contemporary journalism from an academic point of view; ethical and moral issues, controversies and current affairs all play their part; this module also helps prepare students to write their own dissertation in their final year. Year 3: Practical journalism 3: this module offers students a chance to produce their own publication based on all the skills they have acquired over the previous 2 years; leading on from issues in journalism, it also allows students to explore complex moral and ethical issues and debate up-to-the-minute issues and controversies as they arise; dissertation: this module offers students the opportunity to write and research an area of journalism which specifically interests them.

The film studies course engages in a broad range of film styles and national cinemas, with distinctive emphasis on popular genre cinema; the course offers a number of options on cult films, including modules on horror and science fiction cinema and exploitation cinema; a strong vocational element runs throughout both the single and joint Honours journalism course, with an emphasis on practical skills and real world journalism practice, as well as engaging with the academic debates and issues surrounding the world of contemporary journalism.