Undergraduate students studying in the Monica Partridge Digital Hub

Film and Screen Studies BA Hons

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

You watch. You binge. You play.
You’re entertained, informed, influenced and connected.
Our degree helps you to understand how this happens - and the opportunities to get involved.

Understand the theory

You’ll look at screen media beyond the TV and film sets:

  • as an economic sector and a place to work
  • how media industries have developed and how they operate around the world
  • who are the audiences and how are they changing
  • how the media reflects diverse societies and influences them
  • how creative decisions are made and who decides how and what stories get told
  • the impact of new platforms and new technologies

As you progress through the course you’ll specialise and build work around your own ideas.

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

Evolution and Dynamics of Change in the Screen Industries

Mandatory

Year 1

Studio project 1A

Mandatory

Year 1

Studio project 1B

Mandatory

Year 1

Ways of Seeing, Hearing and Reading

Mandatory

Year 1

Institutions and Practices

Mandatory

Year 1

Global Media and Cultural Flows

Optional

Year 1

Sustainability 1a

Optional

Year 1

Sustainability 1b

Mandatory

Year 2

Studio project 2A

Mandatory

Year 2

Studio project 2B

Mandatory

Year 2

Encountering Culture: Media, Art and Screen Experiences

Mandatory

Year 2

Objects and Technologies

Optional

Year 2

Beyond the Screen: Franchising, Transmedia and More

Optional

Year 2

The Secret of Success: Manufacturing Value in the Screen Industries

Optional

Year 2

British Empire and its Cultural Legacy

Optional

Year 2

Cultures of Collecting and Collections

Optional

Year 2

Travelling Stories - Narrative Locations

Optional

Year 2

Emotions, Affect and the Senses

Optional

Year 2

Arts Work Placement Module

Mandatory

Year 3

Studio Project - Level 3

Optional

Year 3

Attractions Distractions

Optional

Year 3

The Unseen Industry: Distribution and Platforming in the Screen Industries

Optional

Year 3

The Cultural Sector Now

Optional

Year 3

Professional Practice: Festivals

Optional

Year 3

Censoring Stories

Optional

Year 3

African and Afro-Diasporic Visual Cultures: 1900s to the present

Optional

Year 3

Playful Experiences

Optional

Year 3

Protest, Dissent and Civil Society

Optional

Year 3

The Outmoded

Optional

Year 3

Sound and Everyday Life

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Tuesday 29 October 2024. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

Teaching and learning

Careers

Trent and Highfields lake

Before my course, I always just talked about what I’d seen in film. With the course, I understood it’s important to read about others and see how we change and develop, how we can take from the past and implement it in the present. I’ve got a better understanding of the industry now – where it’s been, where it is, and where it might be in the future. 

Melania Burlacu

Open Day June 2022