Film Studies and History
UCAS Code: PV13
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
including a minimum grade B in History.
Access to HE Diploma
including modules in History.
112 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications including Higher Level History at grade 6.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
UCAS Tariff
including a minimum grade B at A Level in History.
About this course
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Those who are passionate about understanding and narrating the past, about how we represent and construct the story of humankind throughout the centuries, are ideally suited for our Film and History course.
Why study Film Studies and History at Huddersfield?
* You’ll be taught and supported by enthusiastic, internationally renowned professors, researchers and media practitioners.
* You’ll be working in industry standard production facilities.
* The course will develop your abilities to analyse, research and write persuasively about a rich variety of films, shows and filmmakers, from the latest superhero blockbusters through to quirky indie movies, world cinema, and amateur YouTube releases.
* History has a 95% student satisfaction rating (NSS 2019).
* Our History modules cover a range of eras from medieval to modern times, and are geographically diverse allowing you to investigate the periods that fascinate and inspire you most.
* Explore our innovative award-winning archive at Heritage Quay and the newly opened Holocaust Learning and Exhibition Centre.
Studying film, we’ll look at a wide range of cinematic forms. From popular cinema through to challenging avant-garde works, you’ll be able to study a rich and varied selection of genres. We’ll also look at topics like national cinemas and the work of individual filmmakers. You could look at adaptation, and how great works of literature are adapted to the big screen. We also give you a chance to try your hand at film making. If you choose one of our documentary film making modules you could get behind the camera and start exploring.
Modules
Year 1
Core modules:
Texts
Video and Audio Production
Twentieth Century Britain
Writing for the Media and Storytelling
Early Medieval Europe: c500 - 1215
Year 2
Core modules:
Methods in Media, Communication and Journalism Research
Participatory Media and Fans
Planet/Hollywood: Contemporary Global Cinema
Option modules:
Choose three from a list which may include:
Work Experience Placement
Research Skills
Hands on History: Voice Film and Material Culture
Holy Wars: The Age of Crusades
Reformation and Revolution
Modern India: from Raj to Independence c.1860-1950
Hitler's Germany: Life and Death in the Third Reich
Digital Victorians
Digital History of Nazi Propaganda
Growing Up in the Past: Oral Histories of Childhood and Youth
Year 3 - optional placement year
Final Year
Core modules:
Dissertation / Practice Dissertation
Fantasy, Horror and Cult Film
Option modules:
Choose three from a list which may include:
History and Myth: Writing and Re-writing the Middle Ages
Community and Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Henry's Empire
The Elizabethan Age
The Great War: Culture and Society
Britain on the Breadline
The Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance and Memory in Wartime France
Mindsets, Institutions and Madness
The Body and the City
Bloodlands: Historical Geography of Interwar East Central Europe
India’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’: The Making and Re-Making of the World’s Largest Democracy
Assessment methods
We use a variety of assessments, including video shorts, podcasts, newsroom days, audience research portfolios, essays, production pitches, data analytics, presentations, and dissertation. This allows you the ability to tailor your degree to fit your passions, interests and strengths. You will be taught by world-leading scholars whose research is helping to shape our understanding of how media, journalism and culture operate alongside industry-leading practitioners and producers, supplemented by a variety of guest talks.
Tuition fees
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Extra funding
Please see our website for full details of the scholarship http://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-finance/undergraduate-scholarships/
The Uni
University of Huddersfield
Department of English History and Linguistics (ADEHL)
What students say
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Media studies
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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
History
Teaching and learning
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Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
After graduation
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History
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This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
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