BA (Hons) Film and English Studies will stimulate your engagement in visual and literary culture, and provide you with important skills for a variety of careers. You will develop your critical understanding of contemporary cinema, historical film movements, and a diverse range of English literature in relation to genre, period and culture. You will be challenged to apply your knowledge of film and literature in order to develop and sustain convincing arguments, and in so doing you will gain highly developed analytical, critical and communication skills. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop transferable skills and aptitudes including oral presentations, group presentations, writing short screenplays and film production dossiers. You can expect to analyse film texts, explore film histories and study national cinemas from a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives to develop the critical tools for understanding contemporary film and its connections within a wider digital culture. Alongside this exploration of film, you will cover the major literary genre (prose, drama and poetry) and develop your academic essay writing and research capabilities. In the second and third years you'll explore a range of film movements and literatures from pre-Renaissance work to contemporary literature. You will be encouraged to take an independent and individual approach to the study of literature and film, while also developing your ability to contextualise them culturally, aesthetically, politically, economically and historically. Lectures are accompanied by weekly film screenings, meanwhile in seminars you'll explore different dimensions of film and literature, and develop a deeper understanding of the pertinent issues in conjunction with your student colleagues. We encourage you to take advantage of London's theatrical and cultural life and organise trips to Shakespeare's Globe, the National Theatre and West End theatres, many of which are within a very short distance of our campus. You're also encouraged to attend literary events and exhibitions.

BA (Hons) Film and English Studies will equip you with the skills to work in the film, media and cultural industries in a range of roles, covering film curation, journalism, public relations, publishing, marketing, book-selling and arts administration. This course can also help you secure a career in business, local government and voluntary organisations where the skills of analysis, clear communication and reasoned persuasion are valued. Recent graduates from this course have become English teachers, printing assistants and artists. If you graduate from this course, you will be able to apply for further study at postgraduate level, including for a place on our full-time MA Independent Film Practice (Editing and Montage) or our part-time MA Digital Film. LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search. Our Employability Service will support you in developing your skills, finding a job, interview techniques, work experience or an internship, and will help you assess what you need to do to get the job you want at the end of your course. LSBU offers a comprehensive Employability Service, with a range of initiatives to complement your studies, including: direct engagement from employers who come in to interview and talk to students Job Shop and on-campus recruitment agencies to help your job search mentoring and work shadowing schemes.