Film Studies and Arabic
University of ManchesterUndergraduate BA (Hons) Full-time with time abroad 4 Years Digital media, production, and technologyMedia studiesPR and communicationsLanguagesFilm studiesPhotography
A-Level Entry
ABB
About this course
The Joint Honours in Film Studies provides you with a thorough grounding in film theory and history, as well as the opportunity to develop specialist areas of interest alongside your education in Arabic language and culture.You will expand your experience of film through taught units and screenings that focus on both classical and contemporary films, covering a wide range of film cultures from around the world. You will study mainstream and non-mainstream films in order to broaden your understanding of the history of film, as well as the debates and issues that are informing and generated by current practice in film and shaping its future. As you enhance your skills of close analysis, you will also develop an understanding of how film engages with socio-cultural and political concerns, placing the films you study in their historical context as well as thinking about current debates and future challenges for cinema as a medium. The course emphasises historical and theoretical approaches to studying film rather than practical production. You have the opportunity to achieve near-native proficiency in modern Arabic while studying the language within its cultural and historical context. You will also look more widely at Arab culture and literature from the medieval period to the present day, and be introduced to social and cultural trends in the Arab Middle East and beyond. The range of culture units offered across all years of the programme combine the study of the history, politics, literary, and visual culture of the Arab world and are taught by a range of specialists within these fields. The course is carefully structured so you can measure your progress step by step. Learning modern Arabic also opens the door to the vast literature of classical Arabic, including religious and secular texts, and provides a perfect platform from which to learn one or more of the colloquial dialects. You will spend your third year studying abroad at an academic institution in an Arab country such as Jordan, Egypt or Morocco, an ideal way to improve your fluency in the language while gaining a fascinating first-hand experience of the Arab world.
Film Studies
Arabic
The course unit details listed below are those you may choose to study as part of this programme and are referred to as optional units. These are subject to change and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this programme. Although language units may show here as optional, they are a mandatory part of your modern languages degree and you will take the units relevant to your level of language in each year of study. It is compulsory to study language at all levels of your modern languages degree.
Entry Requirements
A-Level Grades ABB
BTEC DDM
Career Prospects
Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:
3412 Authors, writers and translators
1133 Public relations and communications directors
3417 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators
3416 Arts officers, producers and directors
2472 Archivists, conservators and curators
4135 Library clerks and assistants
Course Details
- Qualification
- Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
- Study Mode
- Full-time with time abroad
- Duration
- 4 Years
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Manchester
- Scheme
- Undergraduate
- Subjects
- Digital media, production, and technology, Media studies, PR and communications, Languages, Film studies, Photography