BA Film and English
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Film and English, an English Literature and Film Studies degree examining storytelling traditions across cinema and written texts. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students can engage in extended independent research through a final-year dissertation module in either discipline. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as European Cinema, Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis, Poetic Language, and The Novel, while optional modules cover topics like World Dramas and Theory and Criticism. The second year continues with compulsory study in Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929 and The Worlding of English Literature, alongside optional modules exploring animation, digital media, corpus linguistics, and scriptwriting. In the final year, students select from a wide range of specialized optional modules spanning global screen cultures, environmental cinema, horror on film, and video games, with options to undertake either an English Dissertation or a Film Dissertation.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
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What students say
Based on about 13 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 83%
- Learning opportunities: 68%
- Assessment and feedback: 79%
- Academic support: 88%
- Organisation and management: 81%
- Learning resources: 92%
- Student voice: 71%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 7 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 50%
- Working and studying: 30%
- Further study: 10%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Media Professionals: 10%
- Secretarial and related occupations: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 80%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 45%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 35 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 5%
- West Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 10%
- London: 30%
- South East: 45%
- South West: 5%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 85%
- Baccalaureate: 10%
- Foundation course: 10%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- European Cinema
- Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis
- Poetic Language
- The Novel
- Literary Transformations
- The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern
- Theory and Criticism
- World Dramas
- Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929
- The Worlding of English Literature
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- African Freedoms and the Novel
- Animation: Technology, Culture and Industry
- Audiences: Theories, Methods, Contexts
- Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- Dark Streets and Strange Detours: Film Noir in Context
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Decolonising Modernity
- Desire and Decay: Literature of the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Digital Media and The World of Work
- Digital Media: Professional Practice
- Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
- Ghosts on Screen
- Global Cinemas
- Humanities and Professional Practice
- Mind, Matter, Machine: Writing and Technological Change
- Pirates, Princesses and the Politics of Romance
- Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
- Queering the Digital
- Retail Therapy: A Journey Through the Cultural History of Shopping
- Romantics and Victorians
- Scriptwriting
- Speech Acts
- Television Studies: Key Debates
- Women and Hollywood
- Women, Writing and the Canon, 1770-1900
- Burning Worlds, Drowning Worlds: Oil Cultures, Climate Crisis, and Traumatic Desires in World Literatures
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- American Cinema Since 1965
- American Gothic
- Authoring Austen: Writing, Reception and Adaptation
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Creative Writing in Schools
- Crime TV: Technologies of Detection
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Digital Life: Myths, Social Media, And Artificial Intelligence
- English Dissertation
- Environmental Cinema and Media
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Film Dissertation
- Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
- German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
- Holocaust Literature
- Horror on Film
- Money and Meaning in American Fiction
- Music in Film and Television
- Pirates, Princesses and the Politics of Romance
- Popular Global Screen Cultures
- Queering the Digital
- Scriptwriting
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Streaming, Social Media, and Stans: Music Culture in the Platform Era
- Telling True Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
- The Origins of Climate Crisis: Ecology in Victorian Literature
- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Culture
- Video Games in Context
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Film and English at University of Southampton earn?
The median salary is £24,000 after 15 months, £23,500 after 3 years, £30,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,500 and £37,000. The £30,000 median after five years is £2,000 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Film and English at University of Southampton do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Film and English at University of Southampton?
83% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Film and English at University of Southampton?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 131 UCAS points.
Does BA Film and English at University of Southampton include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Film and English at University of Southampton?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.