This is a 4 year program for most students, culminating in a dissertation in year 4.
Year 1:
The core modules for the first year of Reading’s Art and Film BA program include:
- Introduction to Film
- Reading Objects, Writing Images
- Art Studio
You will also be able to choose from a list of five electives, including:
- What is the Contemporary?
- Modernisms and Mythologies
- Medium, Media & Materials
- Introduction to Theatre
- Introduction to Television
Year 2:
The second year’s core modules will include:
- Film Authorship
- Art Studio (Incl. Career Management Skills)
Again, you’ll be able to choose from several electives, including:
- Performance & Nation
- International Study Visit
- Film Forms & Cultures
- Critical Collaborative Methods
Year 3 (placement):
The only core module for year 3 is the now-familiar Art Studio. However, there are quite a few different electives which you can use to further specialise your expertise:
- World Cinema
- Work-Based Learning
- Utopias & Other Worlds
- The Director & the Theatre
- Storytelling in Film
- Research Production
- Representing Conflict on Stage & Screen
- Popular Film Genres
- Polish Film & Theatre
- Landscape & Memory
- Independent Study
- Image Action Text
- Contemporary Television Drama
- Contemporary Performance
- Contemporary Documentary
- Chinese Theatre
- Affect, Aesthetics & the Event
Year 4:
Year 4 has only two modules, the Art Studio and your Dissertation in Film.