Expand+Autumn Trimester - September to December
MODE OF DELIVERY: Face-to-Face

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities 25
Autonomous Student Learning 80
Lectures 10
Small Group 10
Total 125

Approaches to T...

Hide-Autumn Trimester - September to December
MODE OF DELIVERY: Face-to-Face

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities 25
Autonomous Student Learning 80
Lectures 10
Small Group 10
Total 125

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students will attend lectures that customarily include a small amount of audience response/discussion

Small-group learning classes accompany each weekly lecture. Pedagogical approaches taken in the small group environment may include task-based learning, peer and group discussion and staged debates.

Critical writing is a key element of assessed work and students will complete a scene analysis from one of the screened texts. Additionally, students will complete a terminology quiz to develop their critical vocabulary to better scaffold their writing. The final examination will assess student skill in critical writing.

Expand+FS10010 Introduction to Film and Media
Academic Year 2022/2023

The contemporary era is marked both by a proliferation of screens through which we access ‘content’, as well as fundamental and ongoing shifts in the media industries, largely dri...

Hide-FS10010 Introduction to Film and Media
Academic Year 2022/2023

The contemporary era is marked both by a proliferation of screens through which we access ‘content’, as well as fundamental and ongoing shifts in the media industries, largely driven by digital innovation. Given this context, this module aims to provide students with a scholarly understanding of a range of screen media, past and present, in order to better comprehend continuities and disruptions. Students will examine how formal elements combine to create meaning in screen texts and they will be introduced to a wide array of critical terms through which they will develop their own analyses. Through a number of detailed case studies encompassing film, television as well as emergent “new media” forms, the module will provide a foundation of methods and skills for researching and studying screen media in varied forms and contexts.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

· apply critical terms and approaches in order to analyse screen representations in their cultural contexts;

· identify aesthetic features common to different media forms;

· gather and evaluate information through structured research to inform screen analysis;

· communicate ideas and arguments coherently, using appropriate disciplinary forms and conventions of academic writing.