Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required Modules (120 credits)
You are required to take:
- Formations of Film Studies: An Advanced Introduction to the Field (30 credits)
- London Film Cultures (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules (60 credits)
You are required to take 30 to 60 credits (depending on your pathway) from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
- Topics in Global Cinema (15 credits)
- Topics in European Cinema (15 credits)
- Topics in Asian Cinema (15 credits)
- Topics in British Cinema (15 credits)
- Topics in American Cinema (15 credits)
- Genre, Media & Form (15 credits)
- History, Society & the Screen (15 credits)
- Media, Space & Place (15 credits)
- Critical Media Practice (15 credits)
You can also select from a range of Master’s modules offered across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or Global Institutes, subject to approval
If you are taking the Film & Philosophy pathway you are required to take at least 30 credits from a list of options which may typically include:
- Feeling Cinema (15 credits)
- Thinking Cinema (15credits)
- Media Aesthetics (15 credits)
Up to 30 credits from Master’s modules offered by similar Departments within the University of London (Birkbeck, SOAS, Goldsmiths, UCL and QMUL), subject to their approval.
Teaching methods - what to expect
All our modules are taught through a variable combination of screening, lectures, seminars, and workshops.
Full-time students will be provided with at least six hours teaching per week in the first semester and at least six hours of teaching per week in the second semester.
Part-time students will be provided with at least four hours of teaching per week in the first semester, four hours of teaching per week in the second semester, at least two hours of teaching per week in the first semester of the second year and at least two hours per week in the final semester.
We will expect you to undertake 32 hours of independent study.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026