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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Stirling Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
4 Year
Bringing together theory and practice, our Film and Media course draws from the University of Stirling’s legacy as a pioneer in Film and Media research and teaching. This course not only ensures you’re well-versed in theoretical and critical aspects of the subject area, but also have the opportunity to become fully trained in practicalities such as audio production, video editing, screenwriting and more. Our emphasis on all-round training means you’ll graduate ready to follow in the footsteps of previous Stirling students who have forged successful careers in a range of media roles – from broadcasting and publishing, to advertising and public relations. Adding flexibility to your studies, you can combine Film and Media with a wide range of other courses, and tailor your degree to match your unique interests and ambitions.
This module is designed for all students with a school-leaving qualification in French. It will develop students' core written and spoken language skills and will provide an introduction to contemporary French/Francophone culture through examination of a number of texts/films. This module is split into 3 components: written language, spoken language and culture (mati?). Mati? seminars are supplemented by lectures focusing on the texts and film studied and their historical context. This module is particularly relevant to students who plan to add an international element to their degree by mastering a foreign language as well as students who plan to have a career in education (primary or secondary).
French for Beginners is an intensive course and is the first step towards joining the Advance stream at the end of semester 3. After Semester 3, there is no further differentiation between former Beginners and non-former Beginners.
This second module of Introductory French is an intensive course and a direct follow-up to the previous FREU9B1 module. It is the next step towards joining the Advanced stream at the end of semester 3 (FREU9A4), from which point on there is no further differentiation between former-Beginners and non-former Beginners.
Every day we are surrounded by media. There are now more ways to watch television than ever before, and popular films continue to be part of casual conversation and serious debate. We have access to almost limitless sources of news and are bombarded by advertising images in public and private settings, but also have increased means to discuss and contest these messages. In all these cases, the images and messages we encounter are the product of complex industries. In order to understand how media practices are changing, we need to look at their underlying structures, including funding, regulation, work, and equalities. This module provides students with the tools and theoretical underpinnings needed to analyse a diverse range of media content in greater depth by understanding its foundations and contexts.
This module is a direct continuation of the previous module FREU9A1 and, as such, continues the development of your core written and spoken language skills. The module has two components: language and culture and will provide an overview of French/Francophone culture in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914), with particular reference to the French Revolution, the French Atlantic slave trade, the Franco-Prussian war and the First World War, all of which are approached through the study of short texts and films.
This moduleequipsyouwith fundamental skills in the textual analysis of film and television. Through screenings,teaching and discussions, youare introduced to the key elements of form and style and provided with a range of techniques to study them in more detail. These skills will continue be useful in later modules when combined with other approaches to studying film and television. Although this module does not contain any practical elements, students interested in production may benefit from the module?semphasis on the close study of technique.
This module continues to develop the linguistic and analytical skills fostered by the previous module FREU9A3. It comprises two components: language and culture. It focuses on the culture and history of the French and Francophone world from the 1960s to the contemporary period. You will explore the way Francophone societies in Europe and North America changed following the Second World War and the beginning of the period of decolonisation, through the study of literature and film as durable forms of cultural expression. The aim of studying these cultural artefacts is to develop your intercultural understanding of those nations and individuals who are French-speaking; it is also an opportunity to further expand your language proficiency, enabling you to build on your comprehension of spoken and written French and acquire new vocabulary and linguistic structures.
It is now often suggested that we are living in an age of ?convergent media? ? that is to say, media that bring users, content, technologies and experiences together in new and interesting ways in the digital realm. This module is about how networked digital media bring together people and ideas, texts and images, and technologies and industries in new ways. In FMSU9A4, we will explore such topics as interpersonal communication on social media, the relationships between media technologies and cultural change, and audiences as creative producers. We will discuss how media audiences are accessing, creating, editing, organising, sharing and collaborating on media in new ways. Most of you will already be familiar with many of these practices. This module will engage the concepts that underpin such practices and we will test these concepts by doing some of these things as part of our assignments, experimenting with a range of online media tools to bring theory and practice together. You should not think of this course as a series of separate topics, but should instead be alert to connections and continuities between weeks ? as you progress through the semester, compare and contrast, and try to make connections between ideas.
This is an intensive course which builds on the foundations laid by courses FREU9B1 and FREU9B2. This module is the last module prior to joining the Advanced stream (FREU9A4) from which point there is no further differentiation between former-Beginners and non-former Beginners.
Reading Film and Television builds on skills in close analysis learned on The Moving Image, introducing key theoretical approaches to films and television programmes through weekly screenings and readings.
This module continues to develop the linguistic and analytical skills fostered by the previous module FREU9A2. It comprises two components: language and culture. It focuses on the culture and history of the French and Francophone world during the period from the start of World War II to the main period of French decolonisation in the early 1960s. This is achieved predominantly via the study of film and literature as durable forms of cultural expression. The aim of studying these cultural artefacts is to develop your intercultural understanding of those nations and individuals who are French-speaking; it is also an opportunity to further expand your language proficiency, enabling you to build on your comprehension of spoken and written French and acquire new vocabulary and linguistic structures.
If you want to create, share, or analyse media content, you need to consider who isengaging with it, how and why. Thismoduleputs the audience in the spotlight and looks at different approaches to media use as a social phenomenon undergoing significant transformations.Understanding the relationship between producers, media texts, and audiences is essential for those creating, circulating, and consuming media. But what makes people into an identifiable audience, and how can we find out about their/our experience? In this module we will be looking at different ways of thinking about the audience and at how researchers have tried to find out what and how audiences of different kinds think and act.
This dedicated language module builds on the linguistic skills, written and oral, you developed during the second year. It is intended to be relevant to all students and it deals with general skills of comprehension, writing and speaking. The blogs and passages you study each week are selected as relevant examples of journalistic and discursive prose which feature a variety of registers; they are also chosen to provide you with an awareness of current affairs in the French-speaking world which will be of benefit in writing blogs and compositions, and in your spoken language classes. In dealing with the longer passages, you will be invited to improve your skills in extracting the gist of an argument in French, and you will prepare for your own compositions by noting and examining how the articles are structured. Writing blogs and compositions in French are interlinked components of the same fundamental skills, and the class will allow you to develop your accuracy, range, and the ability to exploit the possibilities of your written French.
This module provides generic, subject-specific and language-specific (French or Spanish) education on employability and careers skills of relevance to students whose degree involves the study of French or Spanish
In this year, Students will study only optional modules.
For many students, the dissertation is the culmination of their undergraduate study. This module will enable you to undertake your dissertation project: a sustained piece of research on a clearly defined topic that you will choose in consultation with a superviso
This module is designed to prepare students for the dissertation in semester 8. It will focus on the key skills required to devise and develop a research project: using library, archive and IT resources effectively to support research; distinguishing appropriate methodological approaches to research; formulating a research question; writing a proposal; referencing accurately and professionally; and presenting research findings to an audience. It supports students through the process of defining and scoping the dissertation topic which they will research in semester 8.
Enrolment in this module is a formal requirement for students undertaking Honours dissertations in Film and Media or Art and Design. Students will have already studied a number of research methods and processes in preparation to undertake the practicalities of dissertation research and writing during the Researching Media and Culture module (FMSU9A7) in Semester 7. During that module, which is a pre-requisite for the dissertation, you will have developed a proposal for a project that forms the basis for the dissertation. In this module, you will work independently on your project with the support and guidance of a supervisor.
Documentary Production is a dissertation level practical production module. Students work in groups to create short video or audio documentaries to a high technical and editorial standard. Work produced on this module has gone on to win national awards on several occasions.
FREU9L7 written and oral language work builds on the foundations laid down in the preceding years of study. The module deals with advanced skills of written and oral expression and comprehension, as well as with translation of both journalistic and discursive prose. The topics covered in written and langage parl?lasses also aim to further develop students? awareness of French and Francophone current affairs, through in-depth engagement with advanced written and oral/aural materials including editorial-style journalism, online media coverage and journalistic blogs.
This dedicated language module builds, not only on the foundations of grammar, syntax and lexical range laid down over the preceding years of study, but also on the advanced language skills of translation, composition and oral debate and presentation honed in your final semesters of study. The module incorporates advanced skills of written and oral expression and comprehension, through translation into English, composition in French and oral/aural work including individual presentations. Through the module you will develop an in-depth understanding of and engagement with political, social and cultural topics of relevance to France and the wider Francophone world.
A dissertation is an original piece of research that aims tomake a contributionto the field. Unlike an essay, in which you will probably be responding to existing positions on a topic set by your lecturer, a dissertation is an opportunity for you to conceive, design and carry out an original research project.The module is delivered by supervision. At the beginning of the process of developing your screenwriting project, you will be assigned a supervisor, whose supervision experience and research specialism best fits your proposal. The supervisor?s role is to ensure that your project is manageable, to monitor your progress, to provide feedback on work in progress, and to provide academic guidance and support. A Screenwriting dissertation is rather different to other ways of learning that you will have previously encountered during your degree programme as your workload is much more self-directed and self-motivated,
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