Bachelor of Arts - Film Studies (Honours)

BA (Hons) Film Studies examines cinema critically and historically: film theory and aesthetics, national and world cinemas, genre and authorship, the industrial history of the medium, and contemporary screen culture across streaming and transmedia forms, developed toward a research dissertation.

The discipline trains a specific and marketable capacity — watching closely and writing precisely about what is seen — and assessment builds it through sustained analytical writing, comparative essays and research projects, alongside screenings and seminars that treat film as an object of serious study.

One useful clarification for families paying fees: this degree produces writers, researchers and industry professionals rather than filmmakers, and its transferable output is sustained analytical writing under deadline — a capability that serves marketing, publishing, research and communications careers alongside the film sector itself. Students should build a public writing habit early, since published reviews and features open more doors in this field than transcripts do. The £16,800 fee applies across the three recorded September entry cycles, and Leicester’s independent cinema and festival culture supplies programming and reviewing opportunities alongside study.

Industry-facing modules cover how films are financed, distributed, programmed and marketed, which is where most film graduates actually work, and Leicester’s independent cinema culture provides opportunities for programming and festival involvement alongside study.

Entry roles in development, distribution, programming and film marketing pay £19,000–£24,000, with London dominant and the analytical writing skills transferring into wider media and content careers. As a completed honours degree the course qualifies for the Graduate Route at the 18-month post-January-2027 term, dependants excluded on taught study.