Course summary
Designed to provide you with the necessary creative abilities and professional skills relevant to working in the film industry, this course aims to give you an understanding of the many roles in the production process. The course provides a multitude of opportunities to create practical production work while providing you with the underpinning theoretical knowledge and understanding to thrive creatively. A range of carefully designed practical film modules aims to give you an understanding of film form and the current film industry together with the creative tools and professional skills to realise your personal visions. This degree provides a framework upon which you can build appropriate academic, artistic, technical and professional skills relevant to working in either the film or education sectors. It will provide you with an intensive series of practice-based modules that allow you to develop higher-order skills in directing, editing, writing and cinematography. There are also theoretical modules to help you consolidate the learning from your creative output. The course collaborates with a variety of professional partners and offers opportunities for students to work with live clients and on industry-standard briefs as part of their learning. We offer a variety of on-location opportunities for students to thrive in a degree experience that goes beyond the realms of the classroom. “The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.” Francois Truffaut
Modules
Year One – Level 4 (Cert HE, Dip HE & BA) • ‘Pathways to Evil’: Genocide – History, Theory and Denial (20 credits; compulsory) • Academic Skills (20 credits; compulsory) • Age of Extremes: A World at War, c. 1914–1991 (20 credits; compulsory) • Conflict and War: Theory, Ethics, Practice (20 credits; compulsory) • Introduction to Ethics (20 credits; compulsory) • Power and Inequality (20 credits; compulsory). Year Two – Level 5 (Dip HE & BA) Year A Entry • Britain and the Great War (20 credits; compulsory) • Concepts of Peace: Movements, Ideas, Practices (20 credits; compulsory) • Crusading in the Middle Ages (20 credits; compulsory) • Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict (20 credits; compulsory) • Studies in Ancient Warfare (20 credits; compulsory) • The Ethics of Violence (20 credits; compulsory). Year B Entry • Civil Disobedience and the State (20 credits; compulsory) • Sun Tzu's Arts of War (20 credits; compulsory) • The Ethics of Life and Death (20 credits; compulsory) • Tyranny and Revolution in the Ancient World (20 credits; compulsory) • Enemies Within and Without: Thatcher, Reagan and the End of the Post-War Consensus (20 credits; compulsory) • War and Cinema (20 credits; compulsory). Year Three – Level 6 (BA) Year A Entry • Britain and the Great War (20 credits; optional) • Concepts of Peace: Movements, Ideas, Practices (20 credits; optional) • Crusading in the Middle Ages (20 credits; optional) • Dissertation (40 credits; compulsory) • Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict (20 credits; optional) • Studies in Ancient Warfare (20 credits; optional) • The Ethics of Violence (20 credits; optional). Year B Entry • Civil Disobedience and the State (20 credits; optional) • Dissertation (40 credits; compulsory) • Enemies Within and Without: Thatcher, Reagan and the End of the Post-War Consensus (20 credits; optional) • Sun Tzu's Arts of War (20 credits; optional) • The Ethics of Life and Death (20 credits; optional) • Tyranny and Revolution in the Ancient World (20 credits; optional) • War and Cinema (20 credits; optional). Prospective students should be aware of the following: • Not all optional modules are offered every year • Optional modules are delivered subject to sufficient student numbers • Language modules are optional/compulsory/core according to linguistic ability • There are many Level 5 and Level 6 versions of the same module. Students can only take this module once; this depends on which year the modules are offered in.
Assessment method
Assessment will primarily be via coursework assignments.
How to apply
29Jan
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Application codes
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Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 96 - 112 points
Student Outcomes
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Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
Go onto work and study
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| EU | £13500 | Year 1 |
| International | £13500 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
College Road
Carmarthen
SA31 3EP