Arts and Human Sciences (AHS) Undergraduate Prospectus
BA (Hons)
Our Combined Degree programmes offer you the Our Combined Degree programmes offer you the
opportunity to combine two subjects - enabling opportunity to combine two subjects - enabling
BA (Hons)
Film Studies
you to study a greater breadth of subjects to suit you to study a greater breadth of subjects to suit
your interests, broaden your vocational skills and your interests, broaden your vocational skills and
International Politics
enhance your career prospects. enhance your career prospects.
Combined Degrees
Location Location
Combined Degrees
Southwark Southwark
Duration Duration
3 years (full-time excluding placements) 3 years (full-time excluding placements)
Arts and Human Sciences Arts and Human Sciences
Course description Lectures and seminars are accompanied
Start date Start date
Course description graduates have entered. This includes
As a combined subject, Film Studies by weekly film screenings and you will
September September
International Politics as a combined teaching, the media, social work,
offers a stimulating, rigorous and be given the opportunity to develop
Course contact Course contact
degree blends political theory, political administration, youth and community
critical understanding of historical transferable skills and aptitudes
Dr. Iris Luppa Dr Adrian Budd
science, political economy, area studies work, and work at various levels of
film movements and contemporary including group presentations and
luppai@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5420 buddam@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5746
and international relations to provide government – including within foreign
(AHS)
cinema. The focus of learning will be writing short screenplays and film
How to apply How to apply
an in depth study of international ministries and national UN delegations.

(AHS)
on the cultural, aesthetic, political and production dossiers.
Via UCAS Via UCAS
political structures and processes.
economic importance of film, past and The component units analyse the key Additional notes
Typical offer Typical offer
present, and this is recognised and Career opportunities
5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at Grade C 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at Grade C
actors in the international political International Politics as a combined
elaborated in distinct areas of study, Graduates can expect to enter the
or above and 160 UCAS Tariff Points or above and 160 UCAS Tariff Points
environment - including the EU, the degree is part of part of the Social
such as world cinema, Hollywood and film, media and cultural industries in US, and post-colonial states, key and Policy Studies Scheme. The
Content overview Content overview
representation, and the relationship a wide range of roles, including film
Year One Year One
issue areas - including human rights, undergraduate social and policy studies
between film and digital media. curation, journalism, public relations
– The Rise of Cinema Compulsory
citizenship, and governance; and courses at LSBU are organised into
and administration. Former students
– Reading the Screen – Introduction to Politics and Society
important interstate and trans-national a scheme in which students share a
– Film and Representation – Politics, Decision Making and Democracy
You will analyse film texts, explore have gone on to work for Paramount,
– Authorship in Cinema – Political Theory in its Social Context
relations and processes - including common Year One before going on to
film histories and study national Disney and Metro-Tartan. Successful
Year Two – Social and Political Economy
security and migration. The debate specialise in one of a wide choice of
cinemas from a variety of theoretical completion of the course can lead to
– Core Year Two
around globalisation will be addressed subject areas. The common Year One
– Verbal into Visual Narratives Compulsory
and interdisciplinary perspectives, and postgraduate study at LSBU on the MA
– Hollywood Cinema – European Politics in Transition:
throughout. of the Scheme includes units such as:
develop the critical tools necessary for programmes in New Media, and Media
– Politics and Film Continuity and Change
an introduction to politics and society;
the understanding of contemporary and Cultural Studies.
Options – Mini Project
Career opportunities social and political economy; and
– Italian Neorealist Cinema – Modern Ideologies
film theory and its connections within
– The City, the Subject and the Digital Image – Political Economy of Developing Societies
The skills and knowledge gained whilst political theory in its social context.
wider digital culture.
– Popular Indian Cinema and the Emergence of – Post-war West European Politics
studying International Politics as a These units provide the key building
– Bollywood – The Struggle for Citizenship: Social Movements,
combined degree are widely valued by blocks for more specialist study at
Year Three Mobilisation and the Vote
– Core Year Three
employers. This is reflected in the wide Levels Two and Three.
– The British Film Industry Compulsory
range of careers that our previous
– Representing Gender in Film – EU Politics in the 21st Century:
– Options From Markets to Citizenship
– Art, Technology and Revolution in the – International Politics in the Global Sphere
20th Century – Transatlantic Relations: the US and
– Shakespeare on Film Europe since 1945
– Third Cinema – War and its Opponents
– Dissertation
Combinations offered with Film Studies
For full information on Combined Degrees
Combinations offered with International Politics
Major/Minor UCAS Code Combination code
For full information on Combined Degrees at LSBU, see page 260.
Major/Minor UCAS Code Combination code
at LSBU, see page 260.
Film Studies with Sociology P3L3 FSWSoc International Politics with Criminology L2M9 IPWCr
Joint International Politics with Law L2M1 IPWL
Film Studies and English PQH3 FSE International Politics with Media Studies L2P3 IPWMS
Film Studies and Media Studies PP39 FSMS International Politics with Sociology L2L3 IPWSoc
International Politics with Social Policy L2L4 IPWSP
Joint
International Politics and Criminology LM22 IPCr
International Politics and Sociology LL23 IPS
International Politics and Social Policy LL24 IPSP
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