Music and Film Studies degree (BA)

• 260-300 points

Please also read our Entry Requirements section.

For joint honours degrees you should also look at the entry requirements for your other chosen subject.

• The School of Music at Bangor has dedicated facilities, and is world renowned as both a research and teaching School.
• The University has a dedicated School of Creative Studies and Media building situated overlooking the beautiful Menai Strait and housing its own digital cinema, performance space, creative writing and journalism room and WIFI meeting area. It is also the home of a number of national and international research, development and outreach programmes in film studies and creative industries. The University has a fully equipped Media Centre, with film editing suites, new media suites, production studios and media/film equipment available to students.
• Bangor has been the location of a number of festivals, is a regular site for visiting film- and media-makers creative writers, musicians and dramatists, and encourages students to engage widely with such areas as new media, journalism and cross-arts activity.
• We are committed to teaching in small groups and the majority of our modules are delivered through weekly workshops or seminars.
• This course is strengthened by Bangor's close links with many outside bodies, including the local, national and international film studies and media making communities in the USA, Australasia and Europe, and those working in the field of Music. Staff are practising professionals, who work on joint projects and act as advisers to research councils, arts councils and other bodies.
• Sponsorship and scholarship opportunities are available on a competitive basis.
• Final-year projects are often carried out in collaboration with a company and could include working in a team with students from creative arts degree courses.

This section provides an outline of the content of this Music and Film Studies BA (Joint Hons) course. Each year you'll study a series of modules, some of these are compulsory and others can be selected from a range of optional modules.

A total of 120 credits must be taken in each year. Modules to choose from can include:

Film Studies

Year 1

60 credits from:

• Language of Film (20)
• Introduction to New Media (20)
• Introduction to Film History (20)
• American Television Culture (20)
• Media and Popular Music Culture (10)
• Essentials of Media Production (20)
• Introduction to European Cinema (10)
• Saints, Geniuses, Stars (20)
• Animation from Mickey to Manga (20)
• Women on Film (20) 

Year 2

60 credits from:

• Standard Media Production (20)
• Games and Virtual Environments (20)
• Marketing Creativity (20)
• Multimedia (20)
• Documentary and Drama (20)
• Film Theory/Film Culture (20)
• Writing for Film and the Media (20)
• French Film 1895-1950 (20)
• Bodily Cultures (20)
• Essential Film Production (20)
• World Cinema (20)
• Hollywood (20)

Year 3

60 credits from:

• Individual Project (20) (core)
• Advanced Media Production (20)
• Development of Public Relations (20)
• British Cinema (20)
• America on Film (20)
• Scripts for Theatre and Television (20)
• Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20)
• Creating Documentaries (20)
• East Asian Media and Culture (20)
• Page and Screen: France (20)
• Adaptations in European Cinema (20)
• Advanced Games (20)
• Applied Film Production (20)
• Celtic Film (20)

Music

Year 1

60 credits from:

• Monteverdi to Mahler (20)
• Harmony and Counterpoint (20)
• Composition (20)
• Practical Music Technology (10)
• An Introduction to Early Music (10)
• Twentieth-Century Music (10)
• Music Cultures of the World (20)
• Media and Popular Music Culture (10)
• Solo Performance (20)
• Performance and Interpretation (10) 

Year 2

60 credits from:

• Cerdd. Metcalf, Sam a Barrett (10)
• The Violin in World Culture (10)
• Christian Church 2 (10)
• Choral Music 1750-1830 (10)
• Songs of Protest (10)
• Minimalism (10)
• The Twentieth-Century Symphony (10)
• J. S. Bach (10)
• Purcell in the Theatre (10)
• Bartok (10)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (10)
• Debussy and Ravel (10)
• Orchestrations and Arranging A (10)
• Composition A (10)
• Orchestrations and Arranging B (10)
• Composition B (10)
• Ensemble Performance 1 (10)
• Historical Performance Studies (10)
• Solo Performance (20)
• Ensemble Performance 2 (10)
• Conducting (10)
• Writing about Music (10)
• Tonal Studies A (10)
• Ethno A: Ethno in Action (10)
• Welsh Music Studies A: 20th-Century (10)
• Arts Administration (10)
• Recording Techniques (10)
• Wagner in the Theatre (10)
• Schenkerian Techniques (10)
• Research Project (10)
• Notation and Editing (10)
• Tonal Studies B (10)
• Music in the Community (10)
• Community Arts Project (10)

Year 3

60 credits from:

• Supplementary Study (10)
• Orchestration and Arranging A (10)
• Composition A (10)
• Orchestration and Arranging C (10)
• Songs of Protest (10)
• The Twentieth-Century Symphony (10)
• J. S. Bach (10)
• Purcell in the Theatre (10)
• Bartok (10)
• Writing about Music (10)
• Tonal Studies A (10)
• Ethno A: Ethno in Action (10)
• Welsh Music A: 20th-Century (10)
• Arts Administration (10)
• Teaching Techniques (10)
• Recording Techniques (10)
• Ensemble Performance 1 (10)
• Historical Performance Studies (10)
• Composition (project) (20)
• Composition (project) (30)
• Composition (project) (40)
• Dissertation (20)
• Dissertation (30)
• Dissertation (40)
• Edition (20)
• Edition (30)
• Edition (40)
• Tonal Music Project (20)
• Tonal Music Project (30)
• Tonal Music Project (40)
• Solo Performance (20)
• Solo Performance (30)
• Solo Performance (40)
• Supplementary Study (10)
• Orchestration and Arranging B (10)
• Composition B (10)
• The Violin in World Culture (10)
• Christian Church 2 (10)
• Choral Music 1750-1830 (10)
• Minimalism (10)
• Wagner in the Theatre (10)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (10)
• Debussy and Ravel (10)
• Schenkerian Techniques (10)
• Research Project (10)
• Notation and Editing (10)
• Tonal Studies B (10)
• Ethno B: Music in Africa (10)
• Music in the Community (10)
• Community Arts Project (10)
• Editing Fifteenth-Century Music (10)
• Ensemble Performance 2 (10)
• Conducting (10) 

Modules our students are currently studying...

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Music and Film Studies degree (BA/MUSFS)

• Year 1 modules
• Year 2 modules
• Year 3 modules

* Please note that due to the dynamic nature of our degree programmes specific topics of study/modules are occasionally subject to change.

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Music and Film Studies offers a balance of practical and critical tasks. In Film Studies you will explore a variety of films and film practices, having the opportunity to explore work from the past and present and to consider both the application of ideas to your own productions, and/or the critical study of film. In Music modules are also either practical or critical, and offer a wide variety of choices.  Much of your study will be done in small group teaching.

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