Teaching and assessment
You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.
Teaching format
You'll progress rapidly, guided by our experienced academics who will ensure you're in contact with the latest ideas, trends and technologies.
You'll take part in hands-on-workshops and practical sessions with close instruction from specialists. You'll be able to meet industry experts in our masterclasses and professional visitors programme.
Production is important to this course. You'll make films and TV shows: refining your skills and knowledge as you work through, organise and shoot your ideas and stories.
You'll explore the theories and history that make film and television what they are and that point the way towards their future. Your intellectual development and critical thinking will be supported by lectures, screenings, tutorials, workshops and round-tables.
You'll find our staff accessible and ready to discuss your ideas. With plenty of contact time, you'll never be short of support and advice.
Timetabled activities
In your first year, you can expect:
| Lectures |
3-6 hours per week |
| Seminars |
2-3 hours per week |
| Workshops |
18 hours |
| Practicals |
59 hours |
| Film Screening |
4-5 hours per week |
These figures are representative of a typical week. Your contact hours will vary throughout the year due to your module choices, non-compulsory classes, exam periods and changes to scheduled activities.
Outside your timetabled hours, you'll study independently. This may include preparation for classes, follow-up work, wider reading, practice completion of assessment tasks, or revision.
In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.
Facilities
You'll have access to exceptional facilities in our bespoke £35 arts and media complex, including:
- Three HD TV studios with industry-standard equipment that has been used for projects for the BBC and other major clients
- Two professional theatres that have data links to our TV studios for live performance broadcast and recording
- Production equipment including cameras and lenses, lighting and grip, production sound equipment and interactive media
- Post-production suites
- Media production and design labs
- 140-seat 4k digital cinema
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Teaching location
You will be based in the School of Arts & Creative Technologies on Campus East.
Most of your contact hours will be in Theatre, Film, Television, and Interactive Media with some additional teaching elsewhere on Campus East.
About our campus
Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.
Assessment and feedback
Assessment methods vary according to modules and include productions, practical exercises, presentations, essays, scripts, project proposals, reports and blogs. In the TV studio some of your work will be assessed by live observation with tutors watching you direct and crew.
In the majority of cases you will be assessed individually. The collaborative nature of the film and TV industries however means that some of your modules will involve group work. In these you will be assessed on the actual film or television programme you have produced as a team, as well as on your individual contribution to the project.
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