Spotlight on DBS's Film Studies programme
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From Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, films have captures the hearts and minds of people around the world. The creation of these imaginary worlds, that takes the audience on an emotional journey, has made the area of Film Studies increasingly more popular for students.
The BA (Hons) in Film Studies offered by DBS is a three year full-time Level 8 programme. It offers students an opportunity to embark upon an invigorating and detailed exploration of this most pervasive and compelling of mediums. Across the three years students will engage with the full range of critical, theoretical, historical and other relevant debates that have accompanied the evolution of the cinema. But not only that, students will also have the opportunity to experience the practical aspect of the subject and discover the many ways in which the practical and the critical combine to further develop your understanding of how films work.
The programme content of the BA (Hons) in Film Studies provides students will a strong understanding of film in three complementary and interlocking elements, the critical, the practical, and the developmental.
In Year 1 students make a short film and also do a practical photography module that culminates in an exhibition.
In Year 2 students do a scriptwriting module and then make another short film.
In Year 3 students are also able to produce practical projects if they choose to. There are a huge amount of career opportunities open to students from this programme. Graduates from the BA (Hons) in Film Studies will be extremely well-placed to make their next developmental step a significant one. The wide range of knowledge that students obtain with this programme will allow them to move into a variety of creative and cultural industries including film and film-related employment, advertising, marketing, public relations, journalism, publishing and onto vocational television, broadcasting. But thats not all! Graduates from this programme will also be able to enter other sectors where a good Arts degree is recognised as being beneficial such as the Civil Service, education, teaching, eisure and tourism, business, IT, multimedia, law, and librarianship, to name a few! But if you arent ready to enter the work force, students may go on to postgraduate study in areas directly related to the study of Film.
To apply for this course through CAO, enter the code DB567 in one of the 10 spaces in the Level 8 code list.
For more information about this programme and others like it offered by DBS check out our website. Alternatively, our admissions office operates a drop in service from 8:45 - 5:15 Monday to Friday in our Aungier Street building and can be contacted at 01-4177500 or by emailing admissions@dbs.ie
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