Student Handbook - The School of Language, Linguistics and Film

• Ability to tackle more technically challenging primary literature
• Capacity to identify own strengths and learning needs, autonomy to plan and carry
out study tasks and use, with minimum guidance, the full range of resources for the
discipline available
• Ability to apply the concepts of the theoretical models to linguistic data with minimal
guidance so as to construct (partial) analyses
• Ability to collect and organise data with a full understanding of the methodological
implications of the process
Level benchmarks for modules in film studies
Level 1: At this level students are expected to demonstrate:
• A basic factual, conceptual and historical knowledge of the field of study
• Awareness of the basic terminology and key concepts
• Basic research, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to conduct a sequence, or mise-en-scene, analysis
• Capacity to place film texts into their cultural, historical and political contexts
• Ability to construct a coherent argument
• Capacity to communicate ideas effectively in a format appropriate to the discipline
• Capacity to identify own learning needs and to develop strategies for improvement
• (and for students who opt to study film production) Video production skills in the
areas of camera, sound, editing and lighting to a basic level of competence
• (and for students who opt to study film production) The ability to write and devise a
screenplay with a narrative structure using the required standard and format
Level 2: At this level students are additionally expected to demonstrate:
• A cultivated and critical sense of a wide range of different theories of film resulting in a
more detailed factual, conceptual and historical knowledge of the field of study
• Confidence in the use of essential terminology and key concepts
• Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills
• The ability to use sequence, or mise-en-scene, analysis, within a wide range of tasks
with minimum guidance
• Sophisticated understanding of the relationship between film texts and their cultural,
historical and political contexts
• Capability and confidence in communicating ideas in a format appropriate to the
discipline
• (and for students who opt to study film production) The ability to demonstrate video
production skills related to the directing of drama in terms of working with performers,
preparing a script and blocking and staging action
• (and for students who opt to study film production) The ability to write a script as an
adaptation of a prose text and the ability to write an original screenplay to a good
standard in terms of format and layout and in relation to narrative drama (incl. plot,
characterization, genre)
Level 6: At this level students are additionally expected to demonstrate:
• The development of in-depth knowledge of selected theories of film relevant to topics
covered and resulting in areas of specialization
• Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills deployed within a wide range of
tasks with minimum guidance
• Autonomy to plan and carry out study and research tasks and to use, with minimum
guidance, the full range of resources and methodologies for the discipline
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