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Our four-year BA Film Studies (including foundation year), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance. This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study.

In this degree, by combining your study of history with film, you learn how history – its documentation and study – has changed since the advent of the moving pictures. Our course allows you to explore history and film studies, and graduate with a strong competence in both disciplines.

BA Film and Journalism at Essex offers a creative, flexible degree with a strong foundation for employability. Your degree is balanced 50-50 between the disciplines of Film and Journalism, but there will be many modules where the two disciplines come together, for example in modules such as ‘Documentary Filmmaking' and ‘Advanced Practical Journalism.' On the Journalism side, you will become thoroughly grounded in the theory and practice of journalism, develop your craft of writing and broadcasting skills to a high level, and make sound editorial judgements.

Refine your critical skills and nurture your thinking about film and literature. Explore cinema and other media through cultural analysis, the impact of changes in technology and aesthetics, and cinema as a creative outlet, to discover how film developed in the modern world.

Deepen your knowledge of our increasingly interconnected world, whilst building expertise in human rights. Develop your confidence to advocate for social change

BA Global Studies and Latin American Studies tackles today's most pressing issues taking a global perspective to face contemporary challenges.

BA Social Change tackles issues from ethics to sustainability, offering the tools required to address today's pressing social problems and transform society.

On our BA Global Studies degree you study topics from a range of subjects to develop global perspective and a wide understanding of complex global issues.

Investigate how democracies operate, how our world is shaped by dominant ideas of capitalism and colonialism, and how historical events affect current affairs.

Take your first steps towards professional registration as a Social Worker with our BA Social Work course.