Year 1: Communicating in film; film studies (themes and ideas); introduction to media and cultural studies; issues in media, politics and culture. Year 2: Media, image, power; theory and popular cinema; body, identity and society; documentary and experimental film (theory and practice); issues in film history; screenwriting the short film; travelling cultures (hybridity and globalisation). Year 3: Contemporary theoretical perspectives; culture, consumption and identity; documentary and experimental film (theory and practice); film and the cultural sector; media practices; dissertations.