192 NQF credits


Convenor

Dr Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk


Admission requirements

(a) Faculty requirements are set out under rules FM3.

(b) Specialisation requirements:

  • Completion of an Honours degree or a four-year degree with a focus on Film Studies or cognate disciplines.

Acceptance will be on the recommendation of the Convenor, working in collaboration with the programme committee, who will consider applications and may interview candidates. Normally candidates will be expected to have an upper second or better result for their honours degree.


Prescribed curriculum:

Master’s students are required to complete a minor dissertation and four taught courses of which no more than two can be at HEQSF level 8 (4000 level).

Compulsory (Core) courses  

NQF credits    

HEQSF level  

FAM5006W 

 

Minor Dissertation 

96 

FAM5039F 

 

Approaches to African Cinema 

24 

FAM5047F/S 

 

Contemporary Moving Image Theories.                                       

 

24 

Elective courses:

If students have already taken any of the compulsory courses, or an equivalent course elsewhere, they may be allowed to substitute another course with the permission of the convener. In the overall choices, at least two of the courses chosen must be at the 5000 level.

Recommended Elective Courses: 

NQF credits    

HEQSF level  

FAM4004S 

 

Race and Gender in Popular Culture

24 

FAM4017F 

 

Advanced Television Analysis 

24 

FAM4034S 

 

Theories and Forms of Adaption 

24 

FAM4036S 

 

Film and Environment 

24 

FAM4038F 

 

Authorship in Cinema 

24 

FAM4039F 

 

Documentary Film: Forms and Theories