Film Studies: The course for you?

If you enjoy watching a wide range of films from around the world and if you are interested in acquiring the critical and creative tools to analyse them in relation to questions of style, technology, society, and industry, then this may be the course for you.

You will work in small groups to debate the topics that arise in lectures and seminars and to make short creative pieces. Classes are taught by experts in their field, notably Irish cinema, film theory and criticism, digital storytelling and screenwriting.

While you will learn some basic practical issues involved in digital video production, including how to write scripts and how short videos are made, the course as a whole is geared toward critical engagement with film and digital media. Our students are active in many different societies, including DU Film Society and the student-run film magazine, Trinity Film Review.

Graduate skills and career opportunities

A degree in Film Studies offers career opportunities in many areas such as the film industry; television; journalism; digital media; reviewing and criticism; arts administration; advertising; marketing.?

Recent graduates of Film Studies at Trinity have gone on to be involved in the film industry in a number of ways, from directing feature length films to editing, scriptwriting, production and administration. A number of our graduates have gone on to further study in film and associated areas. This degree also offers opportunities in the many general areas open to arts graduates, such as administration, teaching, civil and public service.