Students will have access to world-class postgraduate teaching and research at Birkbeck, and spend one term abroad at a leading university in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,the Netherlands, Spain, or Canada. This is the only Master's degree in film and screen media in the UK that includes an international exchange with prestigious European and North American universities.
The Master's degree in Film and Screen Media (with Study Abroad) at Birkbeck, University of London encourages students to explore a wide variety of screen media in historical, sociological, aesthetic and anthropological terms and, also, in a variety of cultural and national contexts.
Students can personalise their MA studies and specialise in areas of film and screen media that match intellectual interests and career goals, and for the study abroad element, students can choose the university with the specific strengths and specialisms that will help their develop and deepen particular film and screen media interests. Students will need to have good or very good knowledge of at least one European language in order to take full advantage of this course (for Montreal this language is French). Some universities offer language instruction for Birkbeck students, to help them improve their language skills.
This course has three other pathways: MA Film and Screen Media, MA Film and Screen Media (with Television) and MA Film and Screen Media with Film Programming and Curating.
Partner Institutions
- University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
- University degli Studi di Udine
- University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
- University de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dfense
- University de Lige
- Ruhr University Bochum
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
- University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
- University Lille 3
- University degli Studi Roma 3
- University of Amsterdam
- University de Montral
