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Degree Programme Table: Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue (MSc) - 2 Years (Part-Time) (PTMSCILFAD1P)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Notes:
The following is the recommended programme structure for the first year of study. However, there is some flexibility over the two years; please contact your Programme Director to finalise your particular programme of study.

Please note that all optional courses are subject to availability and that some courses may have limited spaces.

Optional course(s) outside of the DPT but relevant to your programme may be substituted with the permission of your programme director and the course organiser.

While every effort will be made to ensure that timetable clashes are avoided, this cannot be guaranteed; it is your responsibility to ensure that your optional course choices do not clash with your compulsory courses.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Theories of Intermediality 1

Must be taken during Semester 1

CLLC11192 20 credits
Research Methods in Intermediality 1

Must be taken during Semester 1

ELCC11021 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Intermediality recommended options - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Decadence in European Art and Literature, 1857-1914
CLLC11026 20 credits
Global Shakespeare across Media: Performance, Cinema, Digital Cultures
ELCC11018 20 credits
Music and Image
ELCC11023 20 credits
Visualising Boccaccio's Decameron Across Arts and Media
ELCI11009 20 credits
OR

Intermediality Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Film Adaptation
CLLC11144 20 credits
Gender and Translation
CLLC11146 20 credits
Sound and Cinema
CLLC11198 20 credits
The Ghosts of Film Noir
CLLC11205 20 credits
Film Aesthetics: Art and the Moving Image
CLLC11207 20 credits
Introduction to Subtitling: Theory and Practice
CLLC11209 20 credits

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Notes:
The following is the recommended programme structure for the second year of study. However, there is some flexibility over the two years; please contact your Programme Director to finalise your particular programme of study.

Please note that all optional courses are subject to availability and that some courses may have limited spaces.

Optional course(s) outside of the DPT but relevant to your programme may be substituted with the permission of your programme director and the course organiser.

While every effort will be made to ensure that timetable clashes are avoided, this cannot be guaranteed; it is your responsibility to ensure that your optional course choices do not clash with your compulsory courses.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
MSc Intermediality: Dissertation or Practice-based Project with Reflective Essay

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

CLLC11191 60 credits
Theories of Intermediality 2

Must be taken during Semester 2

CLLC11193 20 credits
Research Methods in Intermediality 2

Must be taken during Semester 2

ELCC11022 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Intermediality recommended options - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Literature and Photography in the 20th century
CLLC11186 20 credits
Filming the Canon: Adaptation, Authorship, Alterity
CLLC11204 20 credits
Film and the Other Arts
ELCC11006 20 credits
Italy by Design: Materiality, Intermediality, and Commodification from Leonardo to the MAXXI
ELCI11006 20 credits
The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version)
ENLI11230 20 credits
OR

Intermediality Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that any courses listed here not owned by the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures have limited places available as preference is given to students from the owning school.
Preference for courses in Translation Studies will be given to students on that degree programme, and places may be limited as a consequence. Please note that students who take the Translation and Creativity course need to have another working language in addition to English (e.g., their mother tongue or B1 in CEFR, or they must have graduated with this language at UG level).
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Translation and Creativity
CLLC11127 20 credits
Cinema Auteurs
CLLC11139 20 credits
Film and Existentialism
CLLC11190 20 credits
Documentary Aesthetics
CLLC11195 20 credits
Global Women Filmmakers
CLLC11200 20 credits
The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock (PG)
CLLC11202 20 credits
Scotland on Screen
CLLC11203 20 credits
Cult Film Cultures
CLLC11208 20 credits
Black Hydropoetics: The Sea in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture
ELCH11016 20 credits
Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present
PGHC11358 20 credits
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