English and Film & TV

English and film and television studies is a degree that trains you to read and interpret the two most pervasive storytelling media of the modern era: the written word and the moving image. Both disciplines ask you to analyse how meaning is made, how narratives function, how form shapes content, and how cultural texts reflect and influence the societies that produce them. Studying them together develops a particularly rich critical vocabulary and a broad understanding of how stories work across different media.

This three-year full-time programme at Nottingham Trent University includes a sandwich year and a work placement, giving you the opportunity to spend a significant period in a professional environment before completing your studies. In a field where industry experience is consistently valued by employers, this practical grounding is a genuine differentiator. With a typical tariff of 104 points, the programme is designed to be accessible to students with real enthusiasm for literature and screen media rather than requiring the highest prior attainment.

NTU has strong links with the creative industries in the East Midlands and beyond, and the placement year reflects those connections.

You will study literature from across periods and genres alongside the history, theory, and analysis of film and television. You will learn to write analytically about novels, poems, and plays, and to apply similar critical tools to the formal elements of screen media: cinematography, editing, sound, narrative structure, and genre conventions. The combination develops your written communication, critical thinking, and cultural literacy in ways that are applicable across a wide range of professional settings.

Graduates from programmes combining English and film and television studies move into careers in publishing, journalism, broadcasting, media production, content creation, education, arts administration, and communications. The sandwich year and placement often provide direct routes into professional opportunities. Further study at postgraduate level in English, film studies, or creative writing is a natural option for those who want to specialise.