Film & Television Studies/Scottish Literature

Film and television studies combined with Scottish literature is a pairing that makes particular sense at a Scottish university in a city with a distinctive cultural identity and a vibrant screen industry. Film and television studies examines moving image media as art, industry, and cultural force, asking how films and television programmes are made, how they mean, and what they reveal about the societies that produce and consume them. Scottish literature brings you into contact with one of Europe's richest and most undervalued literary traditions, from the makars of the fifteenth century through Burns and Scott to the remarkable flourishing of contemporary Scottish writing.

At Glasgow, whose film and television studies lecturers are leading researchers in the field and whose connections with Glasgow's creative and cultural organisations are reflected in the curriculum, this four-year full-time degree gives you genuine depth in both subjects. You will engage with national and international film and television cultures, theory and history, and with the cultural policy contexts that shape the screen industries, including contributions from policymakers and practitioners. Scottish literature runs alongside this, giving you a rich grounding in the Scots and Gaelic literary traditions and their relationship to broader Scottish and British cultural history.

A year abroad provides an international dimension, and the typical entry tariff of 200 points reflects the academic expectations of a research-intensive university.

Graduates go on to careers in film and television production, criticism and journalism, broadcasting, education, heritage, cultural policy, and a wide range of roles in the Scottish and wider UK creative industries. The combination of media literacy and literary-critical skill is valued wherever cultural analysis, communication, or content creation is required. Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in film studies, Scottish literature, or media studies.