FTV/ Latin

Film and television studies alongside Latin is a combination that bridges the moving image cultures of the present with one of the foundational literary traditions of Western civilisation. Latin opens up the literature, rhetoric, history, and philosophy of ancient Rome, texts that have shaped European culture, language, and thought for more than two thousand years. Film and television studies examines how moving image media tell stories, construct meaning, and shape the ways in which audiences understand the world.

Together they develop a mind that can read across very different kinds of texts and that is alert to the long histories that contemporary media inherit and transform.

At the University of Glasgow this four-year MA programme includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to study in another country and to encounter different traditions in both classical scholarship and screen media. In Latin you will read Virgil, Ovid, and other poets, as well as Roman drama, oratory, history, and biography, developing skills in close linguistic and literary analysis and engaging with Roman political and social history, philosophy, religion, and art. In film and television studies you will develop critical frameworks for the analysis of screen media, engaging with the theories, histories, and debates that shape the field.

The combination is intellectually demanding and produces graduates with an unusually wide range of analytical and cultural resources.

Graduates from this kind of humanities combination work in a wide range of fields, including broadcasting, publishing, journalism, education, archives and heritage, cultural policy, and the creative industries. The analytical rigour developed through classical language study combined with the media literacy of film and television studies is a distinctive preparation for any role that involves serious engagement with text, image, and culture. Further study at postgraduate level in film studies, classical studies, or media and cultural studies is a natural next step for those with an appetite for advanced research.