IELTS: 7.0 overall. Writing 7.0. No other subscore lower than 5.5.
Pearson Test of English: 69 overall. Writing 69. No other subscore lower than 51.
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE): ISE IV.
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) grade C.
Across the academy globally, dialogues between those studying literary and digital art forms are reshaping how we understand, and work with, narrative and storytelling. As part of a wider commitment to nurturing these discussions, Royal Holloway is now offering a B.A in Literature and the Digital Arts.
This exciting new degree will develop your awareness of the particular characteristics of narrative in literary and digital contexts. You will investigate narrative practices and devices in a variety of domains, gaining a theoretical and practical training in what narrative is what it can be in new media. From more traditional and historical narratives through to early internet storytelling and digital arts to contemporary narratives in interactive media and virtual reality, you’ll study the ways in which digital life and writing affect and transform each other.
Students entering work in the creative industries are best-placed to innovate in fields such as video game design, online publishing and broadcasting, animation and video and audio production, if they can first draw on a rigorous and robust sense of how different narratives operate.
In year one of the degree, you will sharpen your knowledge of the structures and effects of different storytelling in classes taught by experts across the English and Media Arts departments. By year two, you will have developed a conceptual framework and vocabulary for discussing narrative in a range of contexts, and in your third year you will gain hands-on experience in producing your own media. The basis for all of this innovative work will be your deep thinking about how literature and the digital arts are in mutually-nourishing relation.
Study a unique course on narrative from literary history to contemporary digital storytelling.
Gain expertise in storytelling in literature, film, TV, videogames, immersive and other media.
Option for practical work in digital creative writing.
Work towards your future ambitions with an employability focussed pathway into the digital and creative industries.
Enjoy a unique blend of both theoretical rigour and creative-critical work.
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Core Modules
Year 1
Digital Storytelling
Introduction to Film Narrative
Reorienting the Novel
Thinking as a Critic
Introduction to Poetry
Year 2
Digital Aesthetics
Literature and the Digital
Creative Writing: Structure and Style
Year 3
You must take two of the following modules:
Media Arts Dissertation
Independent Praxis Project
English Dissertation
Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
Optional Modules
There are a number of optional course modules available during your degree studies. The following is a selection of optional course modules that are likely to be available. Please note that although the College will keep changes to a minimum, new modules may be offered or existing modules may be withdrawn, for example, in response to a change in staff. Applicants will be informed if any significant changes need to be made.
Year 1
All modules are core
Year 2
Creative Interactive Media
Videogames: Culture, Politics, History
Documentary
Film Theory: Hitchcock and Point of View
The Creative Industries
Television Histories
Podcasting
Post-Classical Hollywood
Modernism and Avant Garde Film
Modernisms
Literary Adaptations: American Dystopias
Creative Writing: Structure and Style
Frankenstein, Text, Context, Intertexts
Year 3
Television and Digital Cultures
Transnational Cinema 1
Television Histories
The Poetics of Contemporary Television
Melodrama
Contemporary British Cinema
Political Cinema: From Eisenstein to Youtube
Transnational Cinema 2
Media Technologies
Hollywood Renaissance
Contemporary British Cinema 2
Non-Fiction Film
Film Form
Queer Histories: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian British and Irish Fiction
Ritual & Society in C19th Fiction and Painting
Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
Interrogations of Culture
Literature and Philosophy
Choosing English and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway will give you the critical and theoretical skills to understand storytelling and its histories and futures – meaning you will be well equipped to pursue roles across many creative industries. You’ll gain knowledge of industry standard tools used in digital storytelling and creative production, along with impeccable academic writing skills – all of which will give you advantages in the employability market, ensuring you possess the talents that employers are looking for.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
