3-Term Pathway - International Foundation Year in Social Sciences and Humanities - Continue to Bachelor of Arts - Film and Sociology

This program will prepare students for entry to Year 1 of an undergraduate degree in a wide range of subjects, including many based at the £10m LICA building. Popular subjects include law, film studies, sociology, linguistics and politics.

Taking Film and Sociology at Lancaster gives students the opportunity to learn from academics at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and the Sociology Department.

Film combines particularly well with Sociology because it examines cinema's role as a major contemporary cultural form that influences, reflects and shapes social values and beliefs. Students will examine cinema’s aesthetic importance in the context of an increasingly visual and media-oriented culture, while investigating the connections between contemporary art, theatre, music and film.

Students will be able to select from a wide range of options in both disciplines to complement the core modules. Lancaster’s film programme is academic rather than vocational, but students will have the opportunity at each year of the course to make their own digital film using the University’s state-of-the-art equipment.