REF:66-2111-7810511 - Welsh-language module options

Your comment: Media Communications/TFTS need to have some modules in welsh as it has been 2 years where there was none of my modules that could be taught in welsh, as Aber is a champion of welsh culture, (in my opinion) its disappointing Aber has no welsh taught/module for media communication. I know a few of welsh speaking lecturers in that department there should be a few spare to teach a module surely? Could TFTS have other lecturers from other uni? They do this with the History department I heard to help out? I heard they use CCC or a few from Bangor/Aber in some welsh modules.

Our response:

Thank you for your comment. The Media and Communication Studies scheme is an English-medium scheme and so P300 and all the JH combinations are advertised and taught as such. There are opportunities for Welsh-medium study within (for example) a Media and History degree, particularly in the third year. Work for the 40 credit dissertation module may be submitted in Welsh (in fact, in consultation with module tutors, any written assignment may submitted in Welsh); and students may choose up to 40 credits of modules over two years from outside their chosen degree scheme - this, again, could offer the opportunity of choosing Welsh-medium modules (usually only one 20 credit module per year). The degree in Media & Communications Studies does not include any provision in Welsh, although there have been Welsh equivalents of some modules currently offered on the M&CS scheme (Television Genre/ Genrau Teledu and Creative Documentary/ Dogfen Greadigol, for example) - these were usually offered to students as part of the Welsh-medium F&TV scheme. A number of modules which could be presented though the medium of Welsh have been suspended or withdrawn in recent years - much to the regret of the Department - not because of a lack of Welsh-medium staff but because of a lack of student demand. For many years, there has been a Welsh-medium degree scheme in Film and Television Studies (W621 Astudiaethau Ffilm a Theledu) which offers 100% of its modules through the medium of Welsh. This degree scheme is coming to an end in 2021-22 and being replaced by a new degree, BA Creu Cyfryngau, which will aim to offer creative opportunities for the study of forms across the Creative Industry spectrum. The suite of new modules being introduced as part of Creu Cyfryngau next year do not generally act as equivalents of existing English-medium modules, but stand as distinctive Welsh-medium provision their own right. I hope this answers your question, Keep well, Simon