Study Schemes

BA  Media and History [P3V1]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

Year 1  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Year 1  Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules in their second year.

Semester 1
FM22320

Youth Cultures

FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

Semester 2
FM21920

Advertising

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:

Semester 1
FM26520

Creative Documentary

Semester 2
FM25420

Creative Studio

Year 2  Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.

Semester 1
HY22120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

Semester 2
HY23720

Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

Year 2  Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA29320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC23520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY22120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY29120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY29320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY29820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH23520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA21820

Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA24520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY25520

Famine in Medieval England

HY26520

The European Reformation

HY28420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

WH20120

Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:

Semester 1
FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM20420

The Story of Television

FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM24420

Art Cinema

Final Year  Options

Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:

Semester 1
HA39320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC33520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY32120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY39120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY39320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY39820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH33520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA31820

Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA34520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36520

The European Reformation

HY38420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

WH30120

Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):

Semester 1
FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38320

Gender and the Media

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM31920

Advertising

FM34120

Media Semiotics

FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

Semester 2
FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM33740

Documentary Production

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and TV options:

Semester 1
FM31020

Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

Semester 2
FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

FM30320

Contemporary TV

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary