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).
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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.
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
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.
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
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:
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
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):
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and TV options:
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ
Tel: Department: +44 (0) 1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Email: tfts@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary