BA
Film and Television Studies / French
[RW16]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:
Semester 1
FR11900French Language (Non-Beginners)
Semester 2
FR11940French Language (Non-Beginners)
Year 1
Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1
Options
Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take one of the following:
Year 1
Options
Choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Semester 1
EL10000Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
EL10500Introduction to European Film
EL10800Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
FR11100Introduction to French Studies
Semester 2
EL10020Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
EL10520Introduction to European Film
EL10820Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
FR11120Introduction to French Studies
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
FR22100French Language (Intermediate)
Semester 2
FR22140French Language (Intermediate)
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following critical theory modules:
Year 2
Options
Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Semester 1
FR21020Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
FR27020Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
Semester 2
FR27820History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum 40 credits (20 in each semester) from the following modules:
Semester 1
FM21620Writing for Film and Television
FM23820Work in the Film & Television Industries
Year 3
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules (please note that the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits: 20 per semester):
Semester 1
FM31020Screening the Brave New World: film and television in post-war Britain
FM36000Independent Research Project
FM38220Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
Semester 2
FM30020Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain
FM36040Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Semester 1
FR31020Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
FR37020Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
Semester 2
FR37820History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
FM33500Experimental Media Production
Semester 2
FM33540Experimental Media Production
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
