BA Media and History [P3V1]
Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Last intake year is 2023/2024
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
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.
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Rhyfel Cartref America
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Germany since 1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Year 2 Options
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Rhyfel Cartref America
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Science, Religion and Magic
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Germany since 1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
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
Theatre, Film and Television Studies,Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ
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