BA Media and Education [P3X3]

Academic Year 2024/2025

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 (40 Credits)

Semester 1
ED14520

Children's Development and Learning

or
AD14520

Datblygiad a Dysgu Plant

Semester 2
ED14420

Partnerships in Principle and Practice

or
AD14420

Partneriaethau - Egwyddorion ac Ymarfer

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

Year 1 Options

Choose one module (20 credits)

Semester 1
AD13620

Sgiliau Allweddol i Brifysgol

ED14620

Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years

ED13620

Key Skills for University

or
AD13620

Sgiliau Allweddol i Brifysgol

Semester 2
ED14320

Language Development

or
AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith

AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith

ED13720

Play and Learning:Theory and Practice

ED14320

Language Development

or
AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 2
FM11520

Making Short Films 1

FM10220

Studying Television

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
ED20120

Psychology of Learning and Thinking

or
AD20120

Seicoleg Dysgu a Meddwl

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
FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

FM22320

Youth Cultures

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

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from:

Semester 1
ED20220

Literacy in Young Children

or
AD20220

Llythrennedd Mewn Plant Ifanc

ED24320

Safeguarding and Professional Practice

or
AD24320

Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol

AD20600

Gweithio Gyda Phlant

AD24320

Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol

AD20220

Llythrennedd Mewn Plant Ifanc

ED20600

Working with Children

or
AD20600

Gweithio Gyda Phlant

ED20420

Education, Diversity and Equality

Semester 2
ED20820

Making Sense of the Curriculum

AD20320

Dulliau Ymchwil

AD20620

Gweithio Gyda Phlant

ED20620

Working with Children

or
AD20620

Gweithio Gyda Phlant

ED22420

Discourses Language and Education

ED20320

Research Methods

or
AD20320

Dulliau Ymchwil

Year 2 Options

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

Semester 1
FM20420

The Story of Television

FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM24420

Art Cinema

Final Year Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
ED30120

Assessment and Education

or
AD30120

Asesu ac Addysg

ED30120

Assessment and Education

or
AD30120

Gwerthuso ac Adlewyrchu ar Sgiliau Dysgu yn Gritigol

Final Year Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years. You must only take either the AD or the ED module

Semester 1
AD30620

Hawliau Plant

AD33600

Traethawd Hir

ED30420

Special Educational Needs

ED30620

Children's Rights

or
AD30620

Hawliau Plant

ED33600

Major dissertation

or
AD33600

Traethawd Hir

Semester 2
AD30320

Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

AD34820

Datblygiad Emosiynol a Chymdeithasol

ED34820

Emotional and Social Development

or
AD34820

Datblygiad Emosiynol a Chymdeithasol

ED33640

Major dissertation

or
AD33640

Traethawd Hir

AD34720

Cyfathrebu

ED34720

Communication

or
AD34720

Cyfathrebu

ED30320

Mathematical Development in the Early Years

or
AD30320

Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

AD33640

Traethawd Hir

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
FM38420

Videogame Theories

FM38320

Gender and the Media

FM36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
FM34120

Media Semiotics

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM31920

Advertising

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
FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

FM31020

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

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

Semester 2
FM30320

Contemporary TV

FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

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