BA Film and Television / English Literature [QW36]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

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 (60 Credits)

Semester 1
FM10120

Studying Film

Semester 2
FM11520

Making Short Films 1

FM10220

Studying Television

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

Year 1 Options

Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take one of the following:

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

FM11120

Movements in Film History

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

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:

Semester 1
FM20420

The Story of Television

FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM24420

Art Cinema

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

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 creative practice modules:

Semester 1
FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

FM21620

Writing for Film and Television

FM26520

Creative Documentary

Semester 2
FM20920

Creative Fiction: Horror

FM25420

Creative Studio

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

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
FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

FM31020

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

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM30320

Contemporary TV

FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Semester 2
WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM37020

Scriptwriting 1

FM34200

Fiction Film Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

Semester 2
FM34240

Fiction Film Production

FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM37120

Scriptwriting 2

FM33740

Documentary Production

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