BA Film and Television / Drama and Theatre [WW64]

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
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

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

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

Semester 1
TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

Semester 2
TP10220

Body, Voice, Expression.

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:

Semester 1
TP23820

New Media Performance

TP25920

Acting for Camera

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP22620

Design Project

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

Semester 2
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

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

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

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

TP30320

Performance and Disability

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Musical Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP36000

Independent Research Project

TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

Semester 2
TP36040

Independent Research Project

TP33340

Playwriting

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

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

Contact for this page:

Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ

Telephone Department: +44 01970 622828 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021

Email: tfts@aber.ac.uk