BA Photography / Film and Television [WW66]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

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 (60 Credits)

Semester 1
FM10120

Studying Film

Semester 2
FM11520

Making Short Films 1

FM10220

Studying Television

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Semester 1
AR11520

Photographic Practice I: Presence/Place

AH11820

Photography Begins

Semester 2
AR11620

Photographic Practice II: Identity/Face

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

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Joint Honours Photography students must take:

Semester 1
AR24320

Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images

Semester 2
AR24420

Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling

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

Year 2 Options

Must take 20 credits

Semester 2
AH24020

Documentary Photography

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

Joint Honours Photography students must take:

Semester 1
AR32130

Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice

Semester 2
AR30130

Exhibition 1: Graduation Show

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