BA Theatre and Performance Design / Film and Television Studies [34PW]

Academic Year 2025/2026

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2022/2023

Last intake year is 2023/2024

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
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Semester 1
TP10020

Design in Context

TP19820

Theatre Technologies

Semester 2
TP19920

Theatre Technologies 2

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 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
FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM20420

The Story of Television

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM24420

Art Cinema

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Theatre and Performance Design students must take 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP22320

Principles of Scenography

TP22520

Scenographic Composition

TP22620

Design Project

Semester 2
TP24740

Scenography Production Project

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 Theatre and Performance Design students must take at least one of the following modules. Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take both modules:

Semester 1
TP31240

Advanced Studio Practice (scenography)

Semester 2
TP35940

Advanced Scenographic Project

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Theatre and Performance Design Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take their remaining credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP36000

Independent Research Project

TP33300

Playwriting

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

TP30320

Performance and Disability

TP30020

Contemporary Drama

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP39020

Musical Theatre Dramaturgies

TP36040

Independent Research Project

TP33420

Performance and Architecture

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

FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM30320

Contemporary TV

FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

Final Year Options

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

Semester 1
FM33700

Documentary Production

FM34200

Fiction Film Production

FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM37020

Scriptwriting 1

Semester 2
FM37120

Scriptwriting 2

FM34240

Fiction Film Production

FM33540

Experimental Media Production

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