BA Film and Television Studies / French [RW16]

Academic Year 2025/2026

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Last intake year is 2023/2024

Duration 4 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
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
FR19900

French Language Advanced

Semester 2
FR12910

Images of France: The French Family

FR19930

French Language Advanced

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
FR10920

Beginners French 1

Semester 2
FR11020

Beginners French 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

Year 1 Options

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11100

Introduction to French Studies

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction to European Film

FR11120

Introduction to French Studies

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

Year 1 Options

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11100

Introduction to French Studies

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction to European Film

FR11120

Introduction to French Studies

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (30 Credits)

Semester 1
FR20100

French Language

Semester 2
FR20130

French Language

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 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 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL20700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

EL20500

Extended Essay Module

FR29110

"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France

FR27020

Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries

FR27820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

Semester 2
FR20310

Language of Business 1

FR21020

Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture

FR26120

Humour and Literature

EL20720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

EL20510

Extended Essay Module

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

During your Year Abroad you must take the following:

Semester 1
FRS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
FRS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

Your compulsory year Abroad modules for Theatre Film and TV

Semester 1
TFS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
TFS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

Semester 1
FR30100

French Language

Semester 2
FR30130

French Language

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

Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL30500

Extended Essay Module

FR37820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

FR37020

Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries

EL30100

Dissertation

FR30310

The Language of Business and Current Affairs

FR39110

"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France

EL30700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

Semester 2
EL30120

Dissertation

FR36120

Humour and Literature

EL30720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

FR31020

Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture

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

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