BA Film and Television [W620]

Academic Year 2025/2026

Campus Aberystwyth

Single 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
FM11420

Making Short Films 1

FM10120

Studying Film

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

Year 1 Options

Single Honours Film and TV Studies Students may take up to 60 credits of the following or choose from options outside degree scheme, including Media and Communication Studies (P300):

Semester 1
FM17320

Writing Continuing TV Drama

FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

FM11120

Movements in Film History

FM11240

Making Short Films 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

Year 2 Options

Students must take at least 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

Students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits (20 in each semester) of creative practice modules:

Semester 1
FM26520

Creative Documentary

FM21620

Writing for Film and Television

Semester 2
FM20920

Creative Fiction: Horror

FM25420

Creative Studio

Year 2 Options

Students may also take:

Semester 1
TP22620

Design Project

Final Year Options

Students must take at least 40 credits and may take up to 120 credits from the following modules (please note: 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

Students may take up to 80 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