BA
Media and Theatre Studies
[P3W4]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Options
Choose one of the following
Semester 2
TP11420Site-Specific Performance Project
Year 1
Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1
Options
Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules in their second year.
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 from the following:
Semester 1
TP21220Acting: Process and Performance
Semester 2
TP20820Theatre and Contemporary Society
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:
Semester 1
FM23820Work in the Film & Television Industries
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Semester 2
TP33420Performance and Architecture
TP39020Musical Theatre Dramaturgies
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
TP35520Ensemble Performance Project
TP36000Independent Research Project
Semester 2
TP36040Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):
Semester 1
FM36000Independent Research Project
Semester 2
FM36040Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Semester 1
FM33500Experimental Media Production
Semester 2
FM33540Experimental Media Production
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and TV options:
Semester 1
FM31020Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain
FM38220Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
Semester 2
FM30020Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
