Study Schemes

BA  Film and Television / Mathematics [GW16]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship; The Coleg Incentive Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
MA10510

Algebra

or
MT10510

Algebra

MP10610

Calculus

or
MT10610

Calcwlws

Semester 2
MA11110

Mathematical Analysis

or
MT11110

Dadansoddi Mathemategol

MP11010

Further Algebra and Calculus

or
MT11010

Algebra a Chalcwlws Pellach

Year 1  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FM10120

Studying Film

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

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

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
MA10110

Coordinate and Vector Geometry

MA10310

Probability

MT10110

Geometreg Gyfesurynnol a Fectoraidd

MT10310

Tebygoleg

Semester 2
MA11210

Differential Equations

MA11310

Statistics

MT11210

Hafaliadau Differol

MT11310

Ystadegaeth

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 2
MA21410

Linear Algebra

or
MT21410

Algebra Llinol

MA21510

Complex Analysis

or
MT21510

Dadansoddiad Cymhlyg

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
FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM20420

The Story of 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
FM21620

Writing for Film and Television

FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

FM26520

Creative Documentary

Semester 2
FM20920

Creative Fiction: Horror

FM25420

Creative Studio

Year 2  Options

Choose 40 credits of optional mathematics modules, EITHER from Block A, OR BLOCK B. (BLOCK A listed below):

Semester 1
MA20110

Real Analysis

MA20310

Introduction to Abstract Algebra

MA26010

Distributions and Estimation

MA26600

Applied Statistics

MT20110

Dadansoddiad Real

Semester 2
MA26620

Applied Statistics

Year 2  Options

Choose 40 credits of optional mathematics modules, EITHER from Block A, OR BLOCK B. (BLOCK B listed below):

Semester 1
MA20110

Real Analysis

MA20310

Introduction to Abstract Algebra

MA25200

Introduction to Numerical Analysis and its applications

MT20110

Dadansoddiad Real

MT25200

Cyflwyniad i Ddadansoddiad Rhifiadol a'i Gymwysiadau

Semester 2
MA25220

Introduction to Numerical Analysis and its applications

MA25610

Hydrodynamics 1

MA25710

Advanced Dynamics

MT25220

Cyflwyniad i Ddadansoddiad Rhifiadol a'i Gymwysiadau

MT25610

Hydrodynameg 1

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
FM31020

Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

FM30320

Contemporary TV

FM36040

Independent Research Project

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
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

FM34200

Fiction Film Production

FM37020

Scriptwriting 1

Semester 2
FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM33740

Documentary Production

FM34240

Fiction Film Production

FM37120

Scriptwriting 2

Final Year  Electives

Choose 60 credits (level 3) from mathematics as advised by the department, subject to pre-requisites

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary