Study Schemes
BA Media and English Literature [P3Q3]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
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
Year 1 Options
Choose 20 credits
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
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 Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2 Options
Choose 20 credits
Year 2 Options
Choose 20 credits
Classical Drama and Myth
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Place and Self
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits
Undergraduate Dissertation
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Romantic Eroticism
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Undergraduate Dissertation
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
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):
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and TV options:
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ
Tel: Department: +44 (0) 1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Email: tfts@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary