BA
Media and Education
[P3X3]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint 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).
Semester 1
ED14520Children's Development and Learning
Semester 2
ED14420Partnerships in Principle and Practice
orAD14420Partneriaethau - Egwyddorion ac Ymarfer
Year 1
Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1
Options
Choose one module (20 credits)
Semester 1
AD13620Sgiliau Allweddol i Brifysgol
ED14620Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years
Semester 2
AD14320Datblygiad Iaith yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar
ED13720Play Matters: Understanding and Supporting Learning and Play
ED14320Language Development in the Early Years
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
ED20120Psychology of Learning and Thinking
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
OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from:
Semester 1
AD20220Llythrennedd Mewn Plant Ifanc
AD24320Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol
ED20420Education, Diversity and Equality
ED24320Safeguarding and Professional Practice
Semester 2
ED20820Making Sense of the Curriculum
ED22420Discourses Language and Education
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
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Options
OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years. You must only take either the AD or the ED module
Semester 2
AD30320Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar
AD34820Datblygiad Emosiynol a Chymdeithasol
ED30320Mathematical Development in the Early Years
ED34820Emotional and Social Development
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
