BA
Film and Television
[W620]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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):
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
FM23820Work in the Film & Television Industries
Year 2
Options
Students must take at least 40 credits from the following critical theory modules:
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
FM21620Writing for Film and Television
Year 2
Options
Students may also take:
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
FM31020Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain
FM36000Independent Research Project
FM38220Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
Semester 2
FM30020Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain
FM36040Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Students may take up to 80 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
FM33500Experimental Media Production
Semester 2
FM33540Experimental Media Production
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
