Study Schemes

BA  Film and Television / Fine Art [WW16]

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

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR11120

Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking

Semester 2
AR11220

Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking

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

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

AH11820

Photography Begins

AR11320

Drawing: Extended Practice

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

AR11420

Painting: Extended Practice

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

Part 2 Rules

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 Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:

Semester 1
AR20120

Painting 1

AR20230

Painting 2

AR20720

Photography 1

AR20830

Photography 2

AR22110

Life Studies 1

AR22320

Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing

AR22430

Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing

AR25320

Interdisciplinary Practice 3

AR29820

Introduction to Design and Illustration 1

AR29930

Introduction to Design and Illustration 2

Semester 2
AR20920

Painting 3

AR21030

Painting 4

AR21620

Photography 3

AR21730

Photography 4

AR21820

Book Illustration 1

AR21930

Book Illustration 2

AR22210

Life Studies 2

AR22520

Printmaking 3: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing

AR22630

Printmaking 4: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing

AR23210

Professional Practice for Students of Art

AR25420

Interdisciplinary Practice 4

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

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Fine Art students must take AR30130 in Semester 2 of the final year

Semester 2
AR30130

Exhibition 1: Graduation Show

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 Fine Art students should select from the following modules for their remaining final year credits:

Semester 1
AR31610

Life Studies 3

AR31730

Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice

AR31930

Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice

AR32130

Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice

AR32330

Book Illustration 3

AR35320

Interdisciplinary Practice 5

Semester 2
AR35420

Interdisciplinary Practice 6

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

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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